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(TROIA Tat
State Of the Timms of England and of the Bank of Loader:
on the 2.4 th of Tune, iBe2, at the epoch of the Qent:r.ti
Peace, and of the Union of Ireland with Great Britain, by
hi. Ds Cuss, Author of the Essay on Commercial Cr,:klit..

ALL the Works which have spoken of. the FL
nances of Great Britain, and of the present, State
of the Bank of London, have given us nothing
but erroneous or incomplete ideas; the details which
I am about to present upon these interesting objects
have the merit of exatiness.

• If England is placed in the balance of Europe
much above the rank which the extent of her Ter-
ritory and her Population assign her, it only owes
this advantage to the art of borrowing enormous
• Loans, without in the least affetaing the Credit of
the State ; of augmenting in a, prodigious degree
the Public Revenue, without fatiguing the patience
of the People, without diminishing even the po.
pularity of the • Ministers ; and of multiplying at
pleasure the means of circulation, without compro.
mising Commercial Credit.
This art, which gives her those advantages which
she has so often abused, this art which she alone
possesses to-day, may belong to-morrow to every
Government which chuses to study and imitate it.
Nothing but ignorance can deny stile existence of
this great means of force and of power ; only similar
ignorance can imagine there is any mysterious art
which the English know and will not communicate.
All their operations of Finance are public, all the
principles, all the calculations on which they are
founded, all the tarifa of Revenue, all the means of
receiving ir, are perfeaty known ; ati those Princi.
pies, all those Calculations, all those Laws are sim.
ple, only a small portion of talents and of judgment
are necessary to conceive and to apply them.' Eat-ls,
Experience, and Reason, are the bases on which the
English found their Plans of Loans and Impositions.
'They have the Wisdom to repel to a distance those
vain abstractions Which our Economists substitute
for Science; and in order to gain infomation in an
art which they praflise under our eyes, it is only
necessary to observe them with some attention.
The means of reducing England to the. rank
which she ought to occupy, is to rival her in the
only species of force in which she possesses some
superiority, and I repeat it, when other Govern.
means wish to rival her in this advantage which she
usurps, they may divide it with her.
The objeft of this article is to aura& attention
to this important science, of which I intend to dei
velope the principles of the theory, and the rules
of the application, in more extensive works I
may, perhaps, inspire some desire of studying it,
in making known the drab which it produces.
To present to France the means of procuring
those powerful arms which her Enemies have, em.
ployed against her, is my only desire ; and in what.
ever circumstances I may be placed, I shall con-
sider my lot as fortunate, if I have paid my debt to
my Country, in contributing to her happiness..
(Then follows Statements of the National Debt of Eng.
land. the Sinking Funa, the Expenditure during the War,
dm]

When we read these Details, what opinion must
we form of Mr. Parr? He preserved England
from the Revolution with which it. was threaten.
ed ; he suppressed the Revolt in Ireland.; .he pro.
cured to the English Government, in the . course
of ten years, either by Imposts or by Loans,
at a moderate interest, eight milliards of ex-
traordinary resources, without fatiguing the pa.
tience of the people, without weikening Public
Credit, without paying an excessive rate of interest.
But he expanded these eight milliards without pre.
curing any real advantage to his conntry,—without
having been able, notwithstanding his great means,
to influence the Cabinet of Berlin, or even to pre.
serve his power over the councils of the Allies of
England. In scatttering force and money through.
out the universe he was unable to gain, on any point,
that superiority which could insure success. Must
we place him in the rank of great statesmen, who
possessed the art of assembling powerful means, but
who knew not how to employ them ?

['rhea follow statements of the last Loan, the ordinary
expenditure of Great Britain in, time of Peace, and the Public
Revenue.)

