Kearsley G. Fleet st. bookseller, Aug. 25

Kirkham J. Acre Farm, Aug. 15 Kirkman Gower street, builder, Sept. 19

Kirkpatrick J. Liverpool, merchant, Aug. 31

Knowles & Lawyer, Sheffield,

merchants, Aug. 19

Lenter J. Dondon, dealer, Aug.15 Mercer T. Tonbridge, banker, Sept. 15

Moore, Foster, and Tenant, flax spinners, Sept. 14 Mowbray, Hollingsworth, Wetherell, Shields, and Boulton, Durham, bankers, Aug. 29 Munt & Adams, Leadenhall str. hatters, Sept. 5

Nash R. Kingston-on-Thames, seed crusher, Sept. 26 Nicholls T. jun. Bradford, linen. draper, Aug. £5

Parsons J. Harwich, fishing

smack owner, Sept. 5 Pattison D. Carlisle, brewer, Sept.

10

Pfeill & Van Voorst, Bishops

gate Within, wine merchants Aug. 11

Pemberton J. H. Liverpool, mer

chant, Sept. 16

Penny G. Throgmorton court, Sept. 5

Perkins E. Liverpool, batter, Sept. 8

Picksford T. Shrewsbury, mercer, Sept. 7

Pollock J. K. North Shields, bookseller, Aug. 18

Price J. Bristol, ironmonger, Oct. 1

Proctor & Besser, Steyning lane, cloth factors, Aug. 29 Radfield G. S. Shields, ship builder, Aug. 17

Ready S. Southampton, dealer,
Sept. 22

Rose J. V. Cambridge, brush
maker, Aug. 17
Russell T. Beverley, victualler,
Sept. S

Saies J. Milford, grocer, Aug. 24
Saies W. Milford, shopkeeper,
Aug. 24

Strayle T. Bordesley, tanner, Sept. 4 [Sept. 2 Sherwood W. S. Liverpool, joiner, Stanley and Weston, Thames str. ironmongers, Sept. 4

Stroud B. Poole, linen draper, Aug. 25

Swainson J. East Smithfield,Sep 3 Sykes & Baker, Leeds, dyers,

ASHLEY W. Goswell str. laceman, Aug. 18 Aspinall J. Curtain road, stone mason, Aug. 18 Baker J. L. & G. Leeds, mer

chants, Sept. 5 Bartlett J. jun. Beckington,

dyer, Aug. 25

Batley C. Spread Eagle yard, stable keeper, Aug. 29

CERTIFICATES.

Benson J. Birmingham, pocket book maker, Aug. 15 Boardman J. Liverpool,merchant, Aug. 18 [Aug. 29 Brampton S. Hackel, limeburner, Brown W. A. College Hill, merchant, Aug. 18

Carr T. Oxford, grocer, Aug. 18 Cole R. King st. Holborn, coạch maker, Aug. 15

Cotsford T. Clapton, plumber, Sept. 1,

Coulter J. Chatham, carpenter, Aug. 15

Fairlamb J. Wynyatt st. Goswell st. Persian manufacturer, Aug. 25 Forder W. Basingstoke, coach proprietor, Aug 15 French S. Merriott, miller, Aug.25 Gunston J. Percival st. cheesemonger, Aug. 25

Aug. 15

chant, Aug. 18

Sept. 1

Rose J. W. Bishopsgate str. silk

mercer, Sept. 8

Sadd J. Greystoke place, Fetter

lane, Sept. 5

Samsum J. Cree Church lane,

victualler, Aug. 15

Sharland R. Exeter, sadler, Aug.

18

Shaw R. H. Liverpool, merchant,

Aug. 15

Simonds E. jun. Atherstone, hat

maker, Sept. 5

Smith W. J. Birmingham, victualler, Aug 15

Solomon A. & D. Threadneedle st. merchants, Aug. 18

baker, Aug. 15

Tilt W. St. Paul's Church yard, confectioner, Aug. 15

Walker J. Shoreditch, broker, Sept. 1

Walter J. Bath, cabinet maker, Aug. 29

Walworth T. Stockport, manufacturer, Aug. 18

Webb R.Winslow, Herefordshire, farmer, Aug. 18 [Aug. 29 Wilmot C. Cheltenham, builder, Wilson R. Liverpool, farrier,

Aug. 29

Wingfield J. Long lane, West Smithfield, sadler, Aug. 25 Wright W. Bristol, vender of medicine, Aug. 29

Days.

