Kingston Chronicle (Kingston, ON1819), July 23, 1819, p. 2

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b1c to be a dirsaor who fhall not be a stockholder to the amount of at lead twenty shares vi ii and ke it further cruised ly the authority aforesaid that in cafe it fhould ti any lime happen that an election of directors ihould not b made on any day when purfuant to this adt it ought to have have been made the laid corporation hall not lor that caufc be deemed to be diflblved but that it fhall and may be lawful on any other day to held and make an kleftion of directors in fuch manner as hall havfi beer- regulated by the laws and ordinances of laid corporation ix and be it further enacled by the a thvrity aforesaid that each stockholder ihap be entitled to a number of votes pro portioned to the number of shares which he or fhe hall have held in his or her own name at leall three months prior to the time of voting according to the following katios that is to fay at the rate of one vote for each fyare not exceeding four five votes for fix hares fix votes for eight lhares feven votes for ten fharss and one vote for ever five hares above ten stock holders aaually rcfident within fhe pro vince of upper canadz and none others may vote in eleion by proxy provided always that no perfon copartnership or body politic hall be entitled to more than fifteen vote at any fuch eleftion x and be it further enacted by the au thority aforesaid that it shall be the duty of the directors to make half yearly divi dends of oo much of the profits of the faid bank as to them or a majority of them fhall appear advifeable and that once in every three years and oftener if thereunto required by a majority of the rotes of the stockholders to be given agreeably to th ratios herein before eltablished at a gene ral meeting to be called for that purpofe an exact and particular ftatement of the debts which shall have remained unpaid af ter the expiration of the original credit for a period of treble the term of that cre dit and of the furplus of profits if any after deducting lofies and dividend xi and be it further enacted by the au thority aforesaid that the directors for the time being or a majority of them hall have power to make and fubferibe fuch rules and regulations as to them kail appear needful and proper touching the management and difpofrtion of the lock property eftste and effects of the faid cor poration and touching the duties and con duct of the officers clerks and fervants em ployed therein and all fuch matters as ap pertain to the bulincfs of a bank and mail dfo have power to appoint as many offi cers cle and fervants fot carrying on he faid lofincfs and with fuch falariea and jllrjweww asahus ifav wflwttf provided that fuch rules and regulations be nut tepttgoani to the laws of this province xii and he k further enacted hy the au- ihmity aforesaid that the total amount of the debts which the faid corporation hall at any time owe whether by bond bill note or other contract over and a- bove the monies actually depofited in the hank shall not exceed thiee times the inn of the capftal stock fubferibed and actually psid into the ban and rn cafe of fuch excels ihe directors under whofe adratmftratioa it flull happen hall he lia ble fot the farre in their own natural and private capacities but this hall uot bt con- itrued to exempt the laid corporation or my cftate real or perfonal which they may feold as a body corporate from be ing alfo liable for and changeable with the aid excei but fuch of the directors who may have been abfcnt when the faid ex- cefs was cortraed or who may have drs rented from the fakl refolution or mx hereby the fame was fo ccn trailed may i cfpeftivgly exonerate themfelwes from being fo liable by giving immediate notice of the faft and of their abfence or difleut to the stockholders at a general meeting which they shall have power to call for that pur- pofe xiii and be it further everted hy the authority aforesaid that it fhall not be awful for the faid corporation to iltire ny ote or bill under the value of ten hillings of lawful money of the pro vince of upper canada xiv ari be it further entutfd fie laljority tftoesutd that the lands tc- ments and hereditaments which it hail e lawful for the faid corporation to hold il be only fach as hall be requifite for is immediate rcccmmodation in relation o the convenient- tranfaftion of its buu- cfs or fuch as hall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of fecuriry or con veyed to it in fatisfacticn of debt previ jy contraded n the courfe of its deal lgi or purchafed at ales upon judgments hlch hull have been obtained for fuch cbtb and further the faid corporation j1 not direty or indfreftly deal or ado in buying or felling any goods arcs merchandise or commodities what ever j provided thst nothing herein untamed nau any wise be conflrued to inder the fain corporation from dealing fc ill- of exclfge or in i x bullh gold or silver xv and be k farther enacted by the au- jrity aforesaid that the fhareg of the a capital mock hall be transferable rd may be from time to tric transferred the refpeftiveperfons fo fubferibing the tie provided always that fecfe trans- be entered or regiftcred