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different ministries, which were not yet exactly known, 1 but which could not be estimated at less than five hundred millions ; the total amount of the above mentioned anticipations and arrear would therefore be 1,30.1,469,000 francs, It to this be added the creation of 17 millions of pnrpetual annuities, representing . a capital of three butidred and forty millions, of which one half indeed has been employed in the payment of debts anterior to the year 8, we shall have the sum of 1,645,4.6'2,000 francs, as the total of the increase of the debts of the State during tlle course of 13 years. This computation is doubtless alarming ; but the evil is not without remedy. The Minister of Finance will explain to you what sums are immediately de mandable, what can only be demanded at periods still distant, and those which resolve into a simple charge of interest. Our only business has been to pres;.nt an exposition of the actual state of the king dom : and in fulfilling this painful though important task, we have concealed nothing : the documents ad joined contain the details and the proofs of the facts which we have summarily sketched. They will thew you the principle of activity which France has con stantly maintained amidst all her losses • you will be astonished to see so fertile and well cultivated those fields which have been long exposed to every kind of devastation. If alarmed at the debt of Government, you will still see on the other hand numer' is capital s in the hands of individuals, ready to eater 'nto every useful enterprise. But the cares of Government will not be confined to the restoration of a prosperity purely physical: ether sources of happiness and of glory have been cruelly assailed. Morals, like public wealth, could not escape the pernicious influence of a bad Govern ment. That which has terminated increased to their utmost the moral calamities caused by the revolu tion; it only re-established religion to make it a tool; public education was subjected to the same state of dependence; it must resume a more liberal tendency to place it on a footing with the intelligence of Eu rope. Unhappily, we cannot also restore at once to France those moral habits, and the public spirit, which cruel misfortunes and long oppression have there almost annihilated ! Noble sentiments were oppressed, generous ideas were stifled ; the Govern. silent, not content with condemning to inaction the virtues which it dreaded, excited and fomented the passions which could do it service ; to suppress public spirit, it called personal interest to its aid ; it offered its favours to ambition in order to silence conscience; it left no other state but that of serving it, no other hope but what it could alone fulfil ; no ambition appeared discreet, no pretension exaggerated ; hence that in cessant agitation of all interests and of all wishes ; hence that instability of situation which left hardly any man the virtues of his condition, because all thought only of emerging from it : hence, in fine, in cessant attacks upon every kind of probity by seduc tions against which the most generous characters could hardly defend themselves. such were the melancholy effects of that corruptive system which we have now to combat. The difficul ties of the moment are great, but much may be ex pected from time; the nation will feel that its zealous concurrence is necessary to hasten the return of its own happiness ; its confidence in the intentious of its King, the lights and wisdom of the two chambers, will render the task of government more easy. If any thing can prevent the speedy realization of these hopes, it will be that restless turbulence which wishes to enjoy, without delay, the blessings of whiCh at has the pro - rzt. Air bile regretting the benefits which most still be waited for, let us enjoy those which are offered to our acceptance ; already peace re-opens our ports ; liberty restores to the merchant his speculations, and to the mechanic his labours ; every one sees the end of his calamities. Can we be indifferent to this future repose, after h tvilg so long lived amidst storms and al arms ? You, Gentlemen, will not be insensible to this consideration. The King confides equally in his people and in their deputies, and Fiance expects every thing from their generous union. Ott the order of the Chamber, this Exposition, with the accompanying documents, was ordered to Fe printed, and six copies to be given to each Member. PARIS, JULY 13. The King was confined to his toom yesterday, and could not be present at Mass. The indisposition is supposed to have arisen from the fatigue of pump ing and bathing,..which his )Majesty has followed for wine time. Two hundred French Officers, who were prisoners in Englaucl,..landed at Calais on the 10th lrom an English vessel. They write from that place, that the arrival of English