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

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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,