in a book or ks to be kept fur that purpofe by the rr ors xvi- and is it further enacted ly the ftay aforesaid that the bills obliga artj vf credit under the stal of the r which hall be made to any r oi perfon fhall beafllgnafcle by in vt thereupon under the hand or of fuch perfon or perform aai of faw her or their aflignee or aflignces and fo as absolutely to transfer and veil the proper- ty thereof in each and every afgoee or aflinees fucccfiively and to enable fuch affignec or aflignces to bring and maintain an aion thereupon in his or their own name or names and bills or notes which may be iflued by order of the faid corpora tion figned by the piefident and countcr- figned ly the principal caihier or trca- furer promifing the payment of money to any per ion or perfoni his her or their or der or to bearer though n2t under the eal of the faid corporation hall be bind ing and obligatory upon the game in like manner and with the like force and cffei as upon any private perfon- or perfons if iflued by him her or them u his her cr their private or natural capacity or capa- ticsand kill beaffignable and negotiable in like manner as if they were fo iftucd by fuch private perfon or perlons- xvii and be it furiher enacted by the authority aforesaid that every calhier and clerk before he enters into the duties of his office hall give bond with two or more furcties in fuch fum as may be iatisfaory to the director wth condition for the faithful difcharge of uis duty xviii and be it further enatlcd ly the authority aforesaid that the faid corpora tion fhall not demand any greater entered on any uan or difcount than at the rate of fix per centum per annum xix and be it frlher enacted by ihe authority aforesaid that the directors excepting the pieftdent hall not be enti tled to any emolument for their ferviccs and that feven directors hall coullitute a board for the traniaclion of bufinefs of whom the prcfdent fhall be one except in the cafe of ficknefs or abfence in which cafe the diteor prefeot may choofe a chairman for the faid meeting xx and be it further enacted by the au thority aforesaid that the faid bank hall be cuabiimed and the buildings neceltary ge or in buying or ftll- per- and te fhricc oi all commodities by the excessive issue of their incon vertible paper mt one moment and by the cofmtactioii of it in the next this power which was not iven to the tiironc par liament would uio longer confide in the direction of a company of bankers and all connection between them and the go- vernrnenfc must be dissolved the afornev gerreral had introduced into the house of commons a bill to prevent the enlistment of british subjects in rive service ef foreign states vtitlrout the permission of their own government iaris papers received in lordon to lire 2jh of may amuource that a second prejet of a law on the press has psimd in the cuambcvof peers by a majority of l83 to oi accounts from hamburgh up to the c of may state that rhe reports in the ffecnch papers of misunderstandings be tween sweden and other northern pow ers is without foundation and that no proposition had been made to charies john to ab- icftte the throne the ru mour of sucft a proposition having been made is contemptuously contradicted in ait offi ial articic in tho stockholm ga zehe an arficle under the hrd of st pe- tersbntgh april sotb says u there is an active exchange of couriers between our court and that of stockholm but no one yet knows what is in ngiution and all that foreisn journals circulate on tire subject only ret upon vague stippo- sitiorr c 3xwl fi is appointed gover nor of the is of st jhrhtopher and sir s f ivhhtiohani governor of the island ofst dominica prince leopold armed hi england on oes8tb of may a letter from roe of the i oth of may mates that tlit- town ot tunis has luthalfofits inhabitants hy the plague the letter adds mat the terror of the couragement to the rmpcrrtatlon of amc- rican produce but profpes thus far for the enfuing vintage are good and fruit will be better and cheaper than last year a letter from spain dated may 15 fays the expedition confiding of 50000 troops is expefted to fail from cadiz in the courfe of a month its ob- je is to make a final attempt for the re duction of the rebellion by finking a blow upon every one of the revolted provinces at once and ths endeavour to terminate the conteft the command is to be given o the marquis dyiujo anxiety is feen in the countenance of every spaniard who wither far the end of the civil war while he lecrctly breathes 2 prayer for the die- cefs of the patriots thirty guineas each defend 08 from the fashion for the accommodation thereof erected pmvhafed or leafed and the bufruefs there- ww ihwjj l ead of at all times hereafter tranfaaed at fuch scoure nws has arrrvej of an ru- place in the town of kingfton d4 the di- reflors or the majority of them may ap point provided always so foon a9 it may be deemed expedient branches of the faid bank and offices of depofit and dif- ceunt may be authorised by the faid di rectbifl cfr the majority of them in any other parts of the laid province under fuch rules and regulations as the faid direftors or the majority of them may thii k proper uot repugnant to the general rules