178 Bankrupts. [Sept, 1, growth, also admits of the same observation? the heavy kind of our own growth having nearly doubled in value since 1816. The vast increase of property necessarily created by the high and liberal value which all foreign productions, as well as all the productions of our own raw materials for manufacture obtain ;-occasions that constantly increasing demand for all the productions of manufacture, which, we trust, will immediately lead to that liberal remuneration for labour, as soon to efface the effects of that perverse and reprehensible policy, which in the years 1815 and 1816, sunk the nation into the most abject condition, amid means which required the common exertions of common talent only, to have rewarded its people with plenty of happiness instead of want and misery. The transmission of specie in payment for Loans to foreign Governments, as well as a constant demand to more promptly effect commercial enterprize in various parts of the world, together with the inducement to capitalists, to vest a portion of property in the Funds of the different States of Europe, where the interest very considerably exceeds that of this Country, occasions bullion to maintain a very high price, gold commanding 80s. to 81s. 6d., and dollars 5s. 5d. to 5s. 6d. p. oz. ; and also to reduce the value of our Public Stock; the 3 per cents. of which, at the close of the year, obtained 84 to 85, have receded to 75 and 76. The foreign Exchanges for some months past have experienced but very trifling variation, and continue favourable for our foreign relations. BANKRUPTS FROM JULY 23 TO AUGUST 23, 1818, INCLUSIVE. Where the address of the Solicitor is not mentioned, he must be understood to reside at the same place as the bankrupt. The Solicitors' names are between parentheses. ABBOTT J. Weymouth st. Portland place, butcher (Young, Charlotte row. Abbott W. Honey-lane Market, butcher (Young, Ashby W. Godmanchester, miller (Chennel, Sta. Barlow J. H. Vere st. Oxford st. jeweller (May- Blunt C. Tavistock st. Covent Garden, optician (Richardson, Clement's Inn Bousfield W. May's buildings, St. Martin's-lane, draper (Simpson, Temple Breese, J. Caerswys, Montgomery, grocer (Milne & Parry Temple Bruford C. Galway st. St. Luke's, cabinet-maker Burton W. Hinckley, Leicestershire, hosier (Stone, Cayzen W. Mawgan, maltster (Sandys & Co. Harcourt J. Chard, banker (Milne & Parry, Temple Houlbrooke T. High Holborn, linen draper (Ma hew & Co. Chancery lane James W. Clement's lane, merchant (Hart, Lincoln's Inu, New Square Jones M. M. Blackfriar's road, stable keeper (Lc. Lambden H. St. George, Gloucestershire, pin- Leigh W. Bath st. Bethnal Green, merchant Lumley W. Jermyn st. tavern keeper (Milne & Marshall J. Sheffield, shoemaker (Cox & Reader coln's Inn Prout A. Truro, Cornwall, grocer (Davidson, Chorley J. C. Lancashire, joiner (Rotherham, Ramsay J. Cadogan place, Sloane st. merchant Throgmorton str. (Crowder & Co. Old Jewry Churcher J. Bromley, Kent, cordwainer (Shutter, Rarples R. Dover, Kent, jeweller (Isaacs, Bury. Greenwich Devereux & Lambert, Brabant court, merchants Durand J. N. Cumming-st. Pentonville, merchant Finley T. H. Whittle Hills, Lancashire, cotton ma- Fitton J. Gosport, dealer (Minchin & Weddel, Flower T. Castle st. Holborn, jeweller (Jenning & Frost J. St. Alban's, Herts, linen draper (Besant, Hadingham M. King-st. West Smithfield, harness- st. St. Mary Axe Ray R. Norwich, grocer (Belton, New Inn Smith W. Leicester, woolstapler (S. Green, Lei. Barton J. Old South Sea House, merchant, Aug. 7 Bend T. Shireland, maltster,Sep.3 Biddick T. St. Issey, Cornwall, cornfactor, Sept. 2 BowleyW.Half-moon st. Bishop'sgate, oilman, Sept. 15 Brice W. Bristol, merchant, Aug. 18 Brown & Goldie, Deptford, coal merchants, Sept. 15 Butler H. Leamington Priors, butcher, Aug. 31 Cazaly W. Edgbaston, dealer, Sept. 8 Charleton J. F. Newcastle upon. Tyne, Aug. 28 Cheshire & Johnson, Birming ham, gunmakers, Sept. 2 Collison & Tritton, Lombard st. bankers, Sept. 19 Coleman J. Liverpool, baker, Sep. 15 Collman & Lambert, Old Beth lem, merchants, Sept. 15 Colwell C. V. Russell st. linen draper, Nov. 3 Hurry S. Throgmorton st. broker, Ready S. Southampton, dealer, Innes & Watkins, Bristol, che mists, Sept. 15 James W. Westbury, linen dra. per, Aug. 21 Joseph R. Little New str. pew terer, Aug. 25 Kearsley