The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-16 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY EVENINO, OCTOBER 16, 1522.
STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
This is settling day in the above Market, and, we un-
derstand, that the account has pissed over, without any
drfaalters. A great operator in English end Foreign
Funds, transferred, out of his name, yesterday, six hun-
dred thousand to the India Company. The above Stock,
it is supposed, had heenlent to him. Consols. are 82i for
Meney s fir the Account. Very little business
doing up to this hone.
Althotsgh yesterday was settling day in the Foreige
Market, and there was a very heavy Account, we du not
hear of any defaulter worth mentioning. The holders
of Spanish Bonds have, we understand, hems the chief
losers in this Acconnt, having sold their Spsnish Stock
to the middling brokers, who, by holding, have gain-
ed considerately. The chief hnsiness this m seeing is in
Kew Spanish Bonds. Another new loan, of a naval de-
scription, is reported on 'Change, but, being of a black
appearance, it may only turn out a hoax. It is called
Boyer's Loan, St. Domingo, of Two Hundred Thousand
Pontids.
Chill. !18--Yew taminleh, 731—01 d. se to Mt—New Prus-
sian, Ygn—Old. 8O —Russia, 90—Dialsb, 91—Nrapolitas.
b4—Coluutbiaa, 95—Peru, 88.

EXTENSIVE FORGERIES.
It was not without reason that we in our paper of the
abet day cautioned our readers against forged Bank-
totes, and implored them to provide themselves with
tome Sovereigns, small as the number might be. The
French have a very good saying ; that each or such a
thing goes to the lfe ; that is to say, puts your very
etistence in jeopardy. This is a case of that sort; for,
many a poor creature that will think him or herself
rah from toe frowned the world in consequence of sap.
posed money deposited in a drawer or a trunk, will
find at leer. that money to lie rags more despicable thatii
those that the. March winds make to rlanee upon the
hark of a Immo,. We have lying before us the Brigitte*
7exette of the Sell of the present month, informing
the
torld that the FIRM. as they call it, of Leditseara and
lloggridge of what they call the Brighton mad Sussex
Bath, will give twenty guineas reward to any person
ho will give them such information as shall be neci r
Airy to bring to justice any person who shall have been es n.
corned with some other persona that they say beta been
attending country fairs, and uttering imitations of their
roe pound notes. They do well to offer Guineas as
,ea aril, or the public might suspect that die recompence
.ould he somewhat resembling these articles which it
ino-ars have been so liberally distributed at the country
fairs. These gentlemen hank-note makers." beg lea
• to inform the public, that they have now thought it
' expedient to limit, notes upon the Siderographic plan
considered inimitable ;" and if the public can be-
le% e them inimitable, aftli all that has taken place;
titer the abortive attempts of a royal commission; after
the Bank of England has expended a hundred thousand
:Ponds in the wild pursuit if the public can now be
live this, where is the bottle conjuror that be does not
one forth again and ride in his coach and six? We al.
lays s...ich that the forgers would fall upon the country
.des as soon as their trade with the Bank of England
me. W:l5 pot a stop to. To be sure, these forgers are
a :elalent met ; and a; such ought to be considered and
i.r. ; btit, when t'le Bath of England has renter-
d the temptmion ; when this torrent of blood has been
topp. d there, is it not a little too much that the temp-
laton shculit be continued to be held out by somany per-
!ons in tin-tent parts of the country. The small-note
tit'. which •as ',aura in July last, and which will be
Teti .lent for the purposes of giving relief to agricul-
re, prolong, for eleven years to come the suspension of
hat wholesome law which was passed in the seventeenth
'ear of the reign of the lwe King to prevent the inis-
ddevous practice of making this miserable paper-money.
Rut we tro,t that P•rliament at its next meeting will put
tn emi to this scandalous dint, and, on the first of May
,ex', ,i.e the curse to lie for ever done away. After all
I.e warning that t'iry have hail, we can hardly say that
we pity the perverse wretches that continueto be instru-
mettal in the work of (rand and of death by taking and
•i re Ailing aniall paper-money. We ourselves, indeed, are
.;•f coiivineed that all paper-money ought to be put an
,i.i! to ; but as to the small-paper, we agree perfectly with
I lie pi r..mhle of the Aet of th• late lisso just mentioned,
ithinst declares it to be an abomination to a civil-
ized stive. Those that are ruined by forgeries hove
themselves only to thank. The country-bankers must
pay them either in sovereigns or Bank of England notes I
Ind as there are now only very few small Hank of Rep
laud notes in circulation, it must be the fault of those
who take the country-notes and keep them or circulate
them. They are entitled to no pity o hatever, however
complete their ruin maybe. The thing, however, must
4.41111 e to an end. There never can remain a law to hang
people for imitating those country-notes. It is a thing
eao shock' mt to be thought of, and we are very sure that
is o ill not be.

HOLY ALLIANCE.
To Ala. CA:VYING.

Slll.—The Morning Chronicle ir, we ob , trou-
bling you a great deal about what shall hr done at the
t'ongress of the Holy Alliance. Pray, Sir, answer the
Marvin.; Chronicle, by telling him to look into his own
paper of the 14th instant, and read these words, "on
• the Brighton road, not far from Reigate, is a notice on
•a largo board, of a form to let, rent free." Bid him
ook at this, Sir, and then say whether those sho have