This comparison proves, that, supposing the expen.
diture reduced to a Peace Establishment, it would
still exceed the Revenue, and that there would be a
deficit of 2,84+,6081. but the expenditure being
still above that of a Peace Establishment, the attual
deficit is Eleven Millon: sterlidg.
The establishment of necessary imposts to cover
the difference between the Revenue and. the ordinary
Expenditure, will not experience any resistance ;
and the English Government will raise, without
difficulty, 37,500,0001. on 12,000,000 of persons,
and on 34,000,000 of productive acres, whilst in
France a poor revenue of 20,000,0001. raised ,on
30,000,000 of inhabitants, and r 00,000,000 Of
acres, excites reclamations, of which the Govern.
ment acknowledges the Justice.
The Anglomanists will explain this enigma by
the superiority of Wealth which they suppose to
exist in England. But to justify this strange opi.
Dion, it must be proved that t 00,000,000 of cul.
tivable Acres, fertile in 'Wheat, Oil, Wine, &c.
do not produce such rich Harvests as 34,000,000 of
Acres less produaive, placed under a climate which
prevents the culture of all valuable Produce,
It must be demonstrated, that the labour of
mOOO,OOO of Englishmen gives more real value
than that of 34,000,000 of 1 renchmen, equal in in-
dustry, and superior in aaivity.
.•

[Then follows a further comparison between the Financial
State of Great Britain and France, in which the superior
Revenue of the former is attributed to Taxes upon Con-
sumption, instead of direct Impositions, as established In
France.)

The Anglomanists have boasted a long timeond
have wished to give us the political constitution of
Great Britain, at which they are ignorant. I have
dedicated some time to the study of these laws, and
I am convinced that in the encouragement to cont.
merce, the establishment of Banks, and the science
These works are, r. Rcrlcaions on the Art of imposing
Public Contributions, 4,ncl on the Means of insuring to-the
Government of f ranee, a Revenue proportioned to the ex.
pcnces of so vastan Empire. 24. Trailskition of the History
of the public Credit of England, by Sir !Dim Sinclair, and a
EPntinkt4tion 01; that Vistory to the Peace.

or Cfeall anti IMpOSItIOn, tnat
In the finances in short
alone, are the English worthy of imitation,
["rheit ralloW Som.: statements of the format and present
aitaativivol the Bank .01 England, called in this article the
of London.]
The 'author guarantees the correetness of the de-
tails which this article contains, the English Pills,
81,11 .Works from whence they are drawn, are be-
fore him, .and he will communicate them -to the
members of the different commissions of fiaance who
wish to verify any of the fats.

FEBRUARY 23.
ACTS OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Tu t Government of the Republic decrees, that
an Exposition of the state of the Republic shall be
communicated to the Legislative Bodies by three
Orators of the Government, and inserted in the
Bulletin of the Laws.

(Signed) BowAr ARTE, First Consul,
H. IL MARBT, Sec. of State.

EXPOSITION OF THE STATE OF THE REPUB-
LIC.

Paris, Feb. 2t.

EVSNT3 have by no means deceived the views or
the expeetations of Government. The Legislative
Bodies,- on resuming their labours, find the Repub.
lic increased in its strength by a firmer union among
its Citizens—more aetive in its industry, and more
confident of its prosperity. •
The execution of* the Concordat, of which the
enemies of Public Order predined unfavourably, has
in almost every instance, been procludive of the
happiest effeCts. The principles of an enlightened
Religion, the authority of the Sovereign Pontiff,
and the constancy of Government; have trhiespbed
aver all obstacles ; and mutual sacrifices and conces.
sions have united the Ministers of Public Worship.
The Galilean Church, regenerated by its union-and
liberality, has already produced a felicitous change
in Public Morals—it conciliates equally the opinion
and the heatt—infancy becomes more docile—youth
more submissive to Magisterial Authority ; and its
salutary influence in carrying the Conscriptions into
effea, are in many places apparent.
In the Departments visited by the Flits'eCortst.tt.,
he every where observed the triumph of those PlM-
ciples which tend to establish the strength and the
happiness of Society.
In the Departmeuts of Elm., of the Lower Seine
and Oise, the people ate proud of the National
charader and glory—they feel the full extent of all
the advantages- conferred by equality : they are
grateful for the Peace, they bless the establishment
of Public- Worship. •By these various ties, their
hearts are. attached to the Constitution.. and the
State.. It is the duty of Government to chetish and
promote those fortunate dispositions.
A system of -,Public Instruelion is essential to a
well.regulated Society, and it is every where
loudly called for. . Many 'Lyceums are already
opened, and a multitude of private:and secondary
.Schools ire established. . The Citizens are .con.
vinced that :happiness and ignorance are incornia,
tible, and that..knowledge and the, cultivation of
talent ate essential •to the peeservation of. true
equality.
A Military SehoOl is established for the young
Defenders of their Country*: Soldiers therein, will
be accustomed to the life of cartips; and the fatigues
of War. By habits of obedience, they will become
capable of Command, and to the farce of Arms will
add the lights of Military Science.
In the Lyceums, as well as in the Military
Schools, the youth of the Incorporated Depart.
ments will live blended with those of Ancient
France. From these arrangements will spring, tha
true, that cordial fraternity, which will unite .the
whole into one People, 'destined by. their situation,
not more than by their courage and virtues, to form
the bond of union with respect to all Europe, and
to afford it a general example.
The National Institute which has the chief super-
intendence, has received the necessary instruaions
for a due exercise of its funaions. _

