GOLD! LOOK SHARP ! "Make hay while the sun shines." "liament, the Bank of England is em"powered to pay them in specie one 66 year sooner than had been agreed 66 upon; so that any person carrying them to the Bank, may on having "passed the forms of identifying the 66 name and abode of the holder, &c. "receive a sovereign for each of them: "but this does not discontinue the free circulation, or in the smallest What" degree reduce the current value, of "the notes in hand-neither prevent 66 The demand for Sovereigns regularly increases at the Bank: and no wonder, when we reflect on the innumerable forged notes and on the endless and ruinous breakings of country bankers. a simpleton must any man, or woman, be to keep a bit of paper, which may be forged, which may be worth not a straw from the breaking of a bank, and which" is sure to burn to nothing if fire approach it, when, only for carrying it, or sending it to the bank, gold can be had for it? Who, that now circulates paper-money of any sort, can have the face to" them all, there can be no difficulty in be shocked at the hangings at the "the public mind as to their present " continued circulation." Old Bailey? one-pound notes have been or are “to be called in ; and this has tended ing any from receiving them, nor "any holder from insisting or ten"dering them in payment: indeed the sovereigns and the notes will circulate together until the latter are all gradually exchanged at the "Bank for sovereigns; and as the "value of the gold sovereign is cal"culated in due and relative propor"tion to the note, and as the Bank are "fully possessed of specie to meet Reader, look at this! Consider it well, and become wise quickly. This is an attempt to put a stop o, or to check, the demand for gold at the Bank! And, yet, why should this worthy Scotchman, who is a government man, wish to put a stop to what the government brought in an act to cause to be done? And, then, again, if he did not want to put this stop, why take such pains, "for public convenience," to persuade people to continue to circu "to check their circulation as usual : "-the fact is, that no order has is*sued for their being drawn out of use; but by the recent Act of Par-late the one-ponnders! Why tell them, they may force creditors to being drawn to the gallows on a take them! Why hint, that the hurdle 1 sovereigns are no heavier and In short, these false stories better than it should be! This is a very strange way of aiding the views of the Ministers in getting the one-pounders exchanged for gold! And, especially, when he takes care to tell us, at the close, that the Bank is fully 66 possessed of sovereigns to meet "the one-pounders.". Aye, and to meet the other notes too, I hope! For, the other notes may now be changed into sovereigns by changing the big notes first into little ones. alarm me! What should such However, I do not like this article in the COURIER! It may be pure folly; it may be half" of doors," have written pamphroguery and half folly. It may, lets to show the justice and necesperhaps, have come out of DA-sity of such reduction. LORD NIEL STEWART'S own brains, MILTON, in his circular-letter, and Whitehall may know no expresses an opinion to the same more of it than the child unborn; amount. Several gentlemen "in but I do not like it. Especially "doors" have said the same as I have heard, that there are thing. Now, then, let P fellows who go to Inns aud NCoffee Houses and to Market Kent, look well to this; and Towns to persuade people, that let him ask himself what he the Sovereigns are light weight," ought to do with 2,000l. in and to call them "Tokens." They "the 3 per cents"!!! And, let are not tokens. They are the him remember, that the moment king's coin; and to utter them the reduction is broached seriously under weight or of impure metal is by the gentlemen " in doors,” he felony and treason, and is punish-will begin to weep for not having able with hanging, the malefactor followed my advice, long ago who writes to me from let it not burn, but send it up, and get gold for it. publickly given; which is, to get his money into the king's coin, or into gold bars, and keep it till he sees which way the cat jumps! If there should be (a thing which I tremble to think of!) another stoppage, or a repeal of Peel's and I may as well inform others, Bill, God knows, and he only that I know of no use for Bank I have answered, by post, the friend in Surrey, who asked me whether he ought to take Bank of England Notes to America; of England notes in that country other than that of lighting segars. There are people there to deal in every thing, and, perhaps, a knows, how much paper a Sovereign will buy! And, if there be not another stoppage, and a reduction of the Debt take place, God only knows how much stock pound-note might sell there for a a sovereign will buy. The Mi-quarter of a dollar; but, I should nisters are pursuing the "stern think, not more. Gold, in any 66 path of duty;" and, if they keep in that path, every seven sovereigns now laid by, will purchase an acre of good arable land in less than two years time! shape, may now lawfully be carried or sent out of England. All the laws against it were repealed by Peel's Bill. NEW EDITION-ENLARGED. Just Published, in One_Volume, Octavo, Price 6s. in Boards, If any one have a large Bank of England note, he can change into one-pounders at the Bank,HE APOCRYPHAL NEW which, by a clause in this last act, is compelled to give him ones for it! 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Kensington, 29th May, 1821. attempts against the very existence of that labourer: it has actually produced the savage, notions, respecting the poor, I have very seldom experienced which have, at last, assumed the greater pleasure than that given air of a settled design. Upon all me by your Letter of the 23rd these matters I am about to adof this month. We are always dress you, beginning with that, pleased to find our labours attend-which is so pleasing to me, and ed with effect; to find that our in which the nation at large as words produce acts; to find the well as the farmers are so deeply thing, which we tug at, move. interested, namely, the cultivation In this particular case there are of the Swedish Turnip. 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