tude, that it requires a wise, speedy, radical, and efficacious remedy, which shall completely prevent the possibility of this nation being ever again deprived of its proper internal circulating medium, either from the circumstances of the balance of payments, in respect to foreign countries, being at any time against us, and which must ever of necessity tend to order our gold to be exported, in order to make such balance, or from the circumstance of any temporary alarm which may indeed cause our gold to be hoarded; or even any other circumstance or combination of circumstances; and that parliament should take into its most serious consideration this important subject, and must adopt such measures as shall effectively prevent the return of so intolerable a burden.

9. "That it would be an act of the greatest injustice, and an act likewise both impolitic and rash, if parliament were to make, by law, either bank notes, or any other paper circulating medium, a regular legal tender, on account of this curious circumstance, viz. that the person to whom such a tender may be made, may not be certain that such note or other paper circulating medium is not forged.

10. That for the various weighty reasons aforesaid, it is highly expedient, that a permanent mode of making payments be established, by means of which mode, legal tenders, even to the largest amount, may be made, without gold, as gold ought never again to be relied upon for that legal and necessary purpose, on account of the impossibility of procuring gold at all times in sufficient quantity; and by means of which same mode, legal tenders for fractional sums may be made, without either silver or copper, and by means of which same mode also, legal tenders may be made in all countries, without tendering in payment either bank-notes

or any other kind of circulating paper whatever.

11. "That, in order to satisfy the public respecting the solvency of the bank of England, and to prevent all future apprehensions upon that important subject, it is expedient, that the governor and company of the bank of England be by law compelled to lay before both Houses of Parliament, in the first week of every session of parliament, a full, clear, luminous, and satisfactory account of the state of their affairs; and that a maximum be always fixed by law with respect to the number and value of the notes which may be issued by the said governor and company, and which may at one time be out in circulation.

12. "That it is expedient, that the bank of England shall establish various branches throughout the whole country, and in many parts of the metropolis, and shall cause books to be opened in each of those places; and that persons possessed of bank-notes shall be entitled, upon depositing such notes, to have a credit in the bankbook at the place where such deposit is made, equal to the value in pounds sterling, which is specified in such notes to be payable to the bearer on demand; and that every person having such credit so entered to his account in any one place as aforesaid, shall be entitled to transfer the whole of such sum so accredited, or any part thereof, either to his own account or to that of any other person, at any place where any such book is opened.

13. "That for the perfect security of all persons who shall at any time be possessed of any such credit as aforesaid, it is expedient that triplicate corresponding entries be made, the first of which shall be on the bank-book at such place, the second of which shall be delivered to the person who shall have brought the bank notes as a certificate

of the proper entry having been made, and the third of which shall be forthwith transmitted to the original bank of England in London, in order to be by them filed and daily transmitted to the Tower of London, for safe custody, after such last-mentioned triplicate shall have been duly recorded in the books at the bank of England itself, and that every transfer be made in like

manner.

14. That, as under proper regulations in detail, such book entries and such book transfers cannot ever be forged, it would be highly expedient that the law should authorise legal tenders to be made, by tendering such a book transfer as aforesaid of the sum due in such form and manner as shall hereafter be prescribed by law."

Speech of the Prince Regent by Commission on proroguing Parliament, July 24.

My Lords and Gentlemen, His Royal Highness the Prince Re gent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, has commanded us to signify to you the satisfaction with which he finds himself enabled to relieve you from your attendance in parliament, after the long and laborious duties of the session. We are particularly directed to express his appro bation of the wisdom and firmness which you have manifested in enabling his Royal Highness to continue the exertions of this country in the cause of our allies, and to prosecute the war with increased activity and vigour.

Your determined perseverance in a system of liberal aid to the brave and loyal nations of the peninsula has progressively augmented their means and spirit of resistance; while the humane attention which you have paid to the sufferings of the inhabitants of Portugal, under the unexampled cruelty of

the enemy, has confirmed the alliance by new ties of affection, and cannot fail to inspire additional zeal and animation in the maintenance of the com

mon cause.

