An Account of the average amount of all Promissory Notes and Bills of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, which have been in circulation during the quarter ending the 10th day of Oct. 1820, distinguishing the respective denominations and values of the several Notes and Bills, and the average amount of the Notes and Bills of each denomination and value respectively, pursuant to Act 59, George III. Cap. 49, as nearly as the same can be complied with.

£. 8. d. Bank Notes £1. & 2.... 6,721,916 2 2 5..... 3,014,144 10 6 10.. 3,411,662 19 10 15. 141,153 2 8

with 1818.

999,071

1,685,217

90,961

15,000

26,850

7,279

22,492

1,722,709

1,124,161

1,124,161

598,548

20..

1,439,800 1 9

SATURDAY, OCT. 7.

This Gazele god to grant unto Rear

HIS Gazette notifies that the King

admiral Sir David Milne, Knight Commander of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, his license and permission that he may accept and wear the insignia of the Royal Sicilian Order of St. Januarius, and also the Cross of a Knight-Commander of the Royal Military Order of William of the Netherlands, Euop. Mag. Vol. LXXVIII. Oct. 1820.

with which their Majesties the King of the Two Sicilies and the King of the Netherlands, have been pleased to honour the said Rear-admiral, in testimony of the high sense they entertain of the able conduct and signal valor manifested by him as second in command at the memorable attack upon the town and shipping at Algiers, upon the 27th day of August, 1816; also unto Edmund Rufus D'Angleberms, otherwise called Edmund Rufus D'Anglebermes BerBb

and Co. Pinner's Hall, Broad street; (with whom the respectable firm of KEVZER and BROTHERS, 23, Finch-lane, have no connexion:) are reported to that Society as improper to be proposed to be balloted for as Members thereof.

POLAND.-The Speech of the Emperor Alexander to the Representatives of Poland, on opening the Diet of the Kingdom on the 13th September.

Representatives of the Kingdom of Poland, It is with real satisfaction that 1 find myself a second time among you, and with pleasure renew to you the assurances that I follow the impulse of my heart, and carry into execution one of my dearest wishes, when I assemble you here to cooperate in the maintenance and developement of your social institutions,

"My confidence in you has been the origin of these institutions; your confidence in me will consolidate them.

"My object when I gave them to you, was to combine the power of the Sovereign with the intermediate power, with the rights and legal wants of society. I consider these bonds as indispensable; but to be durable, they require a support in want of which every thing earthly decays and degenerates.

Let us not forget that institutions of this kind are only human work. Like man himself they want a support for their weakness, a guide against error, and like him they can only find such a support and guide in Christian morality and its divine doctrines.

You have remained Poles; you bear that bonourable name; but I have told you once before, that only the application of the principles of this beneficent morality can restore to you so honourable a right. Follow, therefore, on your part, these wholesome doctrines: draw from them that source that sense of brobity which they command, both towards yourselves and others; draw from them that love of truth which aims at truth alone, which hears and speaks only her language; then you will powerfully support me in consolidating the work of your regeneration.

"I have spoken to you the words of truth, for it is truth that I ask from you; I wish to hear it from your mouths; let me hear it with frankness, but also with composure and cordiality,

"It will appear to you in full light as soon as you seek it in reality, and not in vain abstractions; as soon as you judge of your situation, according to the testimony of events, and not according to theories, which, in our days, fallen or rising ambition endeavours to bring forward. Lastly, truth will mark your opinions as soon as you regard only the voice of the great interests that are confided to yon; as soon as you banish from your deliberations all acrimony, every partial object, and thus show your

selves worthy of your honourable mission.— Then, and not before, you will have fulfilled your obligations. I will now fulfil wine. My Ministers will lay before you a view of all the measures of organization and administration which have been adopted within these two years. You will doubtless recognise with joy the good which they have efected, when you compare it with all those evils, the deep traces of which were to be effaced. The wish to obtain this object has perhaps not always followed the way which the form of administration that I readily gave you prescribed. Perhaps too urgent and simultaneous wants have caused by their occurrence an increase in thẹ necessary expenditure. My views, however, have not changed, and it is my firm will that in future the regulations once laid down shall be strictly adhered to, and the most scrupulous care he taken to economise the resources of the prayers of the contributions.

"The wishes that you have laid before me have been most seriously considered. You will hear how they have been partly satisfied already, and shall be, in part, fulfilled in future. You will see why it has been necessary to delay the accomplishment of some, to renounce that of others, among those which the Government has willingly granted, and the projects of law which were laid before you,

[His Majesty then enumerates some of those proposed laws which he desires they will thoroughly examine when submitted to their consideration, and concludes as follows]:

"Representatives of the Kingdom of Poland! Shew your country that, supported by your experience, your principles, and your sentiments, you know how to maintain peaceful independence, a pure liberty, under the protection of your laws, Shew your contemporaries that this liberty is a friend to order and its blessings; that you reap the fruits of it, because you know how to resist, and will always resist the insinuations of envy, the danger of example,

"These are countries where use and abuse are placed in one and the same lipe; where the spirit of evil excites the vain want of slavish imitation, and again attempts to recover its dreadful sway. Already it predominates in one part of Europe; glready it heaps these crimes and convulsions on each other.