In order to ensure the stability of the rising In-
stitutions, and to remove from the view of the
Citizens all shadow of that discord which still seems
to appear at the periodical returns of the eleetions
of chief Magistrates, the real friends of the Pe-
ople called for the appointment of their First Magi.
strate to the Consulate for life. The People, on
being consulted, reechoed the cal), and the Senate
has proclaimed the will of the People.
The Organization of the Senate was incomplete.
National Justice was inadequately dispensed in the
Tribunals—the existing Authorities were insuf.
ficient—and no system of, regular discipline per.
vaded them.

Finally., there existed in France no power.which
could ameliorate even Justice itself, namely, that of
dispensing mercy. How often, within the interval
of twelve years, has such a power been invoked ?
How often have the unfortunate been vi4lims of that
inflexibility which was the reproach of our laws ?
And how frequently have the really Criminal been
acquitted, on the consideration of the punishment
being too severe.
A Stnatus Conaultum has restored, to the People
the exercise, of those Rights which the Constituent
Assembly had recognized, but it .has restored them
accompanied with such precautions as will pre:elude,
error anti precipitation in their choice, and insure
the. ascendancy of an enlightened Prudence,
The duties and line of 'conduA of the. §enate are
marked out with resped to vacancies in..the Chief
Magistracies. Certain and stridforms equally-gita.
ranteethe freedom and the propriety of their choice,
the expedition of which neither
.affords AMbition
tune to conspire, nor Anarchy means to obviate:it.
The due and regular adMinistration of, jestiee, in
all the tribunals, is ensured. A system of stibordi.
nation is established. All are free in the exercise
of their*.fUilaiG'lls ; they are equally independant of
power, and dependant upon the i.alps.
The power of pardoning, as the interests of the
Republic, or as circumstances may require, is vest.
ed in the Fitst Magistrate ; but. under the control
of Jurtiee itself, as .the rum revere organs of the
Law must be consulted-. • -

-111 the merits of 'institutions- are to he judged
by their drab, never yet hal any institution,
judging from its G•icitous and important eonse.
(penes, more merit than that of the Organic Se..

natus Consul 'french PeopTe tins-r iec.l a
due confidence in their d!.%tinirs they.are
in the present moment, and entertain no fea:s
Teeing the future.
The Ide of Fla having been ceded tri France,
:t has presented to 'her; besides a dothe
duStrious people, two superb Ports; but, reflute as
it is from France, it ttiuld not be properly incorpor.
ated with, any of the Dapartments, nor placed under
the rules of a Common Administration.- Such ex.
ceptions, 'therefore, are formed for the ide of Elba)
as- the public interest and local circumstances re-

turn.

.1

quired.
The abdication of its Sovereign, the will of the
People, 'and, in short, the necessity' of the case,
,has put Piedmont in the power of France.- En_
vironed as it. was, with a population so coMpoied,
Pied one was unable to maintain, either its'ovrn in-
dependence, or the expeoces, of Monarchy. Re.
united to Franc, it will not only enjoy secutityi
hut good fortune. Its Citizens, industrious and
enlightened, will reap the rewards 'of their eiter_
tions and their talents, in the bosom of the Arts
and of Peace.