His Royal Highness especially commands us to declare his cordial concurrence in the measure which you have adopted for improving the internal security and military resources of the United Kingdom.

For these important purposes you have wisely provided, by establishing a system for the annual supply of the regular army, and for the interchange of the militias of Great Britain and Ireland; and his Royal Highness has the satisfaction of informing you, that the voluntary zeal which has already been manifested upon this occasion has enabled him to give immediate operation to an arrangement by which the union and mutual interests of Great Britain and Ireland may be more effectually cemented and improved.

Gentlemen of the House of Com.

mons,

His Royal Highness commands us to thank you, in the name and on behalf of his majesty, for the liberal supplies which you have furnished for every branch of the public service.

His Royal Highness has seen with pleasure the readiness with which you have applied the separate means of Great Britain to the financial relief of Ireland at the present moment, and derives much satisfaction from perceiving that you have been able to accomplish this object with so little additional burthen upon the resources of this part of the united kingdom. The manner in which you have taken into consideration the condition of the Irish revenue has met with his Royal Highness's approbation; and his Royal Highness commands us to add, that he looks with confidence to the advantage which may be derived from the attention of parliament having been given to this important subject.

And whereas at a meeting or assembly of persons held in the city of Dublin on the 9th day of July instant, and styling themselves "A Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland," certain resolutions, amongst others, were entered into, and have since been published, of the tenour following:

"Resolved, That a committee of catholics be therefore appointed, and requested to cause proper petitions to be forthwith framed for the repeal of the penal laws, and to procure signatures thereto in all parts of Ireland, and to take measures for bringing such petitions under the serious consideration of the legislature within the first month of the ensuing sessions of parliament. "Resolved, That said committee do consist of the catholic peers and their eldest sons, the catholic baronets, the prelates of the catholic church in Ireland, and also ten persons to be appointed by the catholics in each county of Ireland, the survivors of the delegates of 1793 to constitute an integral part of that number, and also of five persons to be appointed by the catholic inhabitants of each parish in Dublin.

"Resolved, That the appointment of the said persons be made forthwith. "Resolved, That it be recommended to such committee to resort to all legal and constitutional means of maintaining a cordial communication of sentiment and co-operation of conduct amongst the catholics of Ireland, and generally of promoting the favourable reception of their petition.

"Resolved, That until the new committee shall be appointed, the management of catholic affairs shall be confided to the catholic peers, baronets, and survivors of the delegates of

1793."

And whereas there is reason to apprehend, that some of his Majesty's subjects may have already acted, and that others may be misled to act in

furtherance of those resolutions, by taking a part in the election or appointment of delegates or representatives for such proposed assembly or committee; and that the persons so elected or delegated, or to be so elected or delegated, may be disposed to meet and form such assembly or committee as aforesaid.

And whereas such an assembly as is by these resolutions proposed to be convened, is not only in direct violation of the provisions of the statute aforesaid, and an unlawful assembly, but tends directly to endanger the peace and tranquillity of the state.

Now we, the Lord-lieutenant, by and with the advice of the privy council of Ireland, being determined, as far as in us lies, to enforce the due observance of the laws of this realm, and being anxious to prevent the mischiefs which the violation of those laws, and particularly of the statute herein before mentioned, must occasion, do, by this our proclamation, command all his Majesty's loving subjects of this part of the United Kingdom, that they do abstain from all acts and proceedings whatsoever contrary to the provisions of the aforesaid statute.

"And wedo hereby further call upon and require all justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, and other peace officers in this part of the United Kingdom, that they do proceed in due course of law to apprehend and hold to bail all persons against whom information on oath shall have been obtained of having given or published, or caused to be given or published, any written or other notice of elections to

be holden, or of any manner of appointment of any representative or delegate for any such assembly as is herein before-mentioned, or of having voted, or in any other manner acted, or who shall be found actually voting, or in any other manner acting, in the election or appointment of such dele