families, who come to visit - France, continues with unremitting activity. His rminence Cardinal Gonsalvi astiv,d in Pais on the 9th. Whilst in Lond: -, :i he had an andi, nce of the Prince Regent. He was also inn odeced to the fo reign Princes who were there .tt t!le time. It is said, that he received even from the EngPsh Protestants marks of reTect for his dignity, and of esteem for his personal quarties. r.rs Majesty, always anxious to repair, as much as can, the evils inseparable from war, and particu krly the losses sustained by a multitude of farmers, eijered the Marquis of Verner, Director of the Royal Stables, to distribute 130 horses and mules amongst the farriers of the Department of the Marne, who have suffaed most. It i; :cited, that the Council of his Serene High- Pri:lce of Coude is frmed, and consists of Trite LalAnc, ns Pre,ident of the Council ; of M. Roden de Mainville, as Intendant of the Fi nanees and of M. Bella, as Advocate to the Court. !ENNA, JULY 3. f).l wing arrangements have been officially ....~~.t. kt:c,w I);.: rips the sojol:rn cf the fAreign rnonirchs, who e::p.2;tcd to arrive here in a few days, his Majes ty prop' ics to give to the Court some fetes, to which the public will he adrui•ted. These fetes will consist, I st, of a grand court ball, to which 8 or 10,000 persons will be admitted ; 2d, of a dressed ball of 1000 persuns, and 3d, of a grand con cert for a similar number. The cards fur these fetes will be delivered by a commission specially appointed fs:r that purpose. Our paper currency continues to fall. The reason s:s . s;gned is, that large sums have been lately drawn from 1..(4nd0n upon this place, which were paid in specie ; this is a very unfortunate circumstance, and embarrasses considerably the operations of Govern ment. FRANKFORT, JULY 9. We expect to-morrow or the next day, the Empe ror and Empress of Russia ; but their Majesties in tend to make no stay. and will immediately continue their journe, for Weimar. BERLIN, JULY 5. A great number of strangers have already bespoke lodgings for the great Fetes in the month of August. The preparations are on the most magnificent scale, and worthy the auspicious event which has re-esta blished the former grandeur of the Monarchy. We had yesterday the pleasure of seeing the first troops, returning from the army, enter here. Their Royal' Highnesses Prince Charles of Prussia and the Duke of Cumberland, and General Lestocq (the Governor of our city) went some distance to meet them. SMYRNA, JUNE 2. The plague has nearly destroyed our trade causes great destruction. Twenty thousand Turks, and ten thousand Greeks, Armenians, Jews, &c. have already died. Five hundred are sw.pt away daily. In short, our city, which lately contained a popula tion of 180,000 persons, resembles a desart. We hope that the heat of the dog-days will deliver us from this horrible calamity. THE EVENING STAR. 1 - 40 N DON. MONDAY, JULY 18, 1814. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY ,AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. • Reduced 6811—Cons. 6811 —for ace. 691 i 70 4 per Ct. 64i-5 per Ct. Navy 961 97—Omn. 2131 pre. Bank Long Anus. 161. 1 1-1 6ths--India Bondi, Us. Lis. pre. Exchequer &Us, Ss. ss. pre. By a Mail which arrived from Holland this morning we have received a supply of Dutch P.lpers, from which we select the followir.g articles : " BRUSSELS, JULY to. " Since the return of Lord Lynedock it seems pro bable that England will, for the present, assist in the expense of our army, which is organizing with great success.—A plan is making for a line of fortrets?s to cover our country, from the Maese to the North Sc;a It is to begin at Namur, and to comprehend Char leroi, Mons, Tournay, Courtray, Menin, Ypres, and Veurue. 44 All the Prussian troops, except the sick, have left the Netherlands. " The Hotel of the Marine Prefecture, and other French property, at Antwerp, is to be sold this week.• The articles of the treaty relating to the magazines, &c. wi►l be immediately executed. " We hope soon to see a Prince among us who is destined to have in future great influence in our fate. " We are very desirous to see the end of the Pro vis;onal Government. Prince EucLsL has arrived at Munich." SSIYItNA, JUNE 2. The plague continues to make unheard of ra vages. It is calculated ihat up to this day from 20 to '25,000 persons have died of it. All the markets, Bazar, and shops are shut, and our city seems almost deserted." •• CONtiI'ANTINUFLE, JUNA-0. " The troubles in Widdin are nut yet settled.