The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-30 00:00:00

IffiE NATION .. A] - Our Wing, Constitution, atiD tabs. PUBLISLIED AT NO. il l NEWCASTLE-STREET ) STRAND. SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, NIL livo 316. IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED LATE LAS ,' NIGHT. GENERAL BANKRUPTCY IN FRANCE. The plunder of the world is exhausted. France, which the devastation of other lands had so unjustly enriched, Las now disgorged her blood-stained wealth. Her riches have followed her glory. They have both been sacrificed to tho insatiable ambition of her Ruler. Spoiled by lie tory and sporting with his fortunes, he went to seek defeat': and ruin amidst the wilds of Russia, and planted them in the bosom of his empire. The loss of armies caused him no alarm, as long as the population of half a world stood ready- to supply DCW victims. But now that every na- tion is his foe ; now that his territory is Invaded, and whole provinces are thus rendered unproductive of men and taxes : now that, crut of 70 millions, whom he lately governed by his influence ; he can scarcely call 24 his subjects, and these mostly - old men, women, and children, unable to bear the fatigues of war : an evil of equal mag nituae, has overtaken him, the total want of money to pay and support the levies which his last efforts have been able to collect. Should he therefore have even suc- ceeded, by forcing all ages and professions to the field, in assembling a force equal to that by which he is threatened, :PRICE 9d. able situation of the French Capital and Government to require an apology for its insertion in this place. Gray( Vines, ‘lsth Jan. IEII.. It is all up—commercial houses are fatting with the tre mendous crash of a political earthquake. Scarcely can we reckon six that are standing, viz. BAG . UENAULT and Co. MALLET (brothers), PERREGAUX ) LAFITTE, 1111 d Co. ROLT.• GEMONT DE Lowtmunan, DELESSERT and Co. and anether • beginning with a D. some say the house of Do uunuan. All the others are either deficient or in agonies. You and I, my dear friend, are amongst the latter, and I greatly fear must soon be buried with the former. All trade is at a stand. This is the unfortuuate result of the licence sN s tem, and all houses which have meddled with it, are now the lictifns of it. Sugars and coffee do not fetch the.dn- tics, and indigo has been offered on 'Change at any price— but no purchasers. Gold bears a premium of 7 per cent. in exchange for silver. The Bank has stopped its payment!, or, what is little better, pays hardly 500,0(X) francs a-day. The Directors have published a fine Report concerning its situation ; they say they have only 38 millions of francs out in Bank notes, and that the amount of accounts current is only 6 millions. That the amount of their ready money is 14 millions, and that of Bills in the Portfolio 31 millions. As to the ready money, G millions must go immediately to discharge the cheques of Merchants and BaaLers who h-ave REGISTER. unless he should discover mines of silver and gold in the accounts current with the Bank there will then remain on- womb of Moiitmatre, he evidently cannot keep such a multitude long together. The urgency of his necessi ly 8 millions to answer' demands which can be mad o out of the 38 millions of Bank notes in circulation. To Ir sure. ties has already compelled him to lay his hands on the Bank, which he had so often represented as sacred, and in consequence of the secret advances which that establish ment was forced to make to him during the last campaign, and to enable him to prepare for the opening of the present, a measure has been adopted by its Governors and share holders, which may be considered as a composition wit!' their creditors, if not as a direct bankruptcy. Its payments have been limited to a sum of about 20,0001. sterling in specie a day, and no one can have a bill exchanged without procuring an order from the Mayor of his arron dissement. Such orders will only be, given to the agents of the Emperor, who thus will become possessed of all that remains in the Bank, without incurring the odium of a public seizure. This supply, however, cannot be of long duration, and the first effect of this arrangement Las been to cause the almost general failure of every banking and . commercial house in Paris. The following letter communicated to us last night from a quarter which enables us to place the utmost reliance on the important they have taken a good way to prevent a quick cal!, aq few people are fond of going to the mayor of their qua;lt T for a number, for fear of shewiug that they have money. As to the Portfolio of the Bank, people think of it as they do of the Portfolio of the minister for foreign affairs, which contained documents relating to the nego ciat ions for peace—they have not seen the contents ! Ik sides, we are inclined to think that the 31 millions question, as well as the 111,500,000 of prim:tive capital and reserved profits, are almost entirely composed or CC orders from Government on the Receivers-general of Districts, (delegations sur lea receveurs generaux des de partemeuts) upon which the Bank has been compelled to advance money by - anticipation on the revenue of the state. You know, my friend, as well as myself, th:it R.o vernment may (and it would not be the first time they - ; have done it) order the Receivers-general to send the amount of their receipts into the treasury, and di.o:ononr the orders upon them ;—further, some of the departments are already in the power of the enemy.—Jud:Te et our situation. It is also rumoured, that a Mr. 62. Bcn, • We do not know whether this nary not apply t' the Duke of Bt; A and exclusive information which it contains, will thrtAV 'lll---yho is nephew to LOUIS XVIII. The island of kitdic is 'lose 4 .. 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