of tie corporation xxi and be it further enacted by th amthority aforesaid that if at any time uf ter the pafsngof this act the faid piefident dirtcumk compgfly fliuuij rcfufv on d mand being made at their banking houfe or any branch or brandies hereafter to he establifhed d tiling the hour of doing bufi nefs to redeem in fpecic cr other lawful money of this province their faid bill- notes or other evidences of debt iflued by the faid company the faid preiidcnt directors and company fhall on pain of forfeiture of their chatter wholly dilcon- tiiue their f aid tiankiog operations either by way of difcount or ether wile until fuch time as the prefidtnl directors and com pany fhall rcfume the redemption of their bills- ntes or other evidences of debt in fpecie 0 other lawful jiioney of this pro vince xxii and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that il hall and may be the duty of the prefident and calhier of faid bank for the time being to make a return under cath to the piovircial parliament once in each year if required by the legiilative council orjoufe of aflcmbly which return fhall contain a full and true account of the funds and proper ty of the faid banx the amount of its capita stock fubferibed and paid the a- mount of debts due to and from the jaid bank the amount of the bills and notes emitted by the faid bank in circulation and the amount of the specie in the faid bank at the time of making iuch returns xxiii and he it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that this act be and is hereby declared to be a public act and that the fame may be confirmed as fuch in llw majeftys courts of this province xxiv and he it further enacted hy the authority aforesaid that this present act of incorporation hall in no wife be for feited by any nnnufer whatever at any time before the full day of january qie thou- land eight hundred and twenty two surrection amonir the arabs in the inte rior atrd they are about to march against the capital tothe number of 15000 horse men c3mmandtd by a tripotitffu named califtr-el- haver the tuuiinn niirris- a letter from italy dated the xch of april u many conjcaures as to the real object of the emperor of auftrias vsu though probably it is to obtain the popes fanftion to the divorce of maria louifa from- bonaparte and the marriage of the former with the king of pruflia contem plated london may 26 an attempt cr the duke of tot on tucfday lail a man by the name of dea- ny was examined at bowllreet london he had been found in the duke of yorks houfe near his bed chamber after hfs royal highnefs had retired to rcil uc was difcovered by the page as he alfo was grmig to bed and had he entered only a minute later he would have got uninter rupted to the dukes chamber he had entered over the garden wall from the green park by means of a large fione lied to a rope which he threw over the wall his plea wa that he had written in vain to the duke informing him i his dis- trels and having bee denied admittance by the porter at the front door he had re- courfe f the expedient defcribed in order to have an interview with his itoyal high- nei he was committed to bridewell as a vagrant the unfortunate man attempted feme lime tince to drown limfclf ia the canal in st jamess park copenhagen may 1 1 we obferve that all the journals of eu- ter had put himself ai llm of d bod rooe are deeply occupied with our fecrct of troops ami marched to repel the inva- drfcuffions with sweden mod of them indulge in conjsures wnich are carried to inch extravagance that a throne h com- promrfed in the quarrel we think we oiay affirm that not one of the guaran teeing ourts of the treaty of keil has propofed to the inr charles xiv to elhblifh himfclf in lefs northern climates but we alfo thiik we can aitcrt that he is avongly invited to pay the debts acknow ledged by ihe fefd treaty the affair will ht regulated at london by the min- ifters of the great powers it has been faid that charles xiv ha addreffed a letter to the prince regent in which he forcibly complains of the oppreflion of certain couits latest from europe by the june packet ship courier ar rived on ibo loth lost nt ewvork in s7 days fron liverpool london papers to the 29th and liverpool to trie 31t may iru luivo had bvn received the kingdom of great britain is fur- nwhed with another presumptive heir to the throne in the birth of a daughter to the duchess of kent this event took place on the morn ins of the 24th of may the ilepoi t of i he bank committee i as ductsed at great length in fhe british parliament on the 24th and 25th of may the discussion terminated in the adop tion oi a number of resolutions confor- maole foihe spirit of that report lord clrenvillc in the house of peers deciartd that he rrow regreted supori- inthe rtvtrtctiou act in 1707 he ob served tlial the facilities which it had af forded to ministers towards the continu ance of the lnuj war were more iran c inrorbaliitired by the distresses it had brought on fheeonntry mul fhal no ur gency eotild in his mind sanction the p cbtfni of putting into the leuids of th hiurk lirfctitrs the power of chang ing a mrirpiavkx the value of all pro- sion london fflfrjf 29 letter from malta dated oril flth communicates