-- Alii Bassa, who besieged Parga, having witlidrAri: his troops to oppose the Beglerbeg of ltenie;:a, t‘lio was approaching with 12,0(X) men, the people over powered the weak French garrison and hc;s!ed the English colours, and gave up the place to an Eng lish frigate that was before the port. Tile tan:e is ssid to have happened at Prevzsa." An outcry has been raised against the New Alia Act, and we are gravely told that in this free corm try it would be an abuse of power to maintain con troul or superintei dance over foreigners. We think the strictest vigilance ought to lie exer cised over all Aliens ; and cur only objection to the Bill is that it will not be found sufficiently effective to ensure that protection against foreign swindlers, to which this country has been too long exposed. The Bill provides that a declaration is to be made at the port of all Aliens arriving in the kingdcm ; but immediately on their arrival the Alien may depart instantly to any part of the kingdom, by a certificate, which he can demand of the Collector of the Cos toms, against whom there is a }navy penalty it not granted accordingly. Nothing more is known of this Alien during his residence in the country, and he em barks at the same or any other port, in the like expe ditious manner, by declaring to the Custom-house of ficer that he is embarking. These declarations of names at tl.c ports, arc the only information that can be derived for the knowledge of the Secretary of state ; so that he may know a post or two after the arrival of a suspected character, that he is in the country, and he may also know, when he has depart ed the country, that he is gone. Surely it would not be too much fur the Secretary of State to have some controul over the departure of foreigners, by approv ing of these departures before sailing, when it might be inconvenient to create a delay of obtaining regular pasports from the chief office.—Neither would a re gistry of the certificates of arrival, at the Quarter Ses sions, under the magistracy, wherever they might be domlciliated, be any wise more coercive than what any British subject must comply with when travel ling abroad, in the most friendly nations. The Act also lays a penalty on Captains of vessels not declaring their passengers on arrival ; if this is necessary, why should the Captain be able to take passengers away without a declaration ? in point of po licy, the departing deserves to be more strictly watch ed than that of arriving. The Bill seems defective in its mole of enforcing even a compliance with the Act, by making it necessary to bringlthe action in the • Court of King'sßench for the recovery of the penalty. Has not a board of magistracy sufficient judgment or ju.tice to enforce it ? In a word, the present Bill is copied, in substance, from the Act of 1802, of which Mr. ADDINGTON, in the House on Friday acknowledged the inefficiency. The source of this may be easily accounted for : the Alien Police was then a new System. It has since gained experience, nor can we doubt that with a little patience and care, the public might be benefited by this experience, and protected by a Bill suited to the. new circumstances in which we are placed. We are still at war with America ; and many of the worst characters upon the face of the earth—men which their native land wishes to vomit forth, row wait for the pivileze of polluting the soil of this happy country with their abhorred presence. The danger to be apprehended from the moral contamination of such wretches—not to speak of their dishonest frauds, on which we could say much, is very great. Look at the Exiiosi of the present state of France given in our columns this day—a state produced by the fermenting and fermented leaven of the vile wretches, against whom we ought to g s sard ourselves—Look at this Expose; and let any one say whether the present demoralised state of Europe does not require stronger guards for our safety against the presence of such wretches among our unsuspecjpg poputailamAktiti ant held' out iitr the New en ' Act ?—The Government owes the people the prote - e-1 tion to which we allude, and we hope that the 8.11 ill be so far amended as to secure it for them. The Raped to which we have Alt:Jed deserves the particular attention of all who duty appreciate the importance of sound public morals to the welfare of a na:ion. With such a picture bd.ire us, are die flood gates to be opened to permit, 5% ithout restraint, the contaminating flow of political and moral pestilence ? Let us learn by others' harm," and by a s igorous ' Police endeavour at least to stem the torrent. :s there any other country on the face of the earth into which the vilest of miscreants are permitted to enter and take up their residence w•ithcut being under the eye of the Police ? Net one. The inference is obvious. The Notilieur of the 14th contains a speech made by M. JAc.tacnr, in the Chamber of Deputies, on the I lth, concluding with a proposition for addressing the King, paying for a projet of a law for abolish ing the Drair Ruth, and imposing taxes specifically on wine, beer, cyder, &c. in the room of the sup pressed duties. Papers from Madrid of the 28th ult. have reached town. They supply a long document issued under the royal authority, far the re-establishment of the dark tribunal of the inquisition, and all the intarior duties under the distinction of the Rentas Provincials, have been restored in the finance department, which insp,itiogOtave occasioned- much dissatisfaction throughout the country. WiNnson, Jur.v 17.