Star.
London, England, 1802-06-09 00:00:00

FRENCH FUNDS.

Monied men will feel themfelves interefted in
the contents of the following ftatement, which
has been circulated in London, evidently with an
intention to mite the value of the French Funds in
the ellimation of the people of this country; and
even thofe who are unacquainted with the na-
ture and deli' iption of the preterit monied fyftcm
of France will derive much curious and ufeful in-
formation from its pertifal.
We need hardly pretni.c, that few who have at-
tended to the progrefs as courfe of the French
Funds will be induced, even from this ftatement,
to veft their property in them.
It is candidly confdfed, that the Tiers Confotid;,
which produce at the prefect price nearly to per
cent. areifix months in arrear ; and though it is
Paid there is an intention of paying them up, we
know that the anticipation of the French Govern-
ment are (trained to the let point, and that there
is no probability of confinningifuch intention. The
array, of the French Government amount to about
one year's expenditure, or nearly twenty millions
Reding, and its asstieipatiaru to flatten millions,
making in all the enormous furn of 36 EngliOs, or
864 French millions ! This, although . bad at-
tendant upon Pubric Creek and National ithifity, does
not excite fo much diftrnit as the very nature of
the capital itfelf, which is a confolidaied third of law-
ful delgt, redaced by a kniruptcy, vohwary with re-
gard to the debtor, and comintlfive, as it rflitelle the
ruined and defrauded creditor. There is not a nation
in Enrofre where we may not fee the individual
creditors of France, walking almoft without (hoes,
and depending upon foreign charity for a morfel
of bread. There is not a wealthy City on the,
Continent that has not fuffered for the confidence
repofed in. French Funds; Venice and Genoa in par-
ticular. Florence, Geneva, Antwerp, and ilnylerdani,
have all loft more or lets from the fame caufc. .

STATIMINT 07 THS FRISCH FUNDS AND CONIOLL.
DATID FLOATING DIST.
Paris. April I.

Titßs CONSOLIDE,

The booked or confolidated debt,, called Tiers
&OUP from its being the confolidated third of
the debt, of which the remaining two thirds were
reimburfed in Bow de Dam Tiers in 1797, 98. It
bears intereil at five per cent. payable at the Bank
of France every fix months. The payment of the
intereft is at prefent fix months in arrear ; but the
intention of Government is, by paying off Liftecie
the intereft of one whole year, to pay in future as
Coon as due. The pay days are, ,a Germinal
(anfwering to 22d March), and the rR Vendamiaire (anfwering to 22d September). This flock,
purchafed at the prefent price of 55 to 60, would
produce from eight to nine per cent. The gene-
ral opinion is, that it will rife to 8o ; and as it is
the chief flock, and the flandard of the national
credit and refources, it is the intereft, and muff
be the conflant ohjeft of Government to keep up
its prim There is a finking fund (Cai, d'Ancr-
ifferona) for the fpecial purpofe of paying off this
Rock, of which the effe&, though not yet exactly
known, mutt very &only be confiderable. This
Rock is faleable, and transferable at a moment's
warning, and at a very trifling expence ; it is not
fubjefl to taxation, nor open to attachments either
on the principal or interefl.

TIERS PROV

The yet nnbooled debt being compofed of the
tropijional chums of the creditors of the Emigrants,
the contraelors, and various other holders of
claims on Government. The Tier: Provifoire is to
be booked before the 22d September, 1803, and
will from that day bear interefi of five per cent. ;
fo that feting afide the danger of any retrofpce
in the interval, and that of any other change, it
is at the prefent price of 45 to so cheaper than the
Tier: Coafedieli, to which, in about eighteen Months,
it will be in every refpeet aflimilated.

DONS DE DEUX TIERS,
Paper iffued for the purpofe of reimburfing
the reduced two-thirds of the national debt, and
in the origin rendered applicable to the purchafe
of national l'es and elates in the French colonies,
fince ordered to be funded at five per cent- So that
their price is entirely fubordinate to that of the
Tim Confide ; and luppoling that to be 6.01. per
cent. the BOA? de Dant Tar: would be worth 31.—
There are no hopes, however diftant, of Govern-
ment ever restoring the Bons de Deux Tim to their
original value.

DONS DI TROY QI.JART,
So called from their having been ailed for the
purport of rtimhurfing the three fourths of the
!Inerea of the sth and 6 h years Om to 1798).
They are affimilated in all retinas to the prece-
ding flock.