Star.
London, England, 1802-04-17 00:00:00

SP/EDEN.

Srocamocia, MsacH iB.—ln the sift number,
of the Hamburgh Correfpeaderstm of this year,
iinnething is laid of the Swcdifh Finances, which
i.: altogether imperfect and erroneous : the National
Debt is given, but without remarking of what
nature it is. A reference is made to the Report
lately given in by the. Reviewers, of the Admini-
ftration of the National Debt Office of the States
of the Kingdom ; but its contents are mangled,
and things put out of their natural comedion. A
corral account on this fubjed mutt be icterefting
to every body who is defirous of a bsiowledge of
the internal condition of States, and their relations
to one another. It is therefore confidercd as a
duty, by an extra& from the cited Report, to re-'
prefent the pi&ure of the Swedilh Finances as it
roily is. _ _ _

For this purpofe it is necefrary previoufly to re-
mark, that the Lufinefs of the National Debt Of-
fice iz twofold ; firlt, to adminifler the foreign and
internal debt for the loans made ; fecondly, to make
out bills of crcdit, which are current as money,
till further orders.

For Loans, the Adminilleators of the National
Debt Office are commiffioned to make out their
obligations, with the approbation of the King,
under the guarantee of the States of the king-
dom, and for the liquidation of the intcreft and
principal, to difpofe of a yearly-fund, peculiarly
appropriated to that purpofe, and direelly flowing
into the office, of about one million and a half of
riz-dollat, of Swedifh coinage.
On the other fide, the bills of credit are ac-
cording to a plan particularly efiablifhed by the
King and the States, by peculiar means for that
purpofe, approved by the latter, to be realized at
thort periods, and drawn in, by meant of real
money, from the Bank of the States of the King-
dom. They arc now on the receipt of the first
half of thele funds, which are for the greateit
part collated. The country has in general (hewn
an emulation in bearing this extraordinary impoft,
of which the second half will be brought in with-
in not many months, on which the realization will
be accomplifhed.
In conformity to the order of the States, that
the adminittration of their National Debt Office
(hould be examined one year after another by Re-
viewers chi fen by themfelves, and the Report of,
the latter on the (late in which they find it (bould
be printed for the information of the Public, the
Taft Reviewers have, in their Report of the 29th
of November hill, (hewn,
That the Foreign Debt, on the tit of R. 4. Ss. R.
January, 799, was x 0,63741; 21 9
And remitted that the State. of the King-
dom, at the latt Diet, in the year do*,
Dad contradcd a new debt, in the
greateft part foreign of - 66;Ato 6 a
In the whole, -14307,4 et 28 o
But according to the fame Report, the Fo-
reign Debt, two years after, or on the eft
of January, 1801. was only - 109397443 23 10
Whereby it appears, that during tbigfe two
years this debt was leaved by 909,918 4

11,307,461 al 0
The Internal Debt for borrowed Capital.
amounted, on the IR January, 1799, to 3436,6 A 13 St
But on the lit of January, clot, to - 1;87,738 18 1
The difference between there two furnst or
248,870 It. d. 511. 7r. has been paid off in' the
co•trie of the time before•mentioncd ; fo that the
whole reduttion of this debt, during the two years
in queltion, is 1,158,768 R. d. 9Q. 9r. and the
foreign and internal Debt, for which the Office
had to provide on the tft of January, 1891, makes
13,834,1544. d. 4711 74r.
The amount of the bills of credit on the con-
trary, of the nature and extinltion of which men-
tion is made above, has been, during there two',
years, from the ill of January, 1799, to the ill of
January, ;891, increafed from 14,313,741 R. d.
3 t ft. 3r. to '6;093,968 R.d. 3 ft. 4r. But the
Reviewers obferve in their Report, that the fre-
quency of difcount with there bills is properly the
thing which iss common order determines the re-
lation of the Bill of Credit Stock, as this mils i
upon the large QT (mall advancos- of the National.
Debt Office, which the Stockholm Dilcount Efta-
, blifhment wants. As a proof of this they obferve
conclulively, that the amount of the bills of
credit, in the courfe of the year 1891, only made
17,73t,z04R.d. 2211. 6r. notwithftanding that in
the mean time the National Debt Office made an
advance of 500,000 R.d. for the purchafe of
corn, &c.

The author of the Account of the State of the
Swedilh Debt in the Hamburgh Correfpondent
has, on the contrary, thrown all this together,
without dillinguifhing the bills of credit from the
real debt, for which the National Debt Office is
anfwerable with its funds.