some alarming particulars relative to the plague which it wa feared would be introduced into some of the neighboring islands before the ei the sumrrrer it h romltrdth rg iggrtissf will be shipped from i to fih aaiist thcranso1 th j south america a great maiy 0 uhorn a waterloo men a committee of mhants had been formed in london for ej purpose of op- posingthebill nowpas through the house of commons tv prohibit foreign enlistments extract of a letter du cadiz may 3d received in loftdoir may 28th u every one here had evperted that all th sips intended fo he expedition wond hove sailed together for the sub jugation of the revolted colonics this docs not appear howetar to be the crsc as orders have just reached ihh place from xiadridj for two lino of battleships and a frigate to sail inmediately and they will get awnybytto 8ih or lorh of tliis month li irnpo ibleto iy when the other vessels may slil lolot rfay 2 wo have received tlii morning the pa ris papers of saturday ust in the cham ber of deputies 1 11 lh- pveuejih dry the discussion on tin atrootits of minis ter was continued o che proposition for a sum of 2200000 frfftwrs paid to england in execution of a treaty for re deeming the seizures made by our army at bordeaux m beugnot inquired whe ther any of the merchandize so seized was prittfe property in which cjre he afiinnud that it would he illegal to re deem it with the public money the minister of iinancc replied that at bordtaex and in all the towns euter- e fry tifc gik rnv ihey had only seized what was rktluvely the property of the forme government lo-don- may 29 the exchange both on paris and on hamburgh continires fo rise irr favor of this country the effect has been sensi bly felt iu the market for bullion which depends so materially 011 the state of the exchanges that in the expectation of a further rise literally no sales could be made from the boston pauadiuri july 9 late from gibraltar capt covill of the bjg adamant who arrived yefterday left gibi altar on the 3d of june and informs that spain had ratifi ed the treaty with the united states ce ding the fioridas and providing for certain american claims and prefumes that the hornet had failed frovi cadiz for new- york with the ratification capt c alfo informs that about the 2ctfi of may a patriot privateer being in chafe of a spauifh vcftcj run on the rocks two or three miles to the wcflward of ta- rifla and bilged the crew attempted to eleape in tluir boats but were purfued by spanilh launches and ill made prifoner except the commander who rather than be taken threw himself overboard and was drowned he bad much fpecie in his pofftfiion and there wa- faid to be a large fum on board the privateer a merchant in malaga in a letter to his correspondent in this town may 8 writes u our markets do by mo means give en- from a london paper may 2 2 a brief but mod animated and intend ing discussion has taken place in the french chamber of deputies on the petitions for recalling the whole body of exiles li with out distinction of clafses uc rejoice as the well wifhers to the happinefs of france that the queftion has been fairly met that the decision has been promptly made and j that the fpirit evinced by the government has been accompanied by a display of jufl and loyal feeling on the part of the national representatives which fcarce- ly any other fubjett could have afforded either party so fit an occasion of addressing to france 01 to the world the que i ton was whether she king should be desired to lecall indiscriminately rst the traitors againfr his own crown and perfon 2ndly the murderers of his brother the com mission appointed to report upon the fob- jeft had voted 5 to 4 for palling to the order of che day m coumartin one of the minority recommended by a speech the referring the petitions to the president of the council of ministers the keeper of the feals fettled the mat ter by declaring that with refpeft to thofe of the exiles who had been banifhed for fuch a period only as the public fafety might require their abfence from france their treatment might be fafely confided to the royal clemency but for the regi cides never flnll they return except in fuch cafes of age or weaknefs as the king may be pleafcd to confider worthy of indulgence on grounds of common hu manity i demand the order of the day the effect produced by this manly declar ation hjs- feljom been ecffialled even amongll french affemblies some violent members of the cote gauche ftrove to raife their voices in reply but the chamber would not hear them this difcufiion was clofed by an immenfe majority and the order of the day proceeded in by the fame feme 20 deputies on the extreme left compofing the whole oppofition thus has this great queftion been fet at reft france releafed from perfevcring intrigues and europe from perpetual alarms the maid of orleans this baautifu vssel was built at phi- ladelphia and is equally intended for river and sea navigation the latter by sails the former by steam power she came to new orleans schooner riggcf ascended the mississippi y steam ami is the iirit vessel which has arrived at st louis from an all ami port- men oi reflection meu who otaeive the progress of human affairs frtll murk this