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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, in and near LONDON s 
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
AT the late anniversary, at St. Paul’s, the 
charity children of the metropolis num* 
bereci - 7000.. , / 
The public subscriptions for relieving the 
British prisoners in p'rance amounted, July, !2, 
to .59,0001. and th^t for relieving the Portu¬ 
guese to 70,0001. 
The Report of the Committee on the laws 
relating to Penitentiary Houses has been- 
printed by otder of the House of Commons, 
-itstates. that, from.the evidence received, the 
Committee are ot opinion, that the systern of 
penitentiary imprisonment is calculated to re¬ 
form offend-ers, and ought to be pursued ; but 
that itis not expedie'nl to erect for that pur-; 
j)Ose .a pepltentiary house or houses for Eng-, 
land and VVales but that it would be more, 
advisable that a . separa e. house or houses 
should,be erecred, in. the first instance, for, 
London and Middlesex, and that measures 
should be taken for carrying on the peniten¬ 
tiary system, as soon as may .be practicable, in 
diffi§Eeot-parts of the country. 
The following is a copy of a.let ter recently 
sent hy.Lord King to his tenants with a view 
to bring to issue the evaded ^uestipn ab^ut cur-r 
reacy:—“Bylease dated 1802, you have agreed 
to pay the annual rent of- i.-nd. 
lawful mo fi'^y cf Grae.t Britain. Inconsequence 
of the late depreciation ot paper money, I can 
no longer accept of any bank notes at theit 
nominal vafae in payment or. sa'isfaction of 
an old caiitract; I must, therefore, desire you 
to provide for the payment, of your rent in the 
'legal coin of. the realm; at the same time, 
having no .other oiiject-than to receive pay¬ 
ment of the real intrinsic value of the sum 
stipulated by agreement, and being desirous to 
avoid giving you unnecessary trouble, 1 shall 
be willing to I'eceive payment in-either of the' 
manners following, according.,to your option. . 
“,1st. By. payment in guineas. . . 
“2d. if guineas csnnot be. procured, ..by a 
payment in Portugal gold coin, equal in 
weight to the number of guineas requisite to 
discharge the debt. . - 
“ 3d. By payment in bank paper of a sum 
sufficient to purchase .frit the present market 
price) the weight of standard gold-requisite- 
to discharge the rent. The.alteration o; the 
value of paper money is estimated in thus man¬ 
ners . 
“The price of gold in 1802, theyear oTyottr 
agreement, was 41. per. oz.; the present market 
pricejs 41. 148. arising from the diminished- 
value of paper—in that proportion an addition 
of 171. 10s. per cent, in^aper money will .be 
required as the equivalent for the payment of 
the rent'in paper. Kjnq. 
■“ N.B. A power of re-entry and eieerment 
i.-, rc-served by deed in,case of non-payment of 
rent due. No draft will be received,” 
1 
On July 1) about eleven o’clock, a fire 
broke out in the warehoivse of Mr, Reed, book¬ 
seller, in Bell-yard, and the whole of the pre¬ 
mises were consumed. 
7'here are at present in commission 7,20 
ships of war, of which 1.50 are of the line, 
22 from 44 to 50 guns, 161 frigates, 134 
sloops of war, 135 armed brigs, &c. Besides 
which there are buildingnnd repairing a num¬ 
ber, which makes the total amount 1042, caf 
which 254 are of the line. 
Of the stratagems to evade a prosecutlom 
for the purchase of guineas, the following 
advertisement wasingenious:— “ Lost Elg s t 
Guineas —Whoever may- have found the 
same, and will bring them to Mr. Solomcn''$, 
Old Jewry, shall' receive Ten Pounds re- 
war dP 
It appears from the Report of the Commit¬ 
tee of the House of C >mmbns upon the emo¬ 
luments of the Lord Chancellor, that h-is 
acknowledged income in his jurisdiction as 
Chancellor for the year endmg the 5th of 
April, 1811, was 15,5.321. iSs.; and as 
Speaker of the Housi of I.ords, for the last 
year, 6.8441. i5s. making together an annual 
sum of 22,3771. 8s. being an increase of 
about 70001. a year within the last ten years. 
The produce as Chancellor was, last year, 
almost 3,5001. greater than the preceding 
year, ov.'ing to the extraordinary increase of 
bankruptcies ! ! 
Statement of Balances of Money and Secu¬ 
rities of the Suitors in the Court of 
Ch.^ncery, in the different Periods under¬ 
mentioned ; as represented by the Lor<- 
Chancellor, to the Committee of the House 
of Lords- 
Tears. 
s. 
d. 
1730 
...... 1.007,298 
14 
i 
1740' 
. 1,295,251 
16 
3 
1750 
...... 1,66.5:160 
18 
*4 
1760 
...... 3,093,740 
0 
3 
1770 
...... 5,153,901 
1 
o 
O 
1780 
. 7,120,537 
12 
% 
1790 
...... 10,348,270 
7 
0 
1800 
.. 17.565,912 
2 
8 
ISIO 
...... 25.162,430 
13 
2 
The: Royal Assent having been given, ts 
the Insolvent Debtors’ Bill, on Tuesday, the 
^th, the event was celebrated iu the several 
prisons, by the persons likely to obtain their 
liberty by the bill. The apartments v/ere 
illuminated, and lights were suspended on 
the wails wif-h transparencies, concaiaing the 
following motto, '• To Lords Moira and 
Redesdale, the Friends of poor Debtors.” 
A Meeting was held on Tuesday, June 11, 
at Canonbury- hou&e, of the .inhabitants of the 
large and populous parish of St. Luke, and 
several other places friendly to Reform in 
the Poor’s Rates, to celebrate the third anni¬ 
versary 
