The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-01 00:00:00

1.0N1)0N, THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1820.

" The Cootie fur which 11.4:1:1'1)1.,..".. in the Fiitd, and SYDNEY died on the Scaffold!"

EAST I.:DIA 1101 NE. Miry AO. 11410.
THE Court of bireetoro of the Coiled rots-
patty of Merehoots qf England. trading lo the KM
lodic's. do Arreby girt. .\otiee.
That, with reference to the Resolution of the Oenetral
Court of the 41 Is of Febriiir. ISlth upon the Vote of Thank'
to Lieut.-General Sir TAioisal 8.. certain
papers which have been n grit rd from Hain. in further ex-1
Nutrition of the eireum.ta,wes respecting the esectition of
the killeder of the Fort Tnineir. %%la be lnia iwtore the
vaarterly Renewal Court 1.1 the said rolopany appointed to
be held on Wednesday. the 31• t of June tick!: mad ts.ni the
Papers are now open nt Iloo•o for Diu prin.ul of
tlw Proprietor+. JOSEPH DART. Secretur%.

custody, although he had done no more than obey an
order of that House, of which Mr. Burton was then a
Member. He was n happy to inform the House,
that the action was now withdrawn, and the parties
who brought it, full• conscious of the impropriety of
their condnct, wished to throw themselves on the mercy
of the House. He therefore should move to discharge
the order for the at►endance of those parties on Mon-
day nest, and put off the same until Aonday week.
The order was discharged accordingly, and the par-
ties ordered to attend on Monday se'nnight.
A persons from the Penitentiary at Milbank appear-
ed at the bar, and presented several accounts.
Sir Wst. Cm•e.Tts gave notice, that on Wednesday
rest he should move for leave t bring in a Bill for the
regulution of the gaols of the City of London.
The House went into a Committee on the Greenland
Fishery Acts, and agreed to certain resolutions for
rontinuinl the same.—The report to be brought up

I.IIPEItIa P AU!. IA i/ EA'

HOUSF: OF LORDS, WLDNI.SDAT. MAT 31.

Lord !Huai.° tool; the oaths and his seat.

AOKICULTURA L fIIKSS.—Lord NAPIEI
presented two petitions from occupiers of land in lie:-
wick, praying fur Legislative tend.
Lord Hita.siononott presented a similar petition,
siellal by a number of land-owne,s resident in the
county of Kildare, Ireland, convened in public meet-
ing by the High Sheriff. Ilis Lordship stated, that
he presented this peti!ion iu the alisenee of a Solite
Duke (Lvinstrr), whose habit of residing on his esi ate
was as honourable to himself as it was useful to his
country. Ile observed, that the petitioners did not
pray for any new pinciple of relief, but complained
of the low prices which agricultural produce brought
in the markets, and the insperfect execution of the
Corn 1. aws, for which they stated as a reason, the in-
adequate manner in which the average priers of tort
were calculated throughout the eimatry. In !:raying
for that protection which they felt their situatiim re-
quired, they did not, however, asii Parliament to con-
sider Ow subject separately from the several intere-ts
and public pH"' of the enipire.--Ortiereil to lie on
the table.

PUNDINO OP BXCHRQUER BILLS.—The
Listrrimiata of the Exeertsi•Ea said, he wished to
asks the earliest opportunity of stating to Parliament
the contract which hail been entered into that day with
certain holders of Exchequer Bills, and of which three
days notice had been given to the public.. Ile should
therefore move the Order of the Hay, for the Howie to
resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and Means.
The !souse res dyed itself into a Committee accord-
InflY•
'I he Citaxcettos of the EXI'IIrQI7EN then addressed
the C 4444 matter. He could not state the transaction in
question sooner than this day ; nor could he even have
forekeen that it would have been in his power to do it
so soon, as he did not expect it would have been so
s-ton completed. The contract, however, having been
' made, he should, ac.-ording to the usual practice, give
an account of it to the Committee ; and he was antis-
th..y would most readily ratify what the Trea-
sury hail done. The general terms of the bargain
were these :--A notice had been gken un Friday last,
that a sabscription would be opened for the purpose of
funding seven millions of the Exchequer Bills that
were now outstanding, and which amounted to more
than :IS millions ; anti this snm, added to the unfund-
ed debt of Ireland, made the whole outstanding debt
of the United Kingdom amount to thirty-nine millions.
The amount was now less by nine millions than the
amount of those that were outstanding at the c,rre-
sponding period of last yea-. 1111 the thirty-live mil-
lions of Exchequer Bills issned for the service of
Great Britain, fourteen millions were in the possession
of the Bank of England, and so there remained about
twenty-one million, in the hands of the publk. As it
was ittteudesl that a !mon to a certain amount should
be made, it was considered that the heat mode would
be brit to call in seven minions of the outstanding
V% tad convert like sem Into stock. On

