The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-29 00:00:00

STAITAMAPI

Sir JAMES MACINTOSH then mooed for an
Accoutre of thelserober of Per gintlyntes whicirhart
been detected by the Bank of England dories Ibis
same period. In rookies that motion ha wished to
say a few words as to what bad fallen from his ho-
noorable and Learned Friend. It appeared that the
only result, after six months labour on- the pert of
the Commission, was that they might expect some-
thing from one untried experiment. They were now
in a very different sheath)* from what they conceiv-
ed themeelvos to bo in before. It was conceived that
many means nsi4lit be devised for the diminution of
forgeries ; bat now all their hopes of success rested
otl an experiment which was yet untried. Ile would
add one ohservution which appeared to him of some
importance. The Hoes, would greatly mistake him,
if they thought that he endervaleed the enquiries of
the Commission. Even after the resumption of
Cash Payments, each an Improvement in the con-
itruction of Hank-note as would resider it more
diffirult to Imitate Bank•notev, would be a very
crest improvement. A. the paper which would con.
lione itt circulation after the resumption, would con.
bone to be attacked some time from the baba of
Forgery contracted duties the stoppage of Cash
Payments, it would require all Resasilole improsmonts
lo protect the Public after the, esemptioti. Any Im-
provement, even the slightest, xi:mid therefore be
desirable.

Mr. COURTEN AY said, he meant to state that
the note on which experiments were making, so they
had seen it, was in each a state, that they thought it
already a considerable improvement on the present
note; bet they thought that even that note might be
improved, and that improvement wet 0011 seder es•
iwriment. It was not, therefore, a vague hope which
they had—they had ay. Ay received an advantage.
nos improvement, ber they hoped to reader it still
betteek.
The motion was then azreed to.
41r. GRENFELL wivhed in knew from the Chen.
cello, of the Exchequer, whether the expectation
which he had held oat last year, of paying off the
debt doe by the Public to the Bink, had taken place,
and to what extent it had been paid cff ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, he had hold net an expectation of being able to
repay the Bald' eight millions ; and 6ve millions had
already been paid to the Bank, and three millions
more +field be paid to them oat of the proceeds of
the Supplies.—The Hoses then adjaereed.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS. Jas. 15.
ROYAL ORDINANCES.

"i nail, sre.
" The Sitar Pepin de Belisle, Prefect of Le T)nr.
doom is appointed Prefect of IA Seethe; the Slyer
Seri, Sob-Prefect at Weissemberg. is appointed Pre.
fect of Haut Rbio ; eke Count de Cartels, Prefect of
Heat Rhin, is appointed Prefect of Vest Viewer.;
the Si.er Pantie divot', Master of Memos, la ap-
pointed Prefect of l'Ardectie;.the Coe d'FAtor.
Prefect of Lev iiaseire, is oppoisied veleta of
Ears and Loire.
(Sigsod) 6' 01140Hiei"
The Ake of Cols. Secretary of Stele 4s
suits in any Ministerial Department. 4.4E4'
On the occasion of the anniverseryitlithe 2lst
y, his Majesty has portioned smolt indivirleala
doubled at Paris es different coovietioes, of whleh
See were for seditious expressions.
General Esceitosos is strived at Paris.
The Boron Briton, Banker, and Director of the
Theatre et Vienna, has stopped payment. As this
is a very eminent hoes., the Austrian Government
has permitted him to dispose of the Theatre by lot-
tery. The number of Tickets will be 200,000.
There prevails at Petershorgli, is also at Stock-
`holm, a teasperatere so mild, that the oldest hobbit.
ants can remember no *sample of it. Several trees
and shrubs pet forth leaves, and even flowers, at
i Christmas; bet the ward of snow end lee, in de-
priving commerce, the mines, and agricaltere of their
seesl wens of carriage, throws a great gloom over
the industries classes. The lazy citizen aeon com-
plains of the weather, as it prermits,him from enjoy-
ing the diversion of his sledge.
The Russian Government ref ts.% to purchase the
ingots of gold and silver et the exorbitant price re.
Attired for them by the Englith,4so that these specs-
labors most take the. to some er market.
The new system of Costoms lablished in Prsisis
is enforced with a degree of rigour which i,,the cause
of general complaint. For some weeks towards
the end of last year, the,gates of the city ofManster
were shut ; nog while eat isordioary patrols traversed
the city, geoaretes sod doesoiers occupied them-
selves in searching the esgrchants' stores, grassries,
6e., and ma Orate helms, is ordecte *lodine-
eerie
French Fonds. Jan. 23.-5 per Cents. OM. 50e.
MAOIIIO. JAS. 12.--4osters from Veleocie male,
that a ctkilir ey having been formed there against
Gen. Esiomir. Governer of the Province, he went li
with a force to arrest tho caospirstors, among whom
were some Officers, whet' one of them#rew a poniard,
end striking at the General, wounded Mein the arm ;
the General rsehissasitilant throogle t!he hotly with
his sword, sod lir expired on the spot.
The General of Cordeliers, the Reverend Father
Gyring, has received orders to quit the capitsi. Be
came frost Brasil at the same time as the late (leers.
There are several conjectares as to the claw of this
&grace. There are upwards of 40,0001160 kt, of
whom he is nearly the absolute chief.
Seseral Monks are stated to have joined the armed
buds in the Sierra Morena.
It is said that Don Pedro Cevailos will, for the
meth or seventh time, be recalled to the Ministry for
Foreign Afalrs.
' CHRISTIANIA, JAN. 6 —We leers from Genes-
burgh, that there was never so many whales mew on
that coast as at this monseitt. Their appearance is it-
tribetehle to a reveletios of the polar lees.
Stesoaeo. Jan. 10.—Strange, and we may trelT
add. very idle reports are beginninete be spread at
Sratgard respecting the death of the late Queue. A
certain somnambulist who bad foretold thedeath of
the King's f.ther had able, it seems, predicted that
of the Q•ieen, ditharine. A peasant toe, we are
told; had some limo since reqeested 'disiill. to the
I palace, in order to commeakat• aeraethief which

