The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-26 00:00:00

758 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. several coupons of 1000, 2000, 5000, 10,000, and 20,000 francs, making together the SUDS due each day. 4. Of these bonds, no more than fifty millions shall be in circulation at one time, in order to prevent the evils of a gi eater accumulation. • 5. Fiance has no interest to pay for the delay of five years granted for the payment. 6. Fur the security of the regularity of these payments, Trance gives the Allies an annuity (Reute) of seven millions on a capital of 140 millions in the grand Livre. This annu ity is in case of need, to cover what is not redeemed by the French Government, in order, at the end of each half-year, in the manner below mentioned, to bring the payments in equilibrium with the expiration of the bonds. The Rentes are inscribed in the names of the persons to be pointed out by the Allies, to whom, however, the inscriptions cannot be delivered, except in the case below mentioned. — The Allies also reserve to have the inscriptions transferred to other names as often as they please. 8. The inscriptions will be deposited with one Cashier ap pointed by the Allies, and one appointed by France. 9. A mixed Committee, equal in number, (this seems to mean that half the members are to be named by the Allies, and half by France) examines every six months the state of the payments, and strikes a balance. The redeemed bonds announce the payments; the bonds not then presented to the French Treasury belong to the following balant e Those, lastly, which have expired, and ]cave been presented, but not paid, indicate the arrear, and the sum of inscriptions necessary according to the current course of exchange, to cover the deficiency. As soon as this operation is finished, the unpaid bonds will be returned to the French Commissioner, and the mixed Committee then order the cashiers to deliver out the sum fixed. The latter are then authorised and bound to deliver it to the Commis sioners of the Allied Powers, who then dispose of it at their discretion. 10. France engages in such case immediately to deliver to the cashiers an acconnt in inscriptions equal to the sum to be delivered by them, so that the annuity in article 8 may be always complete. I I. For these bonds the payment of which is not made when due, by the faults of France, it pays five per cent. interest per annum, reckoning from the day of their becom ing due. 12. When the first 600 millions are paid, the Allies, in order to hasten the close of the account, will, if agreeable to France, take the annuity (Rente) fixed in Act 8, at the course of exchange then current, to the amount of the arrear of the 700 millions, so that France will only have to pay what dif ference there may be. 15 If this is not agreeable to France, the payment of the other 100 millions will be made in the manner stipulated in Articles 2,3, 4, and 5. After the discharge of the whole 700 million, France receives the inscriptions back again. 16. The French Government engages, beside the pecuni ary indemnities fixed in the present Convention, to • fulfil all the engagements entered into by separate Conventions with the several Powers and their Allies, relative to the clothing and equipment 01 their armies, and punctually to have de livered and paid the bonds and mandats proceeding therefrom, so far as they shall not have been realised at the time of sign ing the main Treaty, and the present Convention. NOV. ori. PROMINENT FEAVIRES OF THE WAR IN THE EAST INDIES. Futtighur, 12th June, 1815. 1. The Sieks possess a large tract of country ; their tribes are headed by Runjeet Sing, a warlike and ambitious leader. Their usual military establishment may be estimated at 28,000 men. The Sieks under our protection can bring into the field about 17,000 soldiers. At the breaking out of the Napaul war, this state was fortunately engaged in a war with Kashmere, and threatened by the King of Cot hul. 2dly, Sindiah has about 40,000 soldiers; he is said to be in close alliance with the Rajah of Berar and with the Bhurtpon Rajah. He has acquired much strength since the Marhatta war, by bringing the feudatory States under his immediate controul. 311ly, Ameer Khan may have 28,000 soldiers; Muhomed Shah and Lall Sing, who generally act with him, can bring 20,000 more into the field. A Khan is generally in want of money, and when his troops become mutinous for being kept in arrears, he gives them perhaps half their pay, with authority to plunder to the amount of what is still due to them. 4thly, Hulka is poor, and has only 17,000 men. Ame r Khan, Mahunted Shah, and Lull Sing are nominally his Generals. slhly, The Pindares are a tribe of military adventurers, who having followed the standards of different Chiefs, and from the present tranquil state of Ilindoostan, being out of employ, have joined with other brigands and have cemented themselves into one great body of 40000 soldiers. These hardy troops infest the neighbouring provinces for plunder, and will fight under any Chief who will hest pay them. They may be compared to the companies which infested the provinces of France in the time of our Edward 111. and who first drove Peter the Cruel of Spain from his throne, and then, under the Black Prince, replaced that monster. I have now given you an account of most of the principal States which I consider decidedly hustle to us; to those countries which subsidize from us t have not referred, be cause power is to a great degree taken out of their hands. You are aware that the immediate causes of the Nepali' war were the depredations, encroachments, and murders, which the Goorkahs committed on the British frontier, and which their Government refused to make any atonement for whatever. The reasons for bringing matters to an imme diate issue were these—that the Goorkahs were becoming every day more powerful : that opinion, the great and good support of our power in India, would have been much weakened by the cowardly sufferance of such lawless cruelties and snob shameless aggressions. The general state of India too, presented a fortunate moment. The Sieks were engaged in a difficult war, and the other hostile powers though formid able, had not had time to coalesce against us; nor had they, nor could they derive aid or assistance from any European power. These circumstances are the more worthy of consi deration, because the Nepaul nation possess all that bravery which characterises mountaineers; they have been enured to war, and they inhabit a country, which to subdue, even when divided into petty states, had baffled all the efforts of the most formidable of the Mogul conquerors ; so that by a superstitious people, this country was foolishly thought to be protected by magic. No sooner was the war decided upon, than stores were provided, by which timely arrangement, and by giving the soldiers money in lieu of half their rations, the expences of the war have not exceeded one half of the original estimate, . . . 1 P tl al fc S pl tF to pi to tr wl tl lel n 4 Cr tr Iu th st: fe uu al tit th sq pa