event will follow the voi oi this vessel on the map and vill sec in its i sue the commencement of that new order of things which is to line the batiks of the mis sissippi with sea port h is and to raiic up at certain commanding points com mercial cities rivalling the greatest of hose which the shore exhibits they will mark the outset of this vessel leav ing her port in the north latitnds 40 de grees sailing down the gulf of 3exico entering it and quitting it again to pe netrate by a noble rner the ioteriot ad central parts cf tha norfhameriean continent arrived at st louis after an ascent of 1600 milss they will sec her almost it- thy latitude from which she set out and having noted what ie iras done will cast forward their eyes to see what she might do looking up the missouri thev would see that 1000 miles more would take her to the manda villages ixbovc the latitude of quebec thai poo more would carry her west to the liriit fall of the missouri river look- in uo the mississippi they would see that 1o0u miles would carry her to the falls of st anthony rn the latitude cf ver mont whence a canal of half a mifeitt the bead of the river itoi voaid en able her to enter the caspian sa of north america looking up the illi nois they would see that sooouies wout carry her to the gate w lilcfe i to open the michigan lake itito the valley of mississippi nrhenc by a chain of inland seas and the caftai clinton ihen fin shed she might arrive by a circumnav igation of many thousand miles at the point from which she sailed suth are the lines of water cormnunicsttion such the means of commercial iiitereourse formed by nature in the magnificent re- gtons of the missouri and misslsmppij and of hieh there is none parallel on the face of the globe st l en hfaiculasiwm mss sir humphrey davy ha- recently dis covered that chemistry ainon- its other practical application iiy bi employed foment idfaflfa- ill inirodueina iho bis3 of bcrcalancom us first experi ments were made upon some broken pit ces of manuscript which had been pre sented to him and finding that his pro cess would effectually separate the lami na without impairing the character he communicated his success to the prince regent and was immediately enabled to proceed to naples for the prosecution of that work lie has drawn up a re port of his proceedings j erich is inserted in the last number vf the quarterly journal atrd he appears to have retur ned with a full conviction that he has supplied the great desideratum for sepa rating the leaves of thete mss without mutilating their texture or destroying their contents what his process i he thinks it prudent to conceal leti the pros pect of its advantages might jae ruined by the abortive attempts cf umkilful operators the present mode of separating the leaves is this pices of goldbeaters skin are attached tj the upper leaf by an izinglass paste small cords attach these pieces of skiu to wooden screws above and then by turning the screws the upper leaf is gradually drawn from fue mass this is a clumsy operation and commonly mutilates or destroys three fourths of the leaves the number of ms found is 1696 of these nb have been unrolled and are legible 316 hare been operated upon but are illegible and the remaining 1265 are fragments mutilated or crush ed the greater part of the 88 are the- w ov s of gttttv phu osoph e rs afta vo- phists and consist chiefly of treatises- upon natural and moral philosophy me dicine criticism the arts manners aud life thre are 9 works of epicurus 3 of philodemeus 3 of demetrius 1 of colotes 1 of tolystratus 1 of car- neades j and 1 of chrysippus phil union in the debate in the honfe of lords may 21 on thefuhjeft of bankreftriftions lord lauderdale fard it was undeniable that oc6oooooo of britih gold had very re cently been exported to fiance and the mioifter of finance at paris had admitted that french gold had been iftued to about that amount coined from englilh fove- rcigns walter scott is ftated to have realized jf 7 2000 within tlie lai 12 years by his literary labors leghorn hats of a new fabric have been introduced among the fashionables in the british metropolis which fell as high aa singular instance of bodily strength r louis xiv was in flanders his coach iu crossing very bad pari of the road sunk so dth p in the mud that all the horses and uxen that could be yoked to it were not able to extricate it as the nave of one of the wheels was en tirely hid one of the kings guards named barsabas impatient of being au idle spectator of this scene inimediareiy dismounted from his horse lifted up tiie wheel and giving a signal to the coach man to whip up his horse soon disenga ged the carriage for this piece of ser vice louis xiv gave him a pension and he soon became major of valenciennes- after he had risen to this rank a cas con whocuarrelled with him acred to fight him i agree said bursa bac holding out his hand touch that up on which the gascon stretched out his but the major squeeed it so hard that he broke some of hs infers niu rend 1- ed him entirely incapable of fighting another gascon on a like occasion took advantage of this exnmpie and instead of complying when ljiuliiu deued

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