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:o'er) up the price or the ClJeernmeilt froth fur some
loisgmary object of the Treasury, nod which vrould
have no existent, even m mime, were it not for the
fallrity with which the CHANCELLOR of the F.x-
fistegta can have recourse to the money-market to
supply the fanciful wants of the Government.
The Freud, Ministry have, in consequence of the
political calamities of their nation, bran compelled
[Dell on the people for vast and extraordinary sa-
..rificrs, nod the national debt has within a few
)ears been rapidly increased. The period of
tlwir calamities Iris centred, and the Ministers have
pleolgril themselves to the people, in presence
.of thu ir representatives, that the public debt
has it ached its utmost limit. From this mo-
ment, therefore, it must rapidly diminish, be-
came the stile of the finances affords full scope
to the operation of the Sinking Fund. In the mean
time Cleat Britain, in the pride of her national
triumph, has been compelled every year since the
termination of hostilities to borrow large sums of
[coney, and at the present moment the mere inte-
nd and charge of the debt far exceed the whole
revenue of the Frencovernment We are aware
that some people are si G
lly enough. to find cause of
triumph in this latter statement, from a false pre-
sumption that the amount of revenue testifies the
sralth sod resources of a country. Undoubtedly
I are hot a rich and powerful nation could afford to
make such eilormous sacrifices; but are there no
signs of riches distinct from lavish expenditure or
rather dots not i bevy day's rad experience prove to
us that this mark 4.f national wealth is not incompa-
tible with the min of manufactures, the decay of
mole, so sppalliiig increase of paupers, sod the letter
destruction of 11.0-e domestic comforts that once dis-
tinguished the humble cottages of our agricultural
sod manufacturing labourers To this system of
horroaing we see tio hope of chiiige, because we can
&,cern no prospect or a dim ttttt lion in utir expendif
rap. Even though one or two millions might at the
!list Of the year be found di.posable towards a di-
srtilution of the public debt. what hopes van so
,110.111 A rune afford or effectual relief to the

Avontry ?
Nor can it be overlooked, that while in this
A °fumy dcticienties are frequently found to arise in
Ir rrvelior, the produce of the taxes in France
cvrr disappoint the hopes of the Minister. With
t cut umstance is associated the distressing assur..
, that in Great Britain the taxer are strained to
am utmost, while in France the Minister acts upon
the wi,:e principle avowed in his expose, by Baron
I,ou ti, That the moderation of taxes is in certain
g•VWS more productive than the increase of tligm."
Vt ireornmenil this observation to the particular
nhtrnti,hn of our CHANcELLoa of the EXCHEQUER
~sol the Members of the house of Commons.
Comparisons between the financial condition of
dill. rent commies are generally made with a direct
or implied reference to their means of carrying on
hostilities. Should war unhappily break out in
Europe at the present moment, there can he no
question that the finances of France are better en-
abled to endure the shoat than those of Great
Britain. Four years of peace have been suffered to
pass by without adding to our resources or dimi-
oiplinie our burdens. We have during that period
lived by expedients, the public service has been
tovitled for by piece-meal, and the attention has
liven systematically diverted from a general view of
the actual state of the country. Let us look in
tlx mean time to the conduct of the Wasters and
1:,-,eesentatives of Frauce, and in the magna-
vino and firmness with which we find them look-
.it the difficulties they have had to encounter, we
way hod annictliog
The debate on tl
spitting the Law of
Cloasber of Depot
hers spoke for it, and
of M. Saw, At.
_stated, which, if
beyond all doubt the trot
',peeling the persecutions of the Protestants u the
akypattnient of the Gard, immediately after the re.
torn of the Bunapows. No censure, however,
can by any possibility be attached to the KING,
hut we fear some of his faintly cannot be thought
rqoa:;y exetnpt.
The five per Cents. on Saturday were 66 fr. 45 C.
—l/ink Actions, 1,492; fr.

A Dutch Mail has arrived, with Papers from
B. ussels to the VOth instant. The agitation pro-
duced in France by the proposed change in the
I.;i of Prctions, appears to be felt at Brussels,
barivi, stud other part% of the Ointment.

At t;,e Annual Meeting of the Africsn
tes•rrday, a report of which is given in .another
I,H,t of our Paper, Mr. STEPHEN took an (woe-
of bestowing a just and eloquent eulogy
tarots the late lamented Sir SAMUEL ROMILLM.

Yesterday morning the Duke of Your trunr.
acted military billmess with the PILINGS RIDENT,
et Cachou Hussar.
Our letter rfol.ll Dover, dater! March 23 (Tites-
dA), mys—oe The Prima Ambassador and suite
I.thrhd twee Alia *Arrow's from Calais, uod were
wanted the bring the caution at the Castle
and Westero thights."
.1 j'apeis to the 6th ult. have arrived.
At that 014 i- the aloud was healthy. The lawn--
wilt plivetrer, continued to taro the West
than ,ca,, and to ottuu) the pumas of csnumercr.

to admire a net to imitate.
ihr liseeisties of Abe Peers re.
ermillhmerteed in the
stirs ophialq. Tam Now
ml two epilog* its the epee&
:LAtitE, in Useelies feet wee
' not contradicted. Weald put
the truth or the statements re-