G. Fleet st. bookseller, Aug. 25 Kirkham J. Acre Farm, Aug. 15 Kirkman Gower street, builder, Sept. 19 Cradocke J. Downing st. picture Kirkpatrick J. Liverpool, mer dealer, Aug. 15 Darby T. New Sarum, linen draper, Aug. 25 Davis J. St. Martin's lane, car penter, Sept. 12 awson W. Wakefield, scrivener, Sept. 7 Dick Q. Finsbury squ. merchant, Sept. 5 Dingle J. Plymouth, cabinet. maker, Aug. 22 Ellis E. Manchester, joiner, Sept. 17 Fairlamb J. Wynyatt st Goswell st. Persian manufacturer, Aug. 29 Flower & Mainwaring, Chiches ter Rents, Sept. 15 Forster E. Rickersgate, grocer, Sept. 10 Gedge W. Angel ct. Threadneedle st. wine merchant, Aug. 22 1 chant, 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. 25 Parsons J. Harwich, fishing smack owner, Sept. 5 Pattison D. Carlisle, brewer, Sept. 10 Pfeill & Vau Voorst, Bishops Sept. 22 Rose J. V. Cambridge, brush maker, Aug. 17 Russell T. Beverley, victualler, Sept. 3 Saies J. Milford, grocer, Aug. 24 Saies W. Milford, shopkeeper, Aug. 21 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 5 Sykes & Baker, Leeds, dyers, Sept. 3 Tomlinson T. Winterton, coal merchant, Aug. 27 Tucker J. Bath, coal merchant, Aug. 27 Turnbull, Forbes, Crawford, and Skene, Broad street, merchants, Walker J. Russell st. Bermondsey, glue maker, Sept. 12 Wilkinson J. Tadcaster, bookseller, Aug. 21 Williams T. Leadenhall street, broker, Aug. 29 Wright H. New st. Brunswick ASHLEY W. Goswell str. laceman, Aug. 18 Aspinall J. Curtain road, stone mason, Aug. 18 Baker J. L. & G. Leeds, merchants, Sept. 5 Bartlett J. jun. Beckington, dyer, Aug. 25 Batley C. Spread Eagle yard, stable keeper, Aug. 29 CERTIFICATES. Benson J. Birmingham, pocket Carr T. Oxford, grocer, Aug. 18 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 Batt T. Macelesfield, cotton spin- Coles C. Fleet street, stationer, Gunston J. Percival st. cheesener, Aug. 25 180 Certificates-Canal and Dock Shares. Hampshire J. Kirkburton, miller, Aug. 29 Illingworth A. Philpot la. wine merchant, Sept. 1 Jump J. Fore st. hat manufac turer, Sept. 5 Kirk S. Leeds, alehousekeeper, Sept. 5 Landsell J. jun. Bexhill, farmer, Sept. 8 Lloyd R. Dolgelly, tanner, Sep. 1 Martin T. Bristol, linen draper, Aug. 15 Maycock H. Manchester, shop. keeper, Sept. 1 Mayman J. Dewsbury, victualler, Sept. 8 Muston G. Epping, schoolmaster, Sept. 1 Nye J. Tonbridge, baker, Aug 25 Osbourne W. Sculcoates, merchant. Aug. 15 Owen J. Stourbridge,ironmonger, Aug 16. [Sept. 1, CANALS. Div. per Ann. Per share. 11. s. Prices of Canal Shares, &c. in the Month of August, 1818, at the Office of Mr. Clarke, 39, Throgmorton Street. Div. per Ann. Per Share. l. s. Cons. Navy. DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM JULY 25, TO AUGUST 25, 1818, BOTH INCLUSIVE. j3 per Ct 3 per Ct 3 pr Ct 4 per Ct. 5 perCt Redu. Cons. Cons. Long Imp. Imp. Anns. 3 per C Anns. Omnium. India Stock. So. Seal O.S.S. New S. Stock. Anns. Sea An. 4 per Ct. Ind. Bon. 78 27 77 88 781772 77763 88 dis. 95 97 106 105201% I dis. 94 94 pm. 19 95 pm. 19 28276 27677 762 1053 20 dis. 232 19 97 105 76 dis. 92 93 pm.19 21 pm. 19 31 276 277 77: Aug. 1 773 77 763 77 772 77 763 88 97 106 105 1 dis. 94 93 pm. 19 21 pm. 19 97 105 76 dis. 2334 92 pm 19 21 pm.19 97 963 105 1 1 dis. 91 pm. 18 20 pm.J9 8 88 97 1052 dis. 77 20 17 pm. 19 97 105 106 20 16. dis 92 pm. 18 20 pm. 19 Ex. Bills. 2d per Day 2 21 pm. 20 21 pm 19 20 pm. 21 Ex. Bills. Consols per Day for Ac. 21 pm. 77 21 pm. 77 19 pm.7 21 pm. 77 21 pm. 77 20 pm. 77 76377 20 pm. 77 18 pm. 77 18 pm. 77 97 106 1053 20 76% 6276 275772 772 881873 97 105 106 20 7 275 27677 77 88 197 105 106 20276 8 773 774 88 97 106 20 10 78 777 88 97 1061 20 11276 7.732 105 106 20 12 Holiday. 13 276 276 78 77277763 88 97 105 106 20 14 77 763 872 97 053 15 77 7676 75 87 86 96 105 17 76 75 76 86% 96 105: 2016 201 20 18273 $763 76753 86 87 961 1053 2017 19 76 75 86 96 95 105 104 20 20273 76753 96 96 95 105 20% 21 272 76 186 95 105 20% 22 764 86 86 95 104 105 20 dis. 3 dis. 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 WETENHALL, Stock-Broker, Angel court, Throgmorton-street, London, On application to whom the original documents for near a century past may be read. (182) DIGEST OF POLITICAL EVENTS. PUBLIC attention will be soon at tracted 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 her self 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. |