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London, England, 1822-06-25 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

VITHAVTS FROM THE, DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

June 25, 1822.

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We have received the Conservateur impartial
of the 4th instant, containing a Report on the
-nuances of the Russian Empire, delivered by
M. Gouriff, Minister for that department, to the
Council of" Superintendence over the Affairs of
Public Credit," on the 30th ult. Want of room
restricts us to a brief extract or two from the
contynts of this official paper. The debts of
Russia, which the operation of the Sinking Fund
embraces, are divisible into three heads :-
1. Those contracted before the institution of the
S'inking. Fund. 2. Those which are the result of
loans contracted for the purpose of reducing the
amount of paper money. 3. Those which were
incurred with a view to provide for the neces-
sities of sundry branches of the Administration.
The total- debt, under the first of these divisions,
not including that on account of Holland,
amounted, before the year 1817, to 11,646,418
roub. metalliq., 204,068,739 assig. The Dutch
debt was 50,600,000- florins ; and on the Ist of
January, 1822,- the reductions which had taken
place in this mass of debt, by means of the Sink-
ing Fund, amounted to about 62,000,000 roubles,
assig.; and in ten years a certain portion of the
above debt, viz. that which is made payable at
stated periods, will have been entirely paid off—
an event which must add to the sinking fund

12,000,000 of roubles, while that part of the
fund which is made applicable to the redemption
of the perpetual rentes will, with the aid of the
sums annually brought in, have redeemed the
whole of thaw rentes in 20 years; the sinking
fund is 2' per cent. on the capital of the debt.—
The second general class of debts, viz. those
growing out of loans for the reduction of the paper
money, were contracted in 1817 and 1818, in
assignats, at 6 per cent. and in 1820, in specie
roubles, at 5 per cent. per annum. The sum
total of these debts, on the Ist of January,
1822, =minted to 334,8-10 roubles metallic, and
109,720,471 assigs. Of this, the portion which
is redeemable will be paid off likewise in twenty
years, leaving only between 11 and 12 millions
of perpetual debt, which belongs to some of the
public establishments. The specie loan, nego-
ciated by Messrs. Baring and Hope, amounted
to 40 millions ; but of this, only between 26 and
27 millions were carried to account of the 30
millions assigned to the diminution of the paper
money. Of the above loan there has been al-
ready redeemed 701,700 roubles ; and the
Government has, or is in the act of destroying
assignats, with the proceeds of it, to the amount
of nearly 47 millions of roubles, which will make
altogether, of paper extinguished, upwards of
256 millions of roubles.--The 3d class of debts,
those contracted to provide for certain branches
of the Administration, have amounted, during the
four years specified, to 1,305,000 metallic roubles,
and nearly 18;000,000 in assignats ; but the Go-
vernment was under the necessity of diverting
13 out of the- 40 Millions of the Hope and Baring
loan, from -its natural destination of redeeming
paper, to supply some pressing wants of the ser-
vice, which increases the specie debt of the pub-
lic Administration by the like sum.—The result
is, that the whole debt of Russia, in all its
brancli..s, amounted on the Ist of January, 1822,
to—Holland, 48,600,000 florins ; Home debt,
above 53 millions specie roubles ; Assignats,
_above 296 millions assignats. The annual sink-
ing fund for the redemption of which amounts to
above 1,000,000 roubles specie, and above
5,000,000 assignats ; or bears a proportion to
the debt of something more than 1 to 50. The
English sinking fund, taken at 3 millions (and it
has not yet been so much since the peaced is to
the debt as 1 to 270.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Saturday's Paris Papers came last night by
express. An article, dated Petersburgh, states,
that the Russian Imperial Guard has received
orders to return to the capital—a circumstance
almost' decisive of peace. ft is, however, still
asserted, that the Asiatic Turks only had eva-
cuated the Principalities, and that the new plan
of administration by a Turkish Governor, assist-
ed and controlled by a Council of natives of the
two Provinces, met with some obstacles, but
there is still nothing to lessen the confident pro-
bability of peace. It appears that iu Russia the
Ladies share independently the honours of chi-
valry with the Empress-Mother, Grand Mistress
of the Order of St. Catherine, who has conferred
by an autograph letter, upon Madame de Tatis-
cheff, the wife of the Privy Councillor of that
name the small Cross of the Ladies of the
Order of St. Catherine the Martyr, in considera-
tion of the services of her husband. There are
no accounts of a more recent date than our last
from Spain. But the Moniteur, in a demi-official ar-
ticle, reprimands the blood-thirstiness and bigotry
of the Ultra Journals, which, by perfidious false-
hoods, have laboured to provoke a war between
the two nations. 44 France," says the Monileur,
" has no ill will to the independence of other
nations, and no fears for its own." This seems
quite decisive of the intentions of the French
Government, whatever may be the particular dis-
positions of some Members of the Ministry, and
confirms the declaration of the King at the open-
ing of the Session, that the sole object of the Cor-
don Sanitaire was the prevention of any danger
to the public health during the heat of the sum-
mer months.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Bill entitled the Spoiled Stamp Amend-
ment Bill, now reproduced in the House of Com-
mons, requires to be watched with more than or-
dinary vigilance. A letter to the Editor exposes
its pressure upon the industrious members of the
lower classes, of whom benefit societies are com-
posed, a system entitled to every possible en-
couragement and indulgence. This, however, is
only a minor objection. Its pressure upon the
landed interest, already labouring under such
distress, is such as must make every country
gentleman tremble for the consequences. It is
well known, that-tenantcy at will is the common