Messrs. Fane, Cooper, Loinitrr, Cartwright, Mun-
dy, aml Stewart Wortley, severally brought up Pri-
vate Bill• from the Commons, accompanied by uther
Members.

Mr. Bros/den and others returned tlr• rhil List Bill,
with the c uii nrrenee of the Commons to their Lord-
ships' amendment.—.ldjottrnell.

HOUSE OF CONIMONS. WsoscsoAv, MA% 31.

Mr. IVihnta gave notice, that on Friday, the 9th
of June, he would wove the gerund mailing of the Col-
chester Sessions Kill.-1 hr second reading was or-
dered for that day acconlingly.
Sir E. KN AT1'11111:LI• hr gut up a Bill to prevent
frauds in the sale of coals on the river Tnatnes.--Itead
a first time.
Dltogrfieda Election Petition was put off till the

PRICE SEVEN PEN( R.

vacuum caused by the funding of the Exchequer Bills,
by the Exchequer Bills which were voted last year,
and which it was said would have been applied to the
service of the present year. The question of his
Hon. Friend was quite clear, and, he apprehended.
capable of in explicit answer. With respect to the con-
fusion said to have taken place at the Bank that nor► -
ing, he regretted very much that it should have Lskell
place. The effect of it was, that the hien :s of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, be believed, were the successful
applicants.
lhe CUANCIILLOR of the EXCHeQUeR declared him-
self ignorant of any confusion or tumult having taken
place at the Bank. It was known to the House that
the terms of the transaction were known to the public
since Friday last, and all persons had an equal oppor-
tunity of presenting themselves. The whole was con-
ducted with the utmost fairness, and he believed he
could not give the House a stronger assurance that it
was So, than by stating that the Bank Directors had
the management of it. With regard to thP issuing of
new Exchequer Bills, th.• Right Hon. Gentleman ap-
prehended that the Hon. Member was led into a Mis-
conception regarding them by coutouuding two sepa-
rate sums, which, Lough very distinct in themselves,
h'►ppeued to be of the same amount. Upon the whole,
the amount of Exchequer Bills outstanding and un-
provided fur, for the preseet year, would be less by ten
millions and a half than the ailment of those in the
preceding year.
Mr. MARCRLY wished to know from the Right Hon.
Gentleman what amount of Exchequer Bills voted for
the service of the year lA9 remained unsold on tit
sth of January, 1820. The answer to this questio:,
by showing the amount of the Eichequer llills app.. i
to the service of the former ye.:r, would enable the.
House to judge what amount of these Bills would L•t
necessary for the service of the next year. The Ho::.
Member then stated the whole quantily of Exchequer
Bills which remained outstanding an& unprovided for.
In addition to all this, the Right Hon. Gentleman had
received from the Bank the rest of the Land and Matt
Tax in advance for the year ; sod, if report said truly,
the Bank was not yet paid the five millions which it
was proposed last year to have paid to them. But the
Right Hon. Gentleman had said, that the Exchequer
Bills were sent on the Consolidated Fund. He (Mr,
Maberly) hail imagined that it was intended to give.
the public the heoelit of the balances in the bands oi
the Bank. But it appeared that this anticipation ea.
not to be realized. It was time that the Right Hon.
Gentleman should become sensible to the extreme dan-
ger of allowing deficiencies to occur in the Consolidated
Fund in each succeeding quarter. If the revenue of
the current quarter, which as yet was considerable i❑
arrear, did not increase, he believed it would be neces-
sary to borrow in July sum of 2,000,1t0tt1, to make
good the deficiency ; this amount would swell the de-
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