The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-16 00:00:00

AN

EDITOR or THE STATESMAN.

appean by your paper, dist a Jew, of
the name of De Yonge, Is connii‘faii for
trial for his life, on a charge ''of selling the cur-
rent coin of the realm, called Guineas, at a higher
price than the current value." If a emsetry JO/-
dee of Peace, on the charge of an over4eakus
Exciseman, had committed, orfully committed, •
vagrant Jew on such a charge, I should have been
loontewhat surprised; but my astonishment is on.
bounded, when I am told, that the Chief Magis-
trate of the City of London, assisted, as I suppose,
him to have been, by legal advice, at the instant:s-
of the Solicitor to the Mint, should have violated
the personal liberty of a British subject on seas
cobweb imputation. The fact is not hitherto U.
plained, but I suppose it to have been, that the
Jew exchanged his Guineas for Bank Notes—that'
is, he bought Bank Notes instead of sold Gui.
nos,. and for so doing should, if at all, have
been prosecuted by the Solicitor to the Bank,
instead of the Mint. " The very head and
front of his offending" is, that be ventured
to assert practically the position that Batik
paper is new at a discount, a truth, ,which,
though I most powerfully and potently believe,
yet it is not held good that the rascally knaves
should bring to so bold a proof, as abso-
lutely to sell their guineas after the rate of
225. 6d. bank paper.. It is drawing the conclu-
sion tighter than is agreeable to the feelings of
many persons in high situations, and is so much
worse than any argument on the subject, that
there is really no satisfactory mode of meeting the
point, except by hanging the Jew culprit, who, I
hope, has not the impudence to expect to be treat.
ed like a Christian on this occasion. To call him
" circumcised dog, and spit upon his Jewish Ga.
berdine," would, in such a.case, be treating him
too mildly. Ltet him In banged, by all means,,
for, I have said before, that there is no other sa.
tisfadory way of meeting the emergency—there is
nothing between this and the resumption of cash
payments at the Bask I and that is an alterna.
tive, which, under existing circumstances, would be
highly disagreeable. But, Sir,- it has been well
said, that 'the letters directed by prejudice were
not always delivered according to their addresses—
and, I fear, that the zeal of the S,olicitor to the
Mint, has, in this instance, outstepped his judg.
meat. It does not appear that the Jew had clip.
bed the guineas( (though, from the facility with
which he parted with theml, I do not suspect them
to have been very weighty ones), nor is it hinted
that the offence with which he stands charged, bad
any tendency to depreciate the current coin of the
kingdom, unless indeed he considered Ban* notes
NS cash. The simple fact Is, that the Jew bought
Bank notes, just as I buy a house, for as little
Money as may be, and that the Solicitor to tht.
Mint (probably without any 'previous convcrsa-
lion with his friend, the Clerk of the Irons) claps
him into a prison for so doing. Now, I beg
leave to ask, in what way, pions can,ever again
find their way into circulation, but by the mediuln
of some ,operation equivalent to that'' of Mr.'
De Yonge, I mean by bringing to a fair test the,
writs of the two different specks of circulation,
the Metallic and the Papyral. They have their
several excellencies, and separate defects. We
never shall, having experienced the use and abuse
of both, utterly proscribe either; but in order to
avail ourselves of the advantages of both, I believe
we cannot do better than to suffer them to meet
each other fairly in the arena of a public market,
and to stand or fall by their respective- internal
merits. If this doctrine be sound, some man, like
11r. De _Yonge, must open an Office, over the
door of which will be written " Bank Notes
bought and sold here." He cannot long be detain.
ed in prison, and I assure him he may very in.
noccutly and simply buy and sell Bank Notes 8411
freely as any other commodity;. though perhaps
he cannot easily engage in any commerce which
will so much tend to the welfare of every other
branch of it, to his own benefit, and that of the
community at large.

• " ARISTIPPUS."


Yesterday, about halt-past twelve o'clock,
MAJESTIES, and PCDIVISSES AUGUSTA and
ELIZABETH, arrived at the RUBEN'S Palace, from
Windsor. Miss gOLDSAVORTII Y came out, yes-
terday, for the first time, since her severe itidispo.
sition, and was in attendance to pay her respects
to their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES. Thc
Princesses MAny and Soettl4. remain with the
Princess AssaLt4, at Windsor, till to-morrow,
when they are expected in town, to be present at
the drawing-room to be held on Thursday, in ce-
lebration of her MAagsTrs Birth-day.
Yesterday, the Linke of CUMBERLAND
with her MAJESTY.
Yesterday, the Duchess of 'font arrived at
York-House, 'fit. .tamees, froin Oatlands, to
.itlt
dinner.
Yesterday, the Duke, of Sussex completed kis
37th year.
A LEI NT A, COURIE'S or OtIcEINGVAIISUIRE, of
Geosvenor-Place, gave ryeAterday evening a 'grand
entertainment to 'herßoyel Highness* Prim*
of WA LIM, and a great 'Dumber of persons of thy
first distinction.

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