MARCH 19.-19te Deputies of tl•t Bank, and of
the Office of the National Debt, will affemble to.
morrow morning at to o'elock,when the King will
caste to be laid before them a itate (Jibe kingdom
for the Ixll year, whereupon the► are to make a re-
port, which will be fcaled and laid before the next
Diet.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 13.

We hear ft om Vienna that all kinds of provitions
are become excetlively dear, and that loqigings arc
fo beyond expreilion.
The fmall town of Gernfheim, fituated in the
territory of Mentz, on the right bank of the Rhine,
is in danger of being deal oyed by the waters of that
river,fince it h.,.s altered its courfe—in order, how-
ever, as much as poilible to prevent fuch a cala-
mity, thick dykes are about to be railed. The
Eleetoral Chapter of Mentz, and all the convents,
have been called upon to lend Alliance on the oc-
cation, that the work may be immediately under-
taken. The EleCtor has already advanced 90,c00
florins.

We learn from Hamburgh that his Imperial and
Royal Majesty, as Supreme Head of the Empire,
has taken into his own hands the important cafe of
the Prince of Salm Kyrbourg. Three Commif-
tioners, of whom the Connielfor of State GELLER
is one, have been appointed to invelligate the affair
de novo. It will, lays our intormant, prove an ex-
penfive bufinefs. The Danish Government having
allowed the Prince, lince the Ertl day he was taken
into cullody, 36 marks a week. Four other pert,
fons, viz. M. and Madame BONNIVET, M. Pi si 1
KENT, and BEAUMONT, implicated in the forgeii,:
were brought toHamburAh on the 29th ult. 'I here
people were taken up at Ehrenbreitaein ; the
were in heavy irons, the woman was in a cart b}
herfelt, and furrounded fcveral boxes, which lira
fuppofed to contain the tools, Ric. with whirls tile!
notes were fabricated. It is.faid that the female was pl
not at all concerned in the forgery, and that ilr
accompanies her hnlband merely for the purpon of
alleviating the rigour of his fituation. She
however, confined.
After the confecration of Citizen:, C tiaEACERis,
PANCEMLNr, and BERNIER, the Cardinal Legate
yetterday inftalled the new Archbithop cf Parts.
The Miniaer of the Interior was prcfent at the ce•
remony. The Cardinal Legate and his train were
efcorted to and from Notre Dame by feveral de-
tachments of cavalry.
M. de ROCWELEURE, formerly Bishop of Senlis,
is appointed to the Archbilhopric of Mechlin. M.
BERNIER is appointed Bithop of Orleans, and not
of Verfailles.

The following letter, dated the 7th Germinal,
has been fent by the Milliner of Marine to the prin-
cipal Commifrary at Bourdeaux :
44 I have communicated to the Mininer of the
Interior what you have mentioned to me rdlative
to the checks which trade experiences in embarking
the provifion necelTary for the crews of the mer-
chant (hips, and I do not doubt of his diminifhing
the formalities which are now required. I !hall even
requeft him to authorife the trade to carry, on their
own account, the corn which it fhall be deemed ne-
ceffary to fend to St. Domingo."
The French General commanding in the Valais,
has iffued the following Proclamation to the un-
happy Swifs, who yet entertain the abfurd notion
that they are free :

" Had Qgarters, rt Sion. March u.

" Gener.dTURMIU, Commandant General of
the Valais, confidering that there exill in the Valais
individualsinimical to the public tranquillity,whofe
meafures tend to difturb the quiet, and miflead the
minds of good citizens ; that feveral of thofe citi•
zens, themfelves deputies of the Valais,
have tranftnitted to the Helvetic Government their
own willies for thole of their Communes • that
among thofe individuals there are men who be-
longed to the bands of revolters in the years 1798
and 1799, and who have twice already been faved
by the national indulgence ; that thefe men have
dared to promife the fupport of the Helvetic Go-
vernment for the legalizing of their meafures,
which provoke difobedience to the laws and the
Magifirates who are the organs of them :
on the contrary, that Government inceffently re-
commends fubmiffion to the laws, and deference
for the ,kuthorities ; confidering, in fine, that
longer indulgence on the part of the General might
compromife the public repofe, and force him af-
terwards to have recourfe to violentmeafures to re-
eflablif4 it, decrees—l ft. The Citizens, (their
names are mentioned), (hall receive orders to re-
pair to Sion in twenty-tour hours from the notifi-
cation of the prefent decree, and (hall remain under
the fuperintendance of the civil and military au-
thorities till further orders—ad. The General Pre
feet is charged with the execution of this decree.
(Signed) TURREAII."