ARTICLE V.

With regard to the productions of than those stipulated in the present the countries of Europe, it is under- convention in favour of British and stood between the high contracting French vessels. parties, that such productions shall not be imported in British ships into France for the consumption of that The fishing-boats of either of the kingdom, unless such ships shall two countries, which may be forced have been laden therewith in some by stress of weather to seek shelter port of the United Kingdom; and in the ports or on the coast of the that His Britannic Majesty may other country, shall not be subject to adopt, if he shall think fit, some any duties or port charges of any corresponding restrictive measure, description whatsoever; provided the with regard to the productions of said boats, when so driven in by stress the countries of Europe imported of weather, shall not discharge or into the ports of the United King- receive on board any cargo, or por dom in French vessels: the high tion of cargo, in the ports or on the contracting parties reserving, how- parts of the coast where they shall ever, to themselves the power of have sought shelter. making, by mutual consent, such relaxations in the strict execution of

ARTICLE VI.

the present article as they may think the present convention between the It is agreed that the provisions of useful to the respective interests of high contracting parties shall be rethe two countries, upon the principle ciprocally extended and in force, in of mutual concessions, affording each all the possessions subject to their to the other reciprocal or equivalent respective dominion in Europe. advantages.

ARTICLE III.

ARTICLE VII.

The present convention shall be All goods, wares, and merchan-in force for the term of ten years, dise, which can or may be legally from the 5th of April of the present exported from the ports of either of year; and further,tuntil the end of the two countries, shall, on their ex- twelve months after either of the port, pay the same duties of exporta-high contracting parties shall have tion, whether the exportation of such given notice to the other of its intengoods, wares, and merchandise, be tion to terminate its operation; each made in British or in French vessels, of the high contracting parties reprovided the said vessels proceed, serving to itself the right of giving respectively, direct from the ports of such notice to the other, at the end the one country to those of the other. of the said term of ten years: and it And all the said goods, wares, and is agreed between them, that, at the merchandise, so exported in British end of the twelve months' extension or French vessels, shall be recipro- agreed to on both sides, this convencally entitled to the same bounties, tion, and all the stipulations thereof, drawbacks, and other allowances of shall altogether cease and determine. the same nature, which are granted by the regulations of each country respectively.

ARTICLE VIII.

The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London, within the space of one month, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective
Plenipotentiaries have signed

Average Prices of CO RN through-sex and Kent; the contrary state of out ENGLAND, for the week end- the wind keeping out supplies from ing January 28.

more distant parts. Although fine Wheat is scarce, yet the reluctance of our Millers to purchase is so great, that every sort may be quoted is. to 52s. per qr. cheaper than last Monday, unless for a picked sample or two.

"Though Standing Armies and Sedition Bills and Habeas Corpus Sus"pension Bills are dreadfully powerful things, their power is not of that "kind which enables people to pay taxes. In all human probability, the "whole of the interest of the Debt, and all the Sinecures and Pensions and "Salaries, and also the expenses of a thundering Standing Army, will con"tinue to be made up, by taxes, by loans from the Bank, by Exchequer "Bills, by every species of contrivance, to the latest possible moment, and until the whole of the paper system, amidst the war of opinions, of projects, of interests and of passions, shall go to pieces like a ship upon the "rocks."-REGISTER, MARCH 1817.

NEW PROJECTS.

TO MONEY-HOARDERS.

Kensington, 14th February, 1826.

solid reason, to expect that even this prophecy will be verified.

The NEW PROJECTS, now before the "COLLECTIVE WISDOM,' will, if carried into effect, or, if pushed to any considerable extent, produce new and dreadful calamities, though these will fall where MY FRIENDS, they ought to fall; but I shall Sensible men, who have attend-speak of this more fully by-anded to my advice, you now feel the by. The Chancellor of the Exgood effects of your wise conduct. chequer brought out his new proThe words, taken as my motto to ject on Friday, the 10th inst. ; and, this Register, were put upon paper during the speeches of that day, in that address, which i caused to there came forth some pretty be published at the moment that I enough confessions; amongst which was stepping on board ship in were the following:order to save myself from the dungeons of SIDMOUTH and CASTLEREAGH. Look at the present proceedings in the "COLLECTIVE WISDOM;" then look at the MoTTO; then say, whether you do not believe, that there is reason, and

Mr. ROBINSON (Prosperity) said, that he was sorry that the Small-Note Bill was passed; he also said, that the country had recently narrowly escaped from general, convulsion.