In the Interior of France, calmness and security
prevail. The vigilance of the nigiltrates, and t
Gendarmerie strongly constituted, and comrnande
by a Chief grown old in die career of honour, int.
press every where the greatest te;ror on the Bri.

gands.
The interests of Individuals are equally benefited
with that of the Public. The Citizens now venture
to prosecute those whom formerly they dreaded.
In the course' of an unfavourable year, and in the
midst_ of general Scarcity, the Poet' were not over,
looked by Government ; they 'have borne necessary
privations with firmness, and .received assistance
with gratitude.
Our Agriculture is brought to a degree of pee
feEtion, unknown in any Country in Europe. En..
lightened Agriculturists have been sent into ail the.
Departments. The breed an management of Horses .
have been improved : the Wools of the COnntry
have been amelibrated by the introduction ofFleign
Sheep. In every quarter the zeal and lexertiona of
the Public Fundionaries have improved the nactiral
produttions of our Country.
Our ManufaCtures. improve and multiply,. and
will. soon, doubtless; rival those of every tithe:
Country : our Capitalists have ahandohett 'all ha.
zardoui speculations, and embark in useful. pnrstitts.
More than 20,0c0 Freneh Artificdts,haase been, by
the exertions of Government, restored to .the ravnit.t.
lanurea of their native Country, • .•
Among outs fabrici there is one merre-pseuliss2 to
France, that which the genitis of Cot isiur osrisa.
ed." Thia had been busted under the 'ruins of kl!invp
but the Government is anxious' to restore its .I.jbess
already enjnys a degree of splendor' and opuletiet ;
and labricatoiS imprise a tribtite on the in,sury,
of Europe. Bne the pineiple of theli success rests in
the luxury ofFranec herself. From she versatility
of our tastes, and the fluthation 'Of our fashions,
more than.theluxuor of Foreign fsTatiC)ll9.,tWf sue.
cess proceeds : these are the
levers which give, life
:and motion to an immense popui.ition.whn, withoat
'these would he the vit•tims of misery aid corruption.
Forirteen Millions, the reduce of the.. Barrier
tax, and Ten:Milliong extraordina'ry,. has4-been, in
the course of the year to, expended in the
roads. The ;indent routes and comniunieatiuns have
been repaired. New roads have been opened.----
Le Mont ,Cenis, and le Mont Centrisre,
will soon afford us a triple access to Italy,
A grand 'road., will eonditet us from Massilass to
Genoa; another road is projrneil froth St. Esprit
to Gap ; another from ReasaSl tsi lbws by 'PSativi,
At this last mentioned place establishments are
forming which will be of the* greatest .service to
all the: Departments in that quarter, and which Will
be much prcimoted. by an intended canals
On the confines of the Rhine from Bingen to
Colientz, a necessary road has been matie.through
rocks heietOfore inaccessible. The neighbouring
Communes dedicate themselves to the public service
of this work ; and the inhabitants of the opposite
Bank who once laughed at the undertaking, are
nary confounded at the celerity of its exectrion.
Numbers are employed on the canal of St. Quin:ie.
The canal of L'Ourg, is just opened, and by means
of its waters, Paris will soon enjoy thissa ssiubsiss
ties and advantages which it promises, to.afford.
The canal for uniting the navigation of the Seine
and the Saone; the departments of nu Bombs and
the Rhiste, is finished as far as Dole, and already
has the public treasury been benefited by the aug.
mentation in the prices of thither in that quarter.
The canals disligner.ilfottir, and of the Rhone,
and the.draining of the msrslies in the.Lower,Cba-
rent', are.already commenced. The dykes ;n the
isle of Cad'sand, of Ostend, arid on the North;rrt
Coasts, are undergoing repairs. G svesnnient is im-
proving the navigation of the rivers. The pro-
prietors of the boats which frequent them, are at
length sensible of the interest they have in assist-
ing in this desirable work.
On the Ocean, works are raising to protect the
Isle of Aix, and to afford shelter to the VesSels of
the Republic. A new. bason .wits. sluices, is form-
ing at .1./avre,• which will soon be the finest port in
the Channel.

