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ef England, whichexisted before the suspen- 
sion of cash payments. : 
12. That it appears, that the exchanges 
with foreign parts have, for a considerable 
period of time, been unfavourable to th's 
country in an extraordinary degree, 
43. That, : although the adverse circum- 
stances of our trade, together with the large 
amount of our military expenditure abroad, 
may have contributed to render our exchanges 
with the continent of Europe unfavourable; 
yet the extraordinary degree in which the 
exchanges have been depressed for so long a 
period, has been, in a great measure, occa- 
sioned by the depreciation which has taken 
_ place in the relative value of the currency of 
“this country, as compared with the money 
_ of foreign countries. 
,. 14. That, during the continuance of the 
suspension of cash payments, it is the duty 
ef the directors of the Bank of England to 
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advert td the state of the foreign exchanges, 
as well as to the price of bullion,.with a view 
to regulate the amount of their issues. 
15. That the only certain and adequate 
security to be provided against an excess of 
paper currency, and for maintaining the 
relative value of the circulating medium of ~ 
the realm, is-the legal convertibility, upon 
demand, of all paper currency into the 
lawful coin of the realm, 
16. That, inorder to revert gradually to 
this security, and to enforce mean-while a due 
limitation of the paper of the Bank of Eng- 
land, as well as.of all the other bank paper 
of the country, it is expedient to amend the 
act, which suspends the cash payments of the 
Bank, by altering the time till which the 
suspension shail continue, from six months 
after the ratification of a definitive treaty of 
peace, to that of two years from the present 
time. 
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: INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS, rn axnp NEAR LONDON: 
~ With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased, 
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qT" consequence of the parish of St. Luke 
having introduced a bill into parliament, 
during the present Session, requiring the 
Publication, by the Magistrates of Middlesex, 
Of an amount of the monies expended for the 
County rate, which is paid by the different 
parishes out of the poor’s rates and "has in- 
creased to the annual sum of about 30,0001. 
the Magistrates for that county have 
_made an order that an abstract of the 
accounts should be annually printed, anda 
copy of them delivered to the churchwardens 
and overseers of every parish throughout the 
sounty- 
Additional tolls of one penny on carriages, 
and half-penny on horses, will be levied at 
all turnpikes on the 7th of June next. The 
Commissioners of Hyde Park Turnpike, have 
in consequence let their tolls by auction, 
to the former lessees, for 17,0001. per an- 
num. 
At the expiration of the present Crown 
leases, which will be in about three years, 
the houses in Pall Mall, from the corner of 
Market lane, to the Hay-Market, are to be 
pulled down, anda grand front, under the 
direction of an eminent architect, is to be 
formed to the Opera House, upon the 
site. This will be an improvement long 
wanted. 
Between two and three o’clock in the 
morning of Saturday, April 20ch, a dreadful 
fire broke out in the house occupied by Mr. 
Ggullee, pork-butcher, corner of Half-Moon- 
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7 
street, Bishopsgate-street, London. The mo« 
ment the flames. burft forth in the lower 
apartments, the alarm of fire was given from 
without by some passengers; but such pro- 
gress had the fire made, it was too late to 
save the lives of most of the devoted inha- 
bitants. The family consisted of Mr, Goullee, 
his wife, three children, the nurse, a maid 
servant, shop boy, and a waiter of the Lon- 
don Tavern and his wife, who were lodgers 
on the first Moor. The two latter only were 
awakened by the noise, and they had the 
good fortune to escape with their bed to the 
window of the firft floor, which they threw on 
the pavement, for the purpose of throwing 
themselves uponit. ‘The wife first made a 
leap, and, falling on the bed, did net receive 
the slightest injury 5 her husband inftantly 
followed. Of the rest of the iamily nothing 
was seen, but the populace heard their crieg 
at intervals. This was but for a short time, 
for the floor giving way, the whole of this 
unfortunate family perished in the burning 
ruins. It is not known how the fire ori- 
ginated. 
The annual Meeting of the British and 
Foreign Bible Society was held on the first of 
May, and did not fall short in interest of any 
of the former Meetings. . The expenditure 
of the Society in diffusing the Scriptures 
in vatious nations, and in every quarter of 
the globe, amounts for the last year to 
50,0001.; and the number -f Bibles distri- 
buted,-to one half of the whole nuinber dis- 
perted 
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