Navy.

1818

DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM JULY 25, TO AUGUST 25, 1818, BOTH INCLUSIVE.

Bank Stock. Redu. Cons. Cons. Cons.

j3 per Ct 3 per Ct, 3 pr Ct 4 perCt. 5 per Ct | Long Imp. Imp.

Anns. 3 per C Anns. Omnium.

India Stock.

So. Sea O.S.S. New S. Stock. Anns. Sea An.

4 per Ct. Ind. Bon.

July 25

78 774 88

97

dis.

95

27

78773 77 763 98

97

106 1053

20

dis.

94

94 pm. 19 95 pm. 19

28276 276 77 76 7873

96

1053

201

dis. 232

19

29

77 78 76277 98,

96

97 105

201

76

dis.

92

93 pm.19

20 pm. 21 21 pm. 19

30

78 77

77 763 884

97

106 105

20

1 dis.

94

93 pm. 19

21 pm. 19

Ex. Bills. 2d per Day 2

21 pm. 20 21 pm 19

Ex. Bills. Consuls per Day for Ac. 21 pm. 773 21 pm. 77 19 pm. 763771 21 pm. 77 21 pm. 77

21 pm. 19

20 pm.771

91

pm. 18

20 pm. 19

20 pm. 77

་

3

77

88

97

202

dis.

20

All Exchequer Bills dated prior to the mouth of June, 1817, have been advertised to be paid off, and the Interest thereon has ceased.

N. B. The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices, taken from the Course of the Exchange, &c, originally published by John Castaign, in the year 1712, and now published, every Tuesday and Friday, under the authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, by

JAMES WETENIALL, Stock-Broker, Angel court, Throgmorton-street, London, On application to whom the original documents for near a century past may be read.

PUBLIC attention will be soon attracted to the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, where the relative interests of the great family of nations will undergo a minute, and, as we trust, a liberal investigation. Preparatory to the meeting of this assembly, and certainly with a view to its proceedings, a state paper of weighty import has made its appearance in some of the foreign journals, from which it is evident that one object of deliberation will be the posture of affairs in South America. The right of the allied sovereigns, however, to meddle in this concern will be called in question by those political witlings who, in their profundity of conceit, deem themselves competent to lay down rules for the conduct of government, upon abstract principles, adapted by a very convenient flexible morality to the support of their own prejudices. We shall probably be told, that such an interposition is a breach of the natural law, which gives to remote colonies the privilege of asserting their independance when they no longer have any inducement to obey the parent state. The example of North America will no doubt here be brought under review; but unfortunately for the advocates of misrule, there is no analogy in the circumstances of the two great divisions of the western continent, because the plea of resistance to a new and arbitrary import is wanting to make up the parallel. The present insurrection is destructive of the bonds by which all political societies are held together, for it rests upon no ostensible grounds of complaint to warrant total separation, nor has it any definite object compatible with the general security. It is, therefore, neither better nor worse than anarchy in the wildest form, which all states liable to be affected by it are bound, for their own safety, to extinguish. In North America, however, this convulsion is contemplated with exultation, and the restless spirits of that republic already look upon the Spanish provinces with the eye of the vulture, that from her ærie in the mountain cliff beholds the wide-spreading scenes of death on the plain below, as furnishing prey for herself and her ravenous nestlings.

But there are also many in our own land who regard this state of things with the mean feeling of selfish policy, imagining that the wealth of Peru and Mexico may become ours by taking an open part with