~A.t..iintteerp, works are commenced which will
restore that City to its antient e,intmercial*ce4riey,
and Government is, prnjf'ding canali TO tllite the
Navigation of the S'thelait, at'd thic elf the Muse
and the Rhine, which will l'iciiitate the. Aupplies of
timber, and the general consumption of our tyrnrno.
ditics.

The Islands of rifartinique,Tazgo, and. St.. Ltde,
have been restored to us with a3i the CieMtittS of
their prosperity. Gmeitiedsuir, re-conquereo, is re-
stored to peace, and nearly to cultivation. G.4;aliel
is rapidly advancing toward;.. prosperity.
St. Domingo was subdued, and the author of in
troubles. in the 'power of France. Every thing
promized a speedy return* of its prosperity, biut. a
cruel malady •Jias delivered it to new misfortunes.
At length the plague, which destroyed our Army,
has ceased its ravages. The Forces which remain
in that Calony, strexrhened by those sending .iut,
assure us that it will soon be restoted to Corntnzrce
and.P.eace. •

Oar Maritime Commerce is god ally flowing into
its, channels, and succeesfally forming new ones,
The Fisheries are in the highest 11,1 rec produdive,

and new ConorierciAl SpcculAtions ate entering, into
with cespea to our Westatn Colonies, the Isle of
Prance, And the Indies.
_ _

Marseilles assumes her wonted ascendancy in, the
Mediterranean. The chambers of Commerce have
been restored to those towns which formerly
.pos-
sessed them, and new ones established in places
where they are likely to be of service:
The Deputies chosen in these different Chambers
will discuss, under the superintendance of Govern.
ment, the various affairs appertaining to their
Offices.
All the Sources of our Financial Prosperity have:
become more produdive ; the dired Contributioos
artless rigorous. The arrears which were latily
so great, are now very materially reduced.
In the midst of so many signs of Prosperity, the
Excess of the dired Contributions are still corn-
plained of.
Government. has observed, in common with all
the enlightened Administrators, that the surcharge
was particularly in the inequality of the 'Assess.
ments. Measures were accordingly' decreed and
executed for ascertaining the adual . inequalities
which exist in the different Departments., At the
latest period in the course of the year t a we shall
be particularly apprised of the relations which the
contributions in one Department bear to those of
another, &c. These once ascertained, Government
will proceed to make the arrangements didated by
strict justice. Even now it has caused am import.
tant diminution in the Contributions.
Farther innovations are still proposed in our
financial system ; but all changes are bad, unless de-
monstrated by proper evidence that the result will
be beneficial. The Government, therefore, will
proceed with the greatest caution,. and call in every
praEticable assistance' to its discussions.
.• Notwithstanding an incalculable increase of re-
venue, extraordinary circumstances have created
deficiencies which it was impossible to-foresee. It
became necessary to re-conquer two of our colonies,
and to-re-establish in all of them the ascendancy
and power of the Mother Country. It was ne,
cessary, by expeditious and expensive means,
to provide for the subsistence of the Metropolis,
and that of many of the Departments ; however,
the success was coammensurate to the exertions of
Government, and. the result of the whole was such
as to guarantee, in future, the Capital from the
recurrence. of the like Scarcity, and from the ma-
chinations of Monopolists..
In the account ache Minister of Finances will be
found the total of the annual Contributions, and the
differFnt branches of. the Public Revenue ; what they
have produced ; what may be expeded,of atneliora.
tin ; the measures of Administration ; the progress
of Public Prosperity ; what have been in the, dif.
ferent Departments of the IVlinistry, the elements of
the Expenditure for the year rikma ; what sums are
still to be paid on that year, and the preceding
years ; what resources remain to cover them; what
is the alual state of the Public Debt ; what have
been its increase, and the opera t ion of its extinction.
In the • account of the Minister of Public Mel.
sures, will be seen the receipts and payments which
belong to the different branches of Revenue.
Time bnited accounts of these two Ministers, will
give a complete pi Lure of our financial situation.
The Government presents it with an equal confi-
dence to its friends and its detradors, to citizens
and to fbreigners.
After having authorized the estimated expenses
for the year a 804, and appropriated the revenues
necessary for these expenses, objeEts of the greatest
interest will occupy the session of the Legislative
Body. It must re-establish order in our system of
coinage ; it must give to the system of our customs
a new, and a free energy, in order to repress
contraband.