—Yestetd.iy morning, her MA. JESTi. accornp:in:ed by the Princences A LAU:STA, ELI. and M A :ZY, WCnt to CrAnhoorn LoJge, %%here °ley were rveCived by Gini!ral (I.lllTit, and Cotenel SrgettrxsoN. The Qurts: and PLINCNV.VS prcceedea to view and give directions respecting the apartments which are repairing fur the recepti:lti of tbe Princess Cut A itcoTrE. . _ A Grarff 8411 is to be given Ct: ton House on I day next. lire I: tst India Directors entertained the Dote of Wri.t.usiros at dinner, ,t Sat• , r,lay, at tile City L0n414 n Tay.:rn. Four of the Royal Duk;ol., and :di the Cabinet MiakterF, were present. Yesterday between one and two o'cleck the Dike Of WELLINGTON visited the PRINCE REGENT AL Carl. ton How.e. The Noble Duke went on horseback; his gloom was recognized by the public, and a crowd was collected about the gates in Pall Mall, and on his Grace coming out they gave hint three cheers. The election of a Member for Grampouni, in the room of Mr. Coco AYE JoussTov, tN./k plAce on Wednesday. The Candidates were EEENIZF.R Cor.t.ErT, Esq. Pnd Mr. Mot:TAot - e. The numbers were, for Mr. Cou.rrr, 45 ; Mr. MoNTtsocE, 5 ; upon v.-hich Mr. COLLETT was declared duly elected. A letter from Copenh.yen ot the sth instant, says, it was currently reported, and generally credited, in Sweden, that the Cnows PRINCE intends to procure a divorce from his present spouse, and to enter into a m3trimonial union with one of the Emperor ALEX ANDER'S sisters. By letters from America, it appears that tha expe dition which did so much mischief in the Connecticut River, on the WI of April, was planned by the Hon. Captain CAPE,., of la Hogue, who intrusted the exe cution of it to Captain RICHARD Coors, of the Loup Cervier (now the Peacock). He had with him four boats and 136 men, with which he ascended the Con necticut River some miles, to a place called Petit Pogue, where he burnt and dc%troyed 27 ships and vessels, amongst which Here five privateers, some letters of marque, and some East India ships, amount ing, in the whole, to 5,090 tons, and carrying 134 guns, togethff with their sails, cordage, stores, work ing -sheds, ana tools, with a loss on our part of only two men killed and two wounded ; and there were no desertions, plundering, nor any kind of disuaceful or disorderly actions whatever. The enemy collected more than 2,000 troops, with field-pieces, to intercept our gallant little band in the boats on their return down the river; b.ut Captain Coors eluded them by dropping down with the tide after dark, for which he waited some hours, and his retreat was a; masterly as any part the achievement. To give some idea what the A mericans thought of this enterprise, we quote the following extract from The Connecticut Ga• tette of yae 12th April :•• 14 Thus ended an Expedi tion ac nieved with the smallest possible loss to the enemy, and greatest in magnitude of damage that has occurred on the seaboard of the Uni•ect Etates . ifrace the comsnencetwat of the war," E ARM. RAMRCATR, JULY 16.—The transport brig British Union EC, R. Roason, master, arrived here from Calais last evening, with part of the 10th Regiment of Cavalry, landed theliorses in the morning ; sailed again immediately for Boulogne. JULY 17.—The Lord Wellington, Elizabeth, acd Symmetry transports, arrived here this morning with part of the 13th and 16th Light Dragoons on board, from Calais. DOVER, JULY 17.—The following transports arri ved here yesterday and to-day from Calais and Bou logne, with about 1700 men and horses belonging to the 10th, 15th, 16th, and 18th Light Dragoons: TRANSCORTS' NAMlS.—Diveia J. G.; lane, R. F.; Hope, G. E.; Choice,!..; Ceres, 398 ; David, P.; Plviot, 0. ; Eritart nia, U. R.l Mary, H.; Antelope, B. I.; Hero, L; Phea.tint, A. L ; Persverance, K. I.; Norfolk, C T.; Ceres, G. W.; Hope, E. 0.; Lord Wellington, 465; Sovereign, 225 ; Mentor, J. T.; Eclipse, K. A.; Spenee, 2211 ; Fortune, H. K.; Eurppe ' E. K. ; George and H.LITIOI, W. I.; Free Briton, W. T. ; Garland L. M.; Kingston, E.W. ; Ruby, 987 ; Prince Regent, 3it.l; Conte3t,A.l3.; James 1.1 7 ; and the Ariel, 600. We understand the following regiments are to be stationed in Scotland, on their return from rrance and Holland :—the Royal Scots (4,th battalion) ! 42d, 71st, 79.d,79.d, 74th, 78th, 78th, 91st, 93J, and 94th. In the event of the temporary barracks at Musselburgh being broken up, the Royals will march t) Berwick upon Tweed. The gallant 23d Regiment, who have been serving with the immortal WELLINGIOI4, and were lately landed at Plymouth from Bourdeaux, marched into Southampton on Friday. on their route to Potts aGattered colours bespoke their ser -ficet. ;They were welcomed witti checii and Le tinging of bells. NAPA.. IN7I6LLIGEN"CE. FALmouni. JULY i 5. Arrived yesterday the Dutch ship Oceanus ; from Amelia Isial:ct, and the Frieno4, BEST, from St. Jean de Luz. Arrived to-d'ay, the Francis Freeing packet with a Mail from Bourdeaux, in ten days.