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verfation on the fubjeét, faid, That 
meafures were now taking for a 
payment of 500,000l. more on this 
account, to the Bank, which would 
reduce their advance on this fcore. 
to under..200,000l.; but that as 
matters were fituated, he could not 
forefee a poflibility of paying the 
remainder, and quite finifhing the 
account, till May or June next; 
for that as fome part of our cavalry 
had not been brought home from 
Germany, there mutt ftill be fome 
monies drawn for their charges; 
but he did not think it could amount 
to above 300,0001. more in the 
whole. Mr. Pitt, however, faid, he 
would digeft his ideas on this fub- 
ject more particularly, and fend a 
letter with a propofal to the Bank- 
court againft next Thurfday. 
Mr. Pitt dwelt much on the ne- 
ceffity of fome farther fupport to 
be given to the Emperor, to enable 
him to continue his efforts againft 
the French, as the .moft probable 
means of bringing the war to an 
end; but. knowing the fentimenis 
of the Directors of the Bank to be 
againft any fuch affiftance in mo- 
ney, he promifed that he would not 
commit himfelf to any engagement 
for a farther loan to the Emperor, 
without a previous communication 
on the fubject with the gentlemen 
of the Bank. 
“~~ . Mr. Pitt read fome extraéts of 
letters from the Britith refident and 
others at. Hamburgh, which men- 
tioned that large quantities of Eng- 
lifh guineas were imported thither 
by the packets from Yarmouth ; 
and one mentioned that the guinéas 
were melted down on arrival there. 
Mr. Pitt faid, that attention fhould 
be paid to this circumftance atthe 
pews from. which the packets 
niled, 
APPENDHY -7T6 T 
(No. 16.) : 
Interview with the Chancellor of the Exe 
chequer, 12th of February, 1796. 
THE Governor told Mr.. Pitt, 
That the court had received his let- 
ter of the 11thinftant, and would 
comply with his defire of continu- 
ing to pay the Treafury bills as ufual 
till May, when he hoped it would 
be totally done away; and that he 
might look to a temporary accom- 
modation of 500,000l. in the inter- 
val; but abfolutely required, that 
it fhould never exceed that fum. 
Mr. Pitt faid, That as far as lay 
in his power, it fhould not exceed 
it; but that demands did arife oc- 
cafionally which he could not fore- 
fee, but which the public fervice 
required to be provided for; and 
if the money from the loan did not 
flow in faft enough, he might be 
obliged to have. recourfe for tem- 
porary afliftance to the Bank; and 
that it lay with the court of Direc- 
tors to judge whether they chofe 
to. accommodate the public or not. 
(No. 17.) ttom 
Interviews with the Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer, 11th of April, 1796... 
THE Governorand Deputy.Go- ~ 
vernor this day waited on the Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer at his des 
fire; when he informed them, that 
he meant to propofe in parliament 
a farther loan of about fix millions 
and a half, in order to fund the four 
millions of Exchequer bills, which 
the Bank holds on the fupply and: 
vote of ‘credit of 1795; two ‘milli- 
ons of Exchequer bills which have 
iflued to the public, and about half 
a million, the amount of navy*bills 
held by the Bank, due in the months 
when he means to fund them, but 
which 
