On the fifth of March, on the motion for reading the bill a fecond time in the Houfe of Lords, Lord King called on every noble Lord connected with Ireland to lay before the House their perfonal information with respect to the ftate of that country. Bank paper, it was notorious, was depreciated ten per cent, and was falling every day into more difcredit. This was proved by the conduct of the King's officers, who were paid at par in England, and confequently thewed the eitimation in which they held their own paper. Of this depreciation the quantity of paper iffued by the Bank is the caufe; and this arose from the natural check on improper iffues having been removed: for being no longer under the controul of a demand for cafh, they naturally iffued paper to the utmost extent, that their profits might be increased. In their private characters, the Bank directors were unimpeached; but in their public character they were extremely reprehenfible for the excefs of the iffue. Every man in Ireland, who received a hundred pounds, was robbed by the operation of that excels of ten pounds, whilft the Bank proprietors were the only gainers by the fyftem. The evil could be remedied only by making the notes of the banks of England and Ireland convertible; but the Houfe fhould confider the terrible ftate of the poor in Ireland, refulting from the excess of notes, which had occafioned fe many forgeries.

Lord Grenville complimented Lord King on the talents he had difplayed in this intricate queftion; and with fome afperity remarked on the denial of papers, for which he had moved on a former day, and which would have thrown light upon the prefent bulineis. Since 1797 he obferved the iRues of the Bank of England had been doubled, thofe of Ireland quintupled; and if he was confidered as inconfiftent in refifting a meafure for which he had once been a promoter, he should reply, that peculiar circumstances then called for it; but it did not follow, that what he approved in time of war for a fhort duration, he was to fupport in time of peace, and for ever after. Indeed, from having feen the evil of the measure, which was increating, he was the more bound to recommend

the repeal of it, and should not shrink from his duty, from a dread of the imputation of inconfiftency.

It has been faid, that fince the Bank of England Restriction Bill has paffed, this must be pailed too. This was too true; but it was really an argument only for revewing the whole of the measure. Ruin is threatened by the prefent fyftem of circulation. A great writer had obferved, that there were two forts of paper, the one of the great dealers, the other by which the consumer bought of the fmall dealer. If the latter is prevalent, and the country is invaded, the danger is very alarming, and the evil may be catily imagined from the run on the Newcastle banks upon the mere alarm of invasion. In the prefent instance also, the disadvantage was not only very great to merchants, but in common life the depre ciation acted as a diminution of income, while it enhanced the price of every commodity. Thus diffatisfaction and penury increased the evils under which Ireland labours.

His Lordfhip recommended a gradual taking off of the restriction on the bank, fo that after full and due notice the cash payments might be gradually refumed. The one pound notes might be called in within three months; after a certain interval, the two pound notes, and fo on: but these were only hints for a general committee of enquiry, which he mott ftrenuously recommended.

Lord Hawkesbury was of opinion, that a general committee of enquiry would produce an injurious rather than a beneficial effect, and that reftrictions on the banks in the prefent ftate of affairs was abfolutely neceffary. He denied that the circulation of paper tended to drive the coin out of the country, the fcarcity of which arofe from other circumftances; the years of fcarcity and the loans. The war alfo kept much bullion abroad, which, to his knowledge, was in ftore to be conveyed home whenever circumftances admitted. Some obfervations were made on Lord Grenville's speech on the probability of invation, which concluded in the neceflity of continuing the fame restriction in Ireland as prevailed in England.

LordCaernarvon contended, that the reftriction was a temporary measure, not to be continued but upon fufficient evidence of its neceffity; and, as it

was clear that it had not obtained the end of keeping the cash in the kingdom, that end would certainly not be anfwered till the Bank of England refumed its payments. Lord Aukland Considered the prefent ftate of the bank as a folecifm in finance, yet he did not fee how the restriction could be taken off from the Irith, whilft it remained on the English bank. Lord Carysfort declared the incomes of the people of Ireland to be diminished ten per cent; and when the evil was generally acknowledged, it was not to act like a ftate finan to continue it, in ftead of endeavouring to remedy the diforder.

The Lord Chancellor admitted that there was great weight in the arguments for removing the reftriction, and brought, as an inftance of the great credit exifting among mercantile men, the eafe with which two thousand pounds might be raised on their notes, and the trouble attending the raifing of the fame fum on landed fecurity. The difcuffion on thefe fubjects he conceived to be ufeful. The reftriction was an evil ori

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On the fixth of March the House of Lords refolved itself into a committee on the bill, when Lord Aukland des clared his opinion for a limitation to the fue of bank paper, which he doubted not was the principal cause of the great depreciation of the currency, Lord Hawkesbury was averfe to the enquiry on deprecation at present. Lord King was for introducing a claufe on the recovery of cofts in actions brought against the bank directors, which arofe from fome conduct in the cours of law in Ireland, or which Lord Carleton declared that he had never heard; and Lord Kug, on the fuggeftion of the Chancellor, withdrew his claufe, but endeavoured to intro duce another to limit the iffue of the paper, which was refifted, and, at last, negatived: and the bill, on fubfequent days, went through the regular tages without any material information or alteration.

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