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Mr. BARING (the plethora-man) ment that the world ever saw; here said, that the house was still are we told that we have the wisest on fire. legislature in the world, and the Mr. HUSKISSON (the free-trade one that "works" the best in man) said, that if the "panic" the world; here are we, punished had lasted FORTY-EIGHT with banishment for life, if we utter HOURS longer, all trans-that which has even a tendency to actions would have come to bring either branch of this legisan end, except by BARTER! lature into contempt; here are we Here, then, my friends, is their told by the Ministers themselves, own account of that system, which that we, in the midst of profound they have created, which they have peace, without any discontents in applauded, which they have up-the country, are brought to within held, and for wishing to put an end forty-eight hours of general to which they and their minions, anarchy and confusion, and that, and their myrmidons have so long too, by measures proposed by those been calumniating me! When Ministers themselves, and adopted Mr. HUSKISSON talked of "bar-by that same legislature! ter," what sort of barter did he BARING said, that the house was suppose half a million of working still on fire, and that, therefore, people, in the WEN, were to carry this was not the time to think of on What did he expect that repairing it in a way to prevent these were to offer in exchange for future fires. He, resorting to chibread and meat and beer? What, rurgical similes, said, that, while above all things, did he suppose the patient was in a high fever, that the soldier was to give in ex- the diseased limb ought not to be change for these necessaries of cut off. If, by fire and fever, he life? His would, indeed, have mean the ruin of merchants and been an exchange of a curious dealers, he is right enough in say kind! And who, out of the half-ing that it is still going on. But, million, would have had any thing much better to barter?

when and how is this ruin to stop? Not till nearly a general bankruptcy have taken place. The truth is, that, in paper-money and bills all the trading and even the

In short, my friends, here are the Ministers themselves avowing, that that dreadful scene, which I have (amidst loads of abuse) en-farming community are involved. deavoured to prepare for them; here they are avowing, that we were within forty-eight hours of beholding this most horrible scene of hunger and force arrayed against feebleness and property! And here they are ascribing our escape to mere chance; or, at the very best, to the interference of the Bank of England! So, here we are loaded with taxes, under which we can hardly stagger along; here we are supporting the most costly govern

This paper-money and these bills are, for the greater part, without any basis in goods of any kind. The parties who have to pay them can, in general, pay no part of them in real money, or in goods. Called upon for payment, and not having the means, they break, and each drags down a portion of the community along with him.

As a specimen of what is going on, take this fact. Raw Cotton was bought and imported, during

" prosperity," to an enormous small notes ought to have taken amount: they say, nearly three place long ago;-that the system millions. The French and Ger- was radically erroneous ;—that mans could get none, such was that WISE man, Mr. BURKE, the demand in "prosperity" wrote to him (Canning), when England, owing to the blessings the first issue of small notes was "dispensed from the ancient por- about to take place, and said, tals.' Well, the "prosperity" "if Mr. Pitt put out one pound gave us the whole of it. This cot-" notes, he will never see a guinea ton the French and Germans are 66 again";-that this prophecy now buying here, and taking it was verified;-that it was now away, at just half the price that undeniable, it was now proved, our prosperity" people paid that small notes would not suffer the Americans for it! And this is gold to circulate along with them; one of the causes of Mr. HUSKISSON's great and boasted amount of exports! Not with respect to cotton only, but with respect to all merchandise, the remark holds Mr. CANNING did not say how good; and the manufactures of he was consistent when he sang France and Germany are now "huzza for the PILOT that weaactually set up and supported by thered the storm"! He did not the losses of England; which losses praise Sir JoHN SINCLAIR, who have been occasioned by that pa-said, in 1822, that if a hundred per-money, for the pouring forth" of the wisest men that ever of which Messrs. ROBINSON and "lived had been employed for HUSKISSON now express their" twenty years in finding out the sorrow, while, however, they very "best means of national prospesnugly keep their offices and their emoluments!

-and that, therefore, our choice lay between a debased papermoney and a real return to gold coin.

"rity, they could not have hit "C upon any thing so effectual as The second day's debate, which "one pound notes and legal tentook place on Monday last, brought “der; a blessing which not only out Mr. CANNING, who really "came to us by mere accident, seemed to have been set at work" but one which we, at first, by me to rail against the paper-looked upon as a calamity." money system as a whole. He However, Mr. Canning did tha said, amongst others, these things: which was a great deal better: he' -that small paper-money and repeated many of my arguments gold could not co-exist;-that no- against the infernal paper-money; thing short of a convulsion of na- and he concluded by saying, that ture should make him assent to he hoped to see the day, when the bank-restriction and legal-tender; labouring man would have a that the paper-money makers "fowl in his pot, and a piece of bad usurped the king's preroga-gold in his pocket." To this tive; that their notes kept the I say AMEN, begging, however,' word of promise to the ear, but to substitute bit of bacon for fowl. not to the touch;-[He did not I am, by no means, disposed to say, that he had read the Regis- find fault with the present conduct ter-that the putting down of of the Ministers, as far, at least,'