[Sept. 1,

the insurgents of the South, as the ministers of Louis XVI. did with those of North America. They who so reckon, however, upon the lucrative advantages likely to result from such a sinister course, have not taken into the account the extent of the example which they would recommend, nor considered that France for her kindness imported the seeds of a revolution which has poisoned the morals and happiness of her people for generations, and stained her annals for ever. Let Britain, therefore, beware how she makes such a sacrifice of principle for temporary benefits. Honesty is the best policy for states as well as individuals; and there never yet was the nation that gained ultimately either power or credit by a deviation from it. Even allowing the cause of the patriots in South America to be just, it is our duty and interest to maintain a strict neutrality, lest by countenancing revolt in those shores the contagion should be wafted across the great Pacific Ocean, and destroy the British empire in the east. We trust, therefore, that the declaration of the court of Madrid will have its desired effect upon the counsels of the royal and imperial assembly, who, by their resolution and moderation, may do much towards allaying the animosity of nations, restraining the cupidity of the ambitious, and checking the infectious spirit of revolution. By determining to give no countenance to the insurgents, and endeavouring to effect a reconciliation upon liberal principles, the allied powers will set a brilliant example to all nations, while they, in fact, are strengthening the securities of their respective dominions. Another important result of such a course will be the fixing a bound to the inordinate ambition and thirst of contest which manifests itself already in the gigantic republic of the western world; and which, if not limited in time by the ancient governments, will, at no very distant period, succeed in establishing colonies on the different coasts of the Atlantic, the Indian seas, and the Mediterranean.、

The following is the Memorial which has given rise to these reflections:"Note addressed on the 12th of June last to the High Allied Powers, by the Cabinet of Madrid, relative to the situation of South America.

1818.]

the seeds of revolution in Spanish South America, and caused the most deplorable efforts to be exerted to separate our subjects from their legitimate sovereign, his Catholic Majesty made the following principles the invariable rule of his conduct:-First, to employ all the means which human wisdom could suggest, to recal the misled to the path of order and obedience; and secondly, to have recourse to diplomatic negociation for political means of accomplishing this desire. The revolutionary enfranchisement of South America, or its return to legitimate authority, presents, indeed, considerations of so much importance, in a political point of view, as to render it necessary that the eyes of Europe should be turned to events which may introduce a new order of things into the scale of its political and commercial relations.

"The united efforts of the principal European powers have already defeated this disastrous system which nurtured the American revolution; but it still remains for them to annihilate this system in America itself, where its effects are of the most alarming nature.

"His Catholic Majesty having never lost sight of the two principles just stated, and being always animated with a desire of putting a period to the effusion of blood and devastations, which are the deplorable consequences of a war of this nature, only waited an occasion to call the attention of the High Allied Powers to an object which has already been at different times the subject of different notes addressed to them, and recently of the negociations opened in so amicable a manner with his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Great Britain.

"The insurrection of Pernambuco made a sensible impression upon the mind of his Catholic Majesty, and at the moment when he wished to recommend this event to the attention of the Sovereigns, his allies, it was necessary to demonstrate his connexion with the general interests.

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"His Majesty received the answers of his High Allies with the greatest satisfaction. They cleared the way to very important negociations, and led the powers to interpose in the unfortunate circumstances in which America was placed, in order that measures of prudence and vigour might be adopted to reduce the revolted provinces, and to put a period to the political contagion arising from such an order of things.

To support the continuance of proceedings so happily commenced, his Majesty considers, that the moment is arrived when he ought solemnly and catagorically to represent to his High Allies, the principles which he has prescribed to himself to produce the good he had in view, and such as from his sentiments of humanity, they ought to expect.

"In consequence, and in reference to the propositions he has already made, his Majesty now declares, that the following are the points to which he has invariably adhered:—

"1. General amnesty to the insurgents on their submission.

"2. Admission of native Americans, endowed with the requisite qualifications, to all offices in common with European Spaniards.

"3. Regulation of the commerce of the Provinces with foreign states, according to free principles, and conformably to the present political situation of those countries and Europe.

“A sincere disposition on the part of his Catholic Majesty to accede to all measures which, in the course of the negociations, may be proposed to him by his High Allies, and which shall be consistent with the support of his rights and dignity.

His Majesty is therefore persuaded, that there is no longer any opposition to the opening of negociations upon the above basis, the principles of which he knows are conformable to the views already manifested by his august Allies."

Bulletin of the King's Health.

"Windsor Castle, Aug. 1. "His Majesty has continued to enjoy good bodily health throughout the month, and has been in a tranquil and cheerful state of

spirits; but his Majesty's disorder is unabated."

has

Her Majesty, we are happy to say, been in an improving state throughout the month. She is now able to take daily exer