Star.
London, England, 1825-09-08 00:00:00

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The Journal deg I repeats to-day, knowingly,
a filsaNiatebsent, wftte ha** already contradieted.
We have never said that France could not blockade the
ports of St. Domiage because England `"
would not suffer
u. Such an insult to the Watiosal honour can only be
imagined by a :mutual which lauds every day the fo-
reigner--at die 'epees& of hia own country. Thank
Heaven, every-boat knows that our respect for.,Fraisce
is a little greater this that* of the writer of tha.Journal
des Debats ; for " with'. us. Francedoes not -date from
1789. The phrases.Whicli thelournal desMals refers
to belonged to an -article of the- ../ffernorial Bordelais,
which is known by its oppositicm to the Ministrl, and
which incessantly republishes the articles of the Journal
des Deb*.
Individuals from Paris have already traversed the
great cities, to purchase the indemnity wh:cts will be
Loming to the colonist of St.-Domingo, or to offer their
assistance in obtaining for them their proportions. They
even insinuate that they have a commission from the
French Goiernment to make these purchases. •
These individuals are, without doubt, the same par-
ties who wished to treat for the indemnity due to the

emints'.
reconsider it our duty to apprise the colonists of
St. Domingo, that the Administration will, no doubt.
take the same precautions in this case as were adopted
in favour of the emigrants, to insure them tu.l payment
without expense, and without the intervention of a class
of men, who, under the pretext of protecting their in-
terests, seek but to turn to their own profit the indem-
nity reserved for misfortune.
It is to be remembered, that while a re-action was
made to depress the French Funds, by announcing that
an ordonnance for re-establishing the censorship was to
appear the next day in the Moniteur, in England the
re-action for the fall which took place on the Exchange
on Friday, was founded on a report spread abroad that
a French fleet had been seen steering for Cuba, to take
p3ssession of that island. The fleet is that which ap-
peared at. St. Domingo, and which proceeds towards
the Azores, to manoeuvre before it returns to France.—
ktoi/e.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1825.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 691 1 for the Account, and
soon after were done at 681 1, and are now at 681 j 1, with a
steady Market.
In the %reign Market all the South American Securities are
improving.
Current Prices: New Spanish 161, OW Spanish 211, Russian
9.31, Mexican 731, Colombian New 79, Brazilian Scrip 8 disc•
Mexican Scrip 7 disc. Danish Scrip 61 1 disc. Greek Scrip 17 161
disc. Madinah s 14 discount.
PRICK OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.

Sauk Stock/Shut.
3 per Cent. Red. Shut.
S per Cent. Coos. 881,E %
SX per Cent. 9714 98%
Si per Cent. Red. Shot.
4 per Cent. New 103% 104
Laos Ann. Shut.
India Hoods 16 17
£l,OOO Ezcheq. Bilis 4 3
0 ditto 3 5
LIOU and 1:400 ditto 3 5
Cons. tor Acct. 88V4 Vs 494

In another column we have inserted an Ordonnance,
dated the Gth of June, Which was issued by his Ex-
cellency the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, for
rendering British. money a legal tender in that Colony.
This measure, which is unquestionably one of some
importance, as affecting the interests of Commerce, is
founded on instructions from the British Government,
and appears to be the commencement of a systematic
and praiseworthy endeavour to substitute one simple
and well known measure of value, in the shape of
British Currency, for the endless and complicated
variety of denominations, under which pecuniary trans-
actions are adjusted in our numerous and extensive
Colonial possessions. Our Readers are aware, that
almost every Colony has hitherto had its own peculiar
paper currency, which fluctuates in reference to sterling
money, according to the quantity which its local
Government may have issue I, and according to
the state of Exchange with England. Hence the
Officers of the British Government established at
the several Colonies in their disbursements for stores,
provisions, wages of labour, &c. all kept their ac-
counts in different denominations, and any check
on those accounts in their subsequent audit in
this country, became difficult and sometimes inefficient
One instance, and that in the case of the Cape of Good
Hope, will explain the whole. The paper money of
this Colony recognises an imaginary measure cf value,
called a viz-dollar. A fortnight ago Mr. Goan; the
Purser of one of his Majesty's ships lately returned from
that station, was ti ied by a Naval Court• Martial at
Chatham, and the principal charge was that in paying
the ship's company for savings of provisions, with
riz-dollars instead of sterling money, he had only
Glowed them ten viz-dollars for one pound ster-
ling ; *heroes it was affirmed that he ought to hays
allowed them fourteen, inasmuch as a bill irawrrfrom
the Cape on Government at home would have been
cashed at that rate. To which he replied, and perhaps
truly, that this circumstance was owing not to the di-
minished value of the viz dollar, but to the increased
demand for Government Bills, in order drat the co-
lonists might make their remittances to England in an
unquestionable security. By the ordonnance which we
have inserted, it is now declared to be colonial law that'
thirteen and One third rix dollars are equal to one

pound sterling, sir that forty of them are equal to three
pounds ; and that all debts owing either to Government
or individuals in the denomination of riz dollars, may
be liquidated by sterling money in. that proportio—
Whereas formerly the debtor' would never know, how
much sterling money would'clizeharga his debt, as the