The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Paris Papers of Wednesday have just come to hand.
The French Funds have not experienced that iniprove-
melit which was anticipated. fro n the intelligeuce that
France was to be relieved horn foreign occupation. Oa
Monday they rose not quite one half per cent. ; :Lnd on
Tuesday they aeelin;xl nearly as much as they had
risen the preceding day, the Five per Cents. tieing only
7tif.

Private letters from the Continent state, that seve-
ral commercial houses at Paris have been informed by
their correspondents, " that the United States of Ame-
rica have offered a sum of :30.000.000f, to the King of
the Two Sicilies for the cession of the port of Syracuse
This proposition was rejected. It is well known that
Americans use every effort to procure an establishment
in the Mediterranean, and that they have successively
directed their attention on Porto Fcrrajo and on Mahon.
In the fear of injuring the commerce of Leghorn, the
Grand Duke of Tuscany has refused them the Isle of
Elba for which they offered fourteen millions."
The American papers ring the changes on the old
subjects of the Indians, the Floridas, &c : ' to this has
been lately added a third—namely the capture of Ame-
rican fishing vessels, for intruding upon the fishing
grounds of the English colonies.
Montreal papers have arrived to the 12th of Sep.
tember. The new Governor of Upper Canada, Sir
Peregrine Maitland, has already began the gratifying
work of redress.

A letter, purporting to be written by the French
General ourfaud to the Ex-Empress Maria Louisa,
has appeared in most of the daily papers. No one
vouches for its authenticity; but, considering the efforts
so visibly made for the liberation of Buonaparte, or far
a relaxation of vigilance, which would have the same
effect, we see no reason for qts2stioning the authenticity
of the letter ; though, perhitps. the writer might he
more anxious about its publication in England, than
its delivery at Parma. The internal evidence is also
very strong in its favour. None but a real adherent
of Buonaparte, and an imitator of his effrortery, could
speak of a man as "dying in the most dreadful torments
and in the most prolonged agony," because he is re-
stricted to a space of several leagues, in an island which
has long been voluntarily inhabited, and because he
refuses to take exercise there in the presence of a British
Officer. He is well known to be attended by a very
expensive suite; yet the first paragraph of this letter
represents him to he " without friend', without rela-
tions, without intelligence of his wife, or of his son,
without consolatlon." May we net add—without a
France to tyrannize over, without a Europe to ravage,
without a D'Engliien or a Palm to execute publicly,
or a Wright or a Toe:;.,aint to murder in a dungeon, or
a body of Magistrates to :.bout (as at Milan) for defend-
ing their city ; or any consolatory hope of a return to
the other practices in which nearly 20 years of his life
were passed, except front the liberality of an English
public
THE FUNDS.—The final settlement of the Army of
Occupation quitting the French territories was expect-
ed to have had a considerable effect upon the British
Funds, and accordingly speculations to an immense
amount were made by monied men ; tut when the ac-
count was communicated, stock varied very little. The
depression which took place on Thursday, is attributed
to a different cause ; on that day there was an unex-
pected issue of New Exchequer Bills to the amount of
100,0001. The surprise and astonishment which this
influx of paper in the market created is scarcely credi-
ble, as it was generally understood that no fresh issue
of Exchequer Bills would take place this year. Con-
sols were then at 761, but immediately fell to 754. At
the time of the issue, the old bills were from 225. to
255. premium ; but the new ones being issued at 20s.
caused a reduction of old and new to t 9s. premium,
and on Saturday they were as low as 175.; the issue
taking place on the eve of paying the dividends, gave
rise to a report that it was in consequence of the scar-
city of cash in the Treasury. There is at present a very
great scarcity of cash, and good bills, which were a
short time since eagerly sought after to be discounted
at 4 per cent. find a difficulty in being done at 5 per
cent which is attributed to a determination on the part
of the Beak of England to limit the quantity of dis-
count. The London Bankers are said to have issued
circulars to their country connexions, informing them
that in future their discounts must also be limited :
and thus a check is put to the immense quantity of pa.
per which has been in circulation.
The tumults of the manufacturing districts seem
almost to be dying of old age ; at least they are now
but little attended to The partisans of confusion
seem to be aware of this; and are said to send repre-
sentations to London in letters dated from Manchester
and Stockport, descriptive of tumults present and fu-
ture, which have no existence, and are likely to have
none.

The rise which has taken place in the standard of
copper ore is considerable The advance, on Thursday
week, at Poole, was 91. a ton ; making an increase
of '2 11. within the last five weeks ; or from 1 261. to
1471. a ton.