It must at length give
.to France that civil code
so long prOinised,. and so long expected.
On all these matters projetis of Laws
.have been
formed under the eyet of government, and ripened
in conferences, whither.Cornmittees of the Council
of State and of the Tribunate have brought nothing
hut the love ,of truth and sentiments. of public
inters. r. The same sentiments, the same.principlek
will direct thestieliberations of the, Legislators, and
guarantee to. the Republic the Wisdom.and itnpar.
ttality of those Laws Which may. be adopted.
—.On the Continent every thing presents to us the
pledge of repose and tranquillity.
The Italian Republic, since the deliberation of
Ljonr, has fortified itself by. the still more intimate
union of the People which compose:it.. 'The happy
agreement of the Authorities which governits inte.
rior administration, its military force, give it alrea,
dy the clutrafter and the attitude of a State formed
long since, . and if preserved by wisdom, will
guarantee to it a destiny still morerprosperous.
L;garia, placed undera mixed constitution, seek
at its head, and in the bosom of its Authorities,
those Citizens who are most distinguished for their
virtues,, their talents, and their fortune. •

New shocks have overthrown the Helvetic Re.
public. The Government owes its assistance to
neighbours, whose repose contributes to its own •;
and will do every thing to ensure the success of its
mediation, and the happiness of a People, yihos
position, habits, 'attd interests, render them the
necessary Ally of France.

Batavia is gradually- regaining possession' of the
Colonies which Peace. has preserve(' to her.
She will always recollect, that France can be to..
wards her either the most useful ,Friend, or the most
dangerous Enemy.
In Germany, the last stipulations of the Treaty
of Lunevab are near their completion.
Prussia, Bavaria, and all the Secular Princes, who
have possessions on the Left Bank of the Rhi►►e,
have obtained on the Right Bank adequate In►ie►n_
nities.

The House of Austria finds in the Bishoprics of
Eichatit, 'Frew, and /3rixeN, and in the
:reater part of that of Pamir, mote than it has lost
in Tuscany.
Thus, by the happy co-operation of France and
Russia, all these permanent inlerests are re-
conciled, and the Germanic Empire, an Empire so
necessary to the repose and to the efuilibrillis of.
Europe, has received an accession of real strength ;

it. is now sed of elements mare concordant,
and. wore approp,riate to existing circumstances, and,
to the idea of the present age.
4 .French AMbassador is now at Constantinoible,
chaiged to coiled and strengthen those ties which
should attach us io a PoWer which appears to totter
bur, ~which it is our interest to support, and to re;
establish on pure foundatious.
Alexandria and Malta are still occupied by British
Troops. 0f this, Gc,•vernment 'would be founded in
complaining ; but it /earns that the vessels intended,
to carry them to !Europe are now in the Mediterranean,
Government has secured the Peace the Conti.
nent,.; and it has reason to hope for the contin6ance
of ii by Sea. This Peace is equally necessary and
'wished for, by all people. For ats preservation GO-
vernmena will do every thing consistent with the
National Honour, which is isientially conntaed
the stria execution of Treaties.
_ _