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had been paled to hint by a fort d litsprilitial
aid oft -being pressed to teil whet it was. be an-
ofsoaced, wish, an air of groat coolidence, that ll*
Usesin wowld very shortly die. The fleceave of leer
Majesty following very soon afterwards, the peasant
hasb, it seems, been errested, in order to be gees-
'boned ahnit the grounds of his former prediction.
But perhaps the most silly of all the queer thing'
I 'final nu the subject iv, that the representation of a
thostrical piece, called I; Adler de Diane, lied been
for a long time !flooded by the Court of Willow.
berg as a sinister augur); that it had in conic-
qnence been prohibited by the late King, bat had
been lately revived, and wasocleally the last piece at
which the departed Queen was primal!—When will
the age of marvels have an end!

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TM? 'STATESMAN.

LONDON:
JANUARY 20, 1819.

In the Howe of Lords, last night, nothing of im-
portance occurred, ezeept an intimation from Lord
Ltvaartsoz, in answer to ■ question horn Lord
Hozsass, that on or before Tuesday nest the
Treaties alluded to in the Speech of the Lords Corn.
missionery would be laid before Parliament. In the
House of Commons Mr. BENNE-rr, In ennsequence of
pretesting a Petition from en inilisideal, who com-
plained of the sondoct of a Magistrote in 'erasing a
licence to his public-house, gave notice that he woold,
sport an early occasion, propose a Bill for better
regeleting the power of Magistrates in granting or
removing licences. That most interesting topic, the
prevention for Bank Forgeries, was again intro.
deceit by Sir JAHNS MACINTOSH, who moved for a
velure of the number of its victims from the 10th of
April, 1818, to the 28th of January, 1819, distio-
geishing the number convicted for each offence; also
those convicted of having Forged Bank-notes in their
possession, distiaesishing those convicted of hasieg In
their possession Forged Notes purporting to be for 51.
and upwards. Re missed his motion by a speech of
some length, commenting upon the Report of the
Commissioners; observing, that the only chance held
out by then for the preventiou of Forgery depended
spots the success of an untried esperiment. Mr.
Cotorrawae replied, and observed, that the Coo.
rolasioners had sanguine hopes of suree•s from the
adoption of the plan they bad recommended, which
they also thought might be still further improved, by
bating combined with it the properties of some of
the other plans that had been submitted to their
consideration. In answer to a question front Mr.
TITINIST, it HIS observed by Mr. COURTINAY,
that a specimen of the Bank.note wbich they would
recommend for adoption would be ready for losper..l
ties in the coarse of a month. Mr. Menem°, on
the pert of the Bank, signified their readiness to stlopi
• any alteration in the fabric of their notes that
might tend to render the crime of Forgery more
dilicurt. No opposition toss snarl* to the mitten.
The discussion was interesting in many points of
view, and tended at lest', by the moderate sod jedi•
does declaration of the Member for Easter, to elley
the growing impatience cf the Public ler two or

three weeks at limit, till tb. prestige(' eeperiesmit
shall bat ttild of " dimiliighing the facilities of
Forging flink.nntes."—Tais is all Oak* most
cling:eine of the advocates for Abe contingence of the
BA,,k Rpsiticiion can fairly torogaisi, or the most
credulous of thy Public believe. For a man, or men,
to do that which cannot be imitated, Is a solecism in
h words. To render the temptation to the crime less
,powerful will be gemethinz—bat Is cetera le cash
payments will be every thing.

