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On the approaching
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Kensington, April 19, 1821.

SIR,

I see that the resolution is taken

to broil me, if possible. I see that VAN and his brother conjurors of Threadneedle-street are

and to pay in Gold. Great is
my peril. For, if I should not
be literally broiled alive, I shall
have to endure something a great
deal worse; for I stand pledged
to VAN to take off my hat and
make a bow, as low as Catholic-
every time
priest at the altar,
VAN is named in my presence,
for the rest of my life, if the
Bank pay in gold, and if he, or

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Herrings, pay the interest of the This is what I have said. I Debt in full, at the same time have always said, that we could that the Bank pays in gold. And, have gold again with a reduction rather than show any mark of re-(a very great one) of the interest spect to VAN, I would be broiling of the Fund-lords. But, that in pepper and salt, and endure without such reduction, we could devilling, like the gizzard of a turkey, for a month.

not have gold again; that is to say, that we could not, at our pleasure, go to the Bank and demand gold in exchange for banknotes, and that, too, for notes of all amounts. This is what I have said; and, if there be any one who

VAN's bill for enabling the Bank to pay in cash in May has, I hear, alarmed some of my Disciples. They begin, I am told, to fear, that, after all, I shall prove to have been in error, as to now doubts of the truth of my the main point; that of cash-pay-sayings, he cannot be my Disciments. They see that I was right as to the effects of your bill; they now hear fifty members of parliament ascribe the general ruin

ple; and he shall have no place at the feast of the Gridiron; which, I think, we shall hold in grand style, before this day twelve

of trade and husbandry to that months.

gard it as a bill to compel the Bank to pay its one-pound notes in cash, and, of course, to take all the notes of that amount out of circulation as fast as they are

bill; they see all my predictions VAN's present bill is very much as to the effects of the paper-misunderstood. Some people remoney verified; but, they fear, that I have been wrong as to the fact of cash-payments. Now, let it be borne in mind by them, that I have never said, that the Bank could not pay its debts in cash. I brought in. It is no such a thing. have, always, on the contrary, It is merely to permit the Bank said it could. But, this I have to pay in gold, if it please, in the said, and to this I stand, that it month of May. It is stated, incan never pay the interest of the deed, in the way of speech, that Government debt in cash. Or, in this measure will take the oneother words, that the Bank can-pound notes out of circulation, not pay in cash on demand, and, and thereby give a check to forat the same time, pay the interest

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of the government debt, unless gery. But, this is not to be And VAN says, ex

that interest be reduced.

enacted.

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