But, in England, Power seems to be disputed h)l'
Two Parties. The one, which has concluded Peace#
seems determined to maintain it : the other, has sworn
an implacably hatred towards France. t Thisyludua,
lion of opinion, and of. Councils, displays an attitude
at once pacific and menacing. • •
During this struggle
cfParties prudential mea,
sures are adopted 'by the Government of the Republic,-
Five hundred thousand men arc in readiness to pro-
tea and to avenge it. Unaccountable necessity
(which passionS the most disgraceful) imposes upon
two nations, whose. interests and-inclinations corn.
bitted, equally attach to Peace !
However, it is to London the success of intrigue is
limited ; it is unable to in other Powers ; and
Government can. assert, with a just pride, that at
p,re,:rent England would have to contend singly against
France.
But we entertain 'better hopes, .and rather be-
lieve, that the E councils of Wisdom, and voice of
Humanity, will prevail in the British Cabinet.
Yes, certainly, paCification'will every day acquire
new strengtll-.-.-the relations of the two Govern...
ments will alone assume that charaeler of benevo.
fence whicch so well tallies with their mutual inter.
ests. A.felicitous Peace will obliterate the cala.
rmities of disastrous war ; and France and England,
by rendering their happiness reciprocal, will merit
and ensure the gratitude,of the whole world !
(Signed) BONAPARTIJ First. Consul'.
By Command of the First Consul, •
. 11..8. MAR ET, Secretary of State.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PARIS, TEN. IS.
", Last autumn the unfortunate KING of SAR-
DINIA received order, from General MURAT, to
leave Rome and to reside at. Viterbo, where his
aCtions and transaetions might more easily be ob-
served by the French Agents or Spies, who follow
him every where ; various reports circulated in
Italy in consequence ; it was, however, sonn re.
marked that the arrival of a British Fleet in the
Mediterranean, created much uneasiness to the
Italian Proconsuls of the Great Nation. .
" Two days ago a Courier arrived from Mi/a4,
and since it is whis_pered in'the Ministerial, circles,
that the KING of, SARDINIA has voluntarily ceded
to England the Island of Sardinia, on receiving for
himself and his posterity a Pension somewhat more
than the present Revenue of that Island.
" Should this really be the case, England has only
anticipated the intention of France, and Sardinia
as a Naval Station, when Malta is given, up, would
as such, certainly, be a very valuable acquisition.;
had France been As powerful by sea as by land,
there is no doubt that the Senatus Consultus that
incorporated Piedmont with the French Republic,
would have added Sardinia to this usurpation.
cc When France surprised and usurped Piedmont,
a Pension was promised. its Sovereign which never
has been paid, and Indemnities which he never has
received ; and since the Continent of' Europe, only
with unavailing pity, has seen force and fraud di.
vest this Prince. of the most valuable inheritance of
his Ancestors, it has no reason to complain, and no
right to interfere, because he trusts only to British
Honour and to British Generosity for the future
support and maintenance of himself and his family.
el The English and. other Foreign Nobility and
Gentry continue to fraternize with men guilty of
revolutionary crimes, and grown rich by revolu.
tionary plunder ; men, who in their own country,
they certainly would nat. permit 'to come within
their doors. Last week, at a Ball given by a man
now worth millions (but formerly a Porter to a
Wine-merchant, and one. of the persons who on the
6th oClober 1780, carried from Versailles to Paris,
before the carriage of the Royal Family, the heads
of the King's Garde de Corps) most Foreigners of
distinetion were present, together with the Regi.
cities Met; Foucnr, StEy es, CARNOT, &c.
and an Unusual'number of other Revolutionary Gen.
try, as the Senator GAttAT, who signed the Death
Sentence of his King, the Tribune GROW/ELLE, who
read the Death Sentence to his King, and Gen. SAN.
TERRE, who with a shocking brutality, carried his
unfortunate King to the scaffold ! ! When German and.
Rosian Princes, English Peers, and Spanish Grandees
are found in such company, who dare todeny the ion
fatal progress of jacobinism in all classes of society
every where. BONAPARTE has more than once
said that the Revolution was at an end---his Prefeek
of the Police at Paris, is however of a different
opinion ; he has just renewed all the former Revo-
lutionary Laws and slavish terrorist Regulations
to which persons travelling in free France are sub..
jet ; this is particularly diretled against English
Travellbrs, as either from ignorance of the numerous ,
formalities required here to make passports: valid,
or unaccustomed to those degrading and trouble.
some inventions in their own country, they, snore'
than other Travellers, negleet or forget them ; and
nothing is more agreeable to a French Police Agent
than to send proud John Bull to Prison, and to re-
ceive some guineas for setting him again at liberty."

DIED.

On Friday morning, Mrs. Hall, the wifenf Richard Hall,
Esq. of Lawrence-lane, Cheapside.
On Saturday murning last, Mr. FoUdrinier, Stationer,
Charing•cross.