Mr. BExstrr perseveres in enquiring into Prima
Abs...; and, notwithstanding the obsorvatious of Sir
T. H. MARTIN, the other day, and tho sneers Mi.
nlsterial Advocates ever Once, guys Ro46*, on Wed.
nesday,of a Motion he should make on Tuesday se's-
night, which would embrace the state of Convicts on
board all the different kind of prise* ships, mad
bring, of course, spin to sbe consideratioo of the
110060 of COIRIRINI9, the conlinenteot •f thews+ who
are in transports censisrvii to New Signs Wales.
The statements exhibited by Admiral. Masotti, ow
which the Courier indulges his unenviable triampb,
and "grins horribly, a ghastly mils," Provo ■o.
thing more titan that certain Accommodations are 4.
rested to be mods for the Cassias; but while the,
show that tom Convicts only are Intended to oocopy
each crib, they do oat deny that all ant *fate soloedy
crammed into them. If any gimo umber of Cos.
tints be 'flowed, as has boos styled, more emote than
en equal amber of stases, the dilerooso between
tb• span occupied by swami hammocks aid by crib*,
is not computed io the calcolatiou ; sod if cribs OM
end by soldiers, of as close restraint us those of Co*.
alms, the liberty which soldiers eej•y of accomumso
dating each other in who am of them, us well as ilf
obtainiog relief and eats by other moses, is, ie the
c-s. of Convicts, totally inapplicable, and not to he
attained.

Yet, much Importune. is attached to this compe-
ri.on ; end mach controlt is derived by the Courier
from the consideration that be the restraints or pri-
vations whate►er they may be, no complaint is ever
made by soldiers oboist their accommodation in

transports. No ! Soldiers hare bees 100 long under
training to be querulous. They are well and strictly
disciplioed, without cessation, mud *reap tar appro.
head that though their actual condition were Nene,
it might perhaps be rather worse then better, if they
centered to complain of it—in a troy that might be
heard. They, besides, have leaders, •ho are east_
pelted to be carers!, while watchful, of them, as
shepherds watch ever their flock ! Set the Gimlets,
alas ! ate set • duck ; they are merely • herd
ilieyf owned by none—they ere watched by erree,
eseept Ste parsons who are leading them--eedilfhlb.
ing the 4 not to pular*, 4th penlahmemL laeor
ere p reed merely es • bard of indium behest,
of swine bite which the devils bad entered, 'Why
whom they had been driven into the sea. It is nate-
ral therefore to egret that missile of this descrip•
lien will squeak when sharply leeched. If they
wily chance to me the Witcher or his steel, b week!
mem et if the bee bad entered their hearts. " Whet
a confounded noise do yea make &beat holtieg!”
says the man who thinks of ',ethics Pecept the market
of his hogs. " See the pretty sheep, there! bow
qaielly they Ile, though their legs be tied together !
They don't cry, set they, eves what they are g.log
to be killed."

I. a paragraph of last eight's (eerier, which ae..
knowledge', like the ding of Paussta's satirising
friend, the receipt of certain stripes that bad bees
hestowed open the writers for their remarks so slat
they termed " the maudlin details of hardships to
which felons are exposed," these Geetbuses at-
tempt to vindicate themselves from the Aeries of
prrverereess and malignity, by referring in a sly,
half•stllßed lone of triumph, to an estract frees the
Report of the Select Committee on Transportation,
presented to the Ream of COOII3IOUS, in July, ISM.
Few anti slight, however, erode grounds which this
garbled document affords for their vindicatiee. In
comparison with the treatment of convicts in previ-
ous times, ohms 385 eat of 3833 are stated to ban
died on teerd of transports, " being seedy etas
ten," the system which prevailed at the period when
the Committee was appointed, appeared to AIM es.
objectionable. Bet the vale. of the testimony which
they bring forward as eencleske evidence in their fa.
veer, the writers of the Courier lake sassiest at the
same time in such a manner to reduce, as to make it
weigh but little. Either from 66 'eremite/as" sr
" malignity," because Sir SAISOLL ROISILLT
Chairmen of the Committee, they think proper to
soars to env of the allegations of the Report the
following note :••••••• This was a mistake of the Com-
mittee."—%Vbst a specimen of the lodgment of 1111,
Courkr ! What consistency, is adducing and ie.
vendetta; the authority of their document ! What
staff as proof sad argument they know their steal
readers can be made to swalloot

Paris Pipers to the 2Gth bate been eiteilvid. The
rimoar of the indisposition of the Qaten of Swtovs
is contradicted. General Exclusamq, one of the
Elites, availing himself of the King's cleviritry, hat
arrived at Paris. The Duke of GLaucCITZI is timi-
dity visited Mos,' Era, and la the et.niag was st a
party at the residence the Dike DE DUSAN the
King's Gra( Gentleman of (I'2 Chamber. The nIF
of Sub•3ecc:tery of `ov't ou lorget esiits in au)