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LONDON,
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1818.

The attention of our Readers will naturally be
dawn to the SRCoND REPORT of the State of
the French Finances, of which they will find
a sketch in our Paper this day, extracted from
the Paris Journals of Tuesday, which arrived
last night. It appears that the expences of
the current year will not be less than those of
the teat. This is an extraordinary tact, as the
Country has been relieved of 30,000 of the Al-
lied Troops. It is extraordinary also, that the
French Government should think of raising a nu-
merous Army while it has many heavy demands upon
it, which it would be very difficult for it to settle,
even if it did not incur the expence of raising a
new Army. We have often animadverted on the
impolicy of raising a new Army in the present
state of France, which most probably owes its
peace and security to the presence of the Allied
Troops. Most sincerely must every good man,
and every sound Politician, wish to see France
assume her proper rank among nations, and be
able to support her own independence without an-
noying other States. But there are at this
time many factions in France, and the Jaco-
bins are always on the watch to rise upon
the ruin of all the others. Much as the Ultras
have suffered, and much as they are entitled to
respect and sympathy, they do not, as we have
before said, seem to have profited by experience,
and apparently wish to carry matters with too
high a hand. The effects of the dreadful Revo-
lution will be felt for many years to come, and
its baneful doctrines have had too mischievous an
operation on the lower orders of people in all
other States. To the elevation of the rabble in
France, may, in a great degree, 1)e imputed
the seditious and rebellious movements of the
rabble in this country, particularly as they
arc incited and excused every day in The Morn-
ing Chronicle, and other factious Prints, the
Conductors of which might, perhaps, have been,
and some, we believe, really were, Constitutional
Whigs, who wished to support a Monarchical
Government, while they resolutely maintained the
rights of the representative body of the People.
But where are such Constitutional Whigs now to
be found among any of our Opposition Prints,
which are evidently strongly tinctured with a Ja-
cobin taint ? But to return to France and her
Budget. Let her discharge her debts, and instead
of attempting at present to raise a powerful Army,
which might be employed in accomplishing her
own ruin, wisely entrust herself to the protection
of the Allied Forces. What can she have to fear
under such protection ?. The same Powers which
delivered her from a wicked and ferocious Despot
could easily divide and parcel her our among
themselves, if they were influenced by am-
bition or rapacity. In fact, the Allies act as
French army, to prevent the country from
preying on itself, as well as from disturbing all
other States. The removal of that army would
be the signal for revolt, and we trust that the
British Government, and the Allied Powers in
general, will not think themselves bound to the
letter of any Treaty contrary to its obvious spirit
and general tendency, which require the con-
tinuance of their troops in France till they can
be withdrawn with safety to that country and se-
curity to the rest of Europe.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday last, which
svere due this morning, have not conic to band.

A number of persons, who :tiled themselves In-
dependent Voters of the Town and Borough of
Southwark, assembled on Thursday night at the
Nag's Head Tavern in that place, for the purpose
of nominating Sir ROBERT WILSON as a Candidate
for the honour of being one of the Representa-
tives of that ancient Borough. What are the
pretensions of Sir Robert Wilson, to o seat in