"Notwithstanding these unhappy events, my system of government will remain always the same. I have drawn its principles from the most profound sense of my duties.

"I shall always fulfil these duties scrupulously. But this would not be perfectly done, if I were blind to the great truths which experience teaches us. Doubtless the age in which we live requires pro

tecting laws as the basis and guarantees of social order: but our age also imposes upon persons the duty of preserving these laws from the mischievous influence of even restless, even blind persons. In this respect a heavy responsibility lies on you as well as on me. It commands you faithfully to follow the path, which your judgment, your upright sense of duty prescribe to you. It commands me frankly to warn you of the dangers that might surround you, in order to defend your Constitution against them; it obliges me to judge of the measures on which I am called, according to their real consequences, not according to the appellations with which party spirit endeavours sometimes to blacken, some. times to adorn them; lastly, it obliges me, in order to prevent the production of evil, and the necessity of violent remedies, to root out the seeds of destruction as soon as they appear.

"This is my unalterable resolution. I will never negociate about my principles, nor eyer submit to consent to any thing that may oppose them.

Poles! The more firmly the paternal bonds are consolidated which unite you for ever with Russia; the more you are penetrated with the considerations which they awake in you; the more will the career which I have opened to you be extended and facilitated. A few steps more under the guidance of wisdom and moderation, marked by confidence and probity, and you will be at the goal of your hopes, and prove by experience that the calm operations of your liberty consolidate your national existence, and establish an indissoluble community of happiness between our two nations, which will afford me a double recompense."

A letter from Messina, dated August 26, says "A conspiracy to fire the town in different quarters has just been discovered here, the object of which was to profit by the disorder thus created, and to deliver it up to the Palermians. Those who are accused of being implicated in this horrible plot, and amongst whom are persons of high rank, are in custody and confined in the citadel."

Advices from Amsterdam, of the 21st Sept. announce the arrival of a courier in that city from Madrid, with the news that the debt contracted by the Spanish government with the Dutch houses, is recognized by the Cortes, who have promised that the interest, becoming due on the 1st of January, 1821, shall be issued in full; and that with respect to the arrears of interest, such regulations shall be made as may be most advantageous for the creditors, and least oppressive to the Spanish nation.

BANK OF ENGLAND.-At a Court of Proprietors on Thursday, Sept. 21, a dividend of 51. per cent. was declared for the half year, ending 10th of Oct. next.

answer to several questions on the supposed delays which have occurred in issuing the New Notes, the Chairman stated that there had been no disappointment in the progress of the plan for manufacturing the notes; a great deal of machinery was necessary, which required time to perfect, and many artists and mechanics were employed, and every body conversant in machinery must know, that some uncertainty attached in practice to the best regulations in theory; but he had the satisfaction of saying, that, though he could not name a fixed and determined period, when the New Notes would be ready for circulation, yet he had every reasou to believe that no very great length of time would elapse before they would be ready.

ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE DUCHESS DE BERRI.-The event so ardently desired by the Royal Family of France, and for which prayers have been offered up to Heaven from every church in their kingdom for the last three month, has at length happily occurred--A Prince is born to the House of Bourbon. The Duchess de Berri was con fined on Thursday, Sept. 29, and on the instant of the delivery of her Royal Highness the happy event was announced to France, by the discharges of twenty four pieces of cannon. The intelligence is said to have reached Calais yesterday, by telegraph, and was brought to London by express. The infant Prince will not hear the ill-omened name of his father, the Duke de Berri, but has, in conformity with the King's promise to the people of Bourdeaux, and by way of reward for their attachment to the House of Bourbon, received the title of the Duke of Bourdeaux.

The following is a copy of the express received from Calais :

CALAIS, Sept. 30, 1820.-" The news is just arrived, per telegraph, of the acconchement of her Royal Highness the Duchess de Berri, of a fine boy-her Royal Highness being as well as can be expected. This happy event took place at five o'clock yes terday morning. They name him Prince of Bourdeaux."

A government order has been issned in Berlin for shutting up the Lodges of Freemasons. It is thought that this measure will be adopted throughout all the other States of Germany; it has excited much surprise in Prussia, where the Freemasons have bitherto been protected by the Government.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia has purchased a house in Connaught-place, which, by her instructions, will be fitted for her reception in a style of great magnificence.

BONAPARTE.-A gentleman, who has recently arrived from St. Helena, saw Bonaparte about a fortnight before his departure. He is grown extremely corpulent, unwieldy and slovenly in his person. He has had a wall built to prevent himself from