— Sailed yesterday the Speedy packet with a Mail fir Lisbon and the Brazils, awl his Majesty's shipVEsrA un a crti;z , . Sailed tr-Jay his Majesty's ship BnAstaut on a cruise.—Wind variable, fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 17. Saled yesterday the CANSO armed Et.ho ,- •ner, for the Coast of America, with dispatches ; his Majesty's ship GRIPER, with a fleet of transport; for the Coast of France, and Passages ; the MILFORD for Plymouth and his Majesty's ships SPARRMV, RENARD, TERIAIi t and HiNoosTAst store ship, with about forty sail under convoy for Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean, but they are at anchor again in Cowes Roads.— Arrived his Majesty's ship RAPID from the Westward. Cam e into hit boor the BoNse ClT'An':E.—rae3ent convoy, his Majesty's ship Islncy:trlc.Nr, fur the West Indies and Bertunda.—Wind East. DEAL JULY 17. _ _ _ Sailed the JASON frigate for tiqulogne, and the BERNIUDA Ellqp cf . war en a cruize—ltemain hi Mt. jesty's ships Mut:mourn, Ito3Atan, and C0a10a.1.%. The IMPP.RIEUSIL, Hen. Captairi Doscam, wal re lieved from quarantine, at Portsmouth, oir Saturday morning. She sailed from Genoa no the 31.:t . ./1!y for Palermo, and left that place on the 13 It June every thing was then quiet in Sicily—the Parham, or has just arrived from Cub a . had ßy : l. th Geu en t?e s t sz a held. who we ler.rn, that three or four slave ships arc iiuiog out at the Havannalo under Spanish colours openly.— There was a fi-igate at the same port, which had brought five milions of dollars from the Cont:i:ent. In other respects, the naval force there con,isted of only armed sloops, and a few vessels of infer for mag nitude, and these were wholly inadequate to afro,a protection frem the numerous maritime t!eoredators. At Pings, a small ',land to the south of Cuba. in habited only by a few qtepheeds, there ss..c a sort of depot for such plunderers. In the port of France, as it is called, there were two ships belonging to persons of this - description; the one under the United Stares' colours—the other under those of Carthagena, so that if an English trader appeared, it was taken by 11:e former, and if a Spanish vessel, it was captured by the latter. The seas, in that rzialibourhood, swarm with ships of the same character. The communications from Rouen of the 14th re present coffee and sugar as almost unsaleable; but as the cotton manufactures were in great activity, t. e r.tw material was in demand. It was expected that the importation of British cotton in Spain would Le prohibited by a royal edict, which would be Uglily favou able to French industry. To THE CI'ItIOUS IN STi.VE, CIIFENIIOIJ-E, A:.13 EXOTIC PLANTS. — Mr. COCIIIIAN most respectfuoy begs leave to inform the Nubility, Gentry, and the Public in general, that he will put up for Sale, bn Monday, the 25th instant, that roost curious arsd unique Collection of Plants from all Countfe s, great expense, by Mr. Titostas EVANS I Clombie-rom . , Commercial-road, Stepney, whose eminence as a C. 1- lector is well known.—Auctioneer, No. 7, IJuk. street, Grosvenor-square. In the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburelo on Monday I:tst, Thomas Gray, private soldier in 111.! Kirkcudbright Militia, was convicted of having in possession, knowing them to be forged, two; forged notes of the Bank of England, and two of the B an k of Scotland. Sentence-11 years transportations. Tuesday, Felix O'Hara and Feli.v were coo victed of assaulting and obstructing some Excise Of ficers in Stirlingshire, when seizing illegal stills. A similar sentence was pronounced. Oa the same day Thomas hite, Midshipman of tfo UNtconx frigate, was tried for the murder of Wm. Jones, a seaman of that ship, by ,tabbing him with a dirk on the Pier of Leith. He was found guilty of culpable homicide, and sentenced to fourteen years transportation. SMITHFIELD MARKET, JULY 18. Beef 51 Od to 6s Od Veal 7. 04 to 39 04 Mutton 5, ed to 61 4d Perk 6s Od to 7s 6d Llmh Ts Od to as od. Beasts, 1 3Eo—Sheep and lambs 1 6,3o—Calves, '_Gois--pig, 2 g o. Meadow HA) 41 Os to .51 les I Clover GI el to 71 7s Rowen 01 Os to 01 Os I Straw Ii :49 to al 5s CORN MARKET, MAR K-1 AN F , lIII.V to Al:hough we had a good supply of Wheat this m rang, that of fine quality told very freely, and is full per quer et higher than on last Monday.—llarley being scarce and in denim's' is IPo per quarter dearer.—liaving a Lug( arrival of Oats Irons abroad, exclusive of a guod supply trim our own coast, caused heavy sale fur that article, and last prices were with cliShculty obtained...4n olher aryclet ry alterativ.