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London, England, 1825-09-12 00:00:00

RUSSIAN PUBLIC DEBT.

According to the declaration made by the Minister
of Finance, the public debts of Russia are as follows:
First el January, 18'24, the Dutch debt amounted to
93,6000,000 florins, of which 47,600,000 are chargeable
on Russia.lntet nal Debts—Limited Annuities,3,o26,ooo
silver roubles 31,162,466 roubles 67 copecks in as•
signats (Bills of Exchequer.) Ditto—Perpetual An-
nuities, 6 per Cent. Fund, 20,620 gold roubles,
8,831,112 roubles 93 copecks and a half in silver, and
229,465,611 roubles in assignats. In this number are
comprised the unredeemable debts to she amount of
2,520 roubles in gold, 3,729,293 cNiecks and a half in
' silver, and 37,893,111 paper roubles. Debts on the
Perpetual Five per Cent. Fund, 70,677,200 roubles in
silver. On the Ist of January, 1825, the National
Debt comprised the Dutch debt, 92,600,000 florins, of
which 47,100,000 florins were on account of Russia.
Internal Debts—Limited Annuities, 2,688,000 silver
roubles; 27,536,000 paper roubles. Ditto Perpetual
Annuities, 6 per cent. 20,620 roubles in gold, 8,491,812
roubles 93 copecks and a half in silver, and 226.096,411
paper roubles. The Unredeemable Debts comprise, in
the foregoing numbers, 2,520 roubles in gold; 37,292
roubles 93 copecks and a half in silver, and 37,913,111
• paper roubles. Perpetual Annuities, five per cent. are
10,077.476,500 silver roubles. The total mount of
Bank Bills in circulation has undergone no fluctuation
in the course of the year 1824, and it will be on the Ist
of January of the present year, as it was in that of the
past, 595,776,310 roubles.
In the course of the year 1824, the Bank received in
deposits hearing interest, the sum of 27,805,193 rou-
bles, 27i- copecks, in paper roubles ; the deposits re-
turned in the same time amounted to 9,235 roubles, 13
copecks in silver, and 28,528,163 roubles, 24 copecks'
and a half in paper.
The deposits corfided to the Commercial Bank and
its blanches, together with the sums remaining in 1823,
to: med collectively in 1824, the following quantities—
Sums in►ended for transfer, 23,962 roubles, 83 copecks
in gold, 6!-6,170 roubles, 38 copecks in silver, and
56,152 201 roubles, 64 copecks in pap-r.
• The deposits bearing interest-1..532,946 roubles in
gold. 5,238.098 roubles, 41 copecks in silver, and
116,292,249 roubles 2 copecks in paper. In the whole,
•insluding the capital of the Bank, 1,556,908 roubles,
83 copecks in gold, 5,924,277 roubles, 79 copecks in
silver, and 202,543,150 roubles and GO copecks in
paper.—Journal des Debate.

Extract of a private letter from an Officer at Napoli
di Romania :—" 1 have learned from au Englishman,
a great admirer of the Greeks, who has just arrived
frrim Hydra, that 200 Turkish prisoners, who had been
for months in captivity, were led out by the Greeks,
and butchered in the street with knives, stilettoes, and
even forks. Scarcely had these unhappy victims met
their late, and were still in the agonies of death, when
the Turkisn slaves, who were prisoners of war, and bad
been for years domesticated in the families of their
masters, were brought forth, each by his owner, and
deliberately slaughtered in a similar mariner. On the
cruelty of tl.is massacre being represented to some of
the Greek Captains, they only replied by laughing,
and mimicking the actions of the Turks, wltilst on the
point cf being stuck. These poor wretches met their
fate in a manner the most calm and devoted that can
possibly be imagined. This shocking scene is sup-
posed to have originate's! in the following circum-
stance :—A Turkish prisoner, on board A Hydra
brig in the Greek fleet, hay. inebecn Most cruelly blerten
and ili-used. and thereby driven to despe.ratjelr, entered
the magazine of the vessel, and put a match to it, in this
manner destroying himself end all but about twenty of
• the Greeks. To prevent a recurrence of this act of
desperation, the Greek fleet, consisting of seventy-five
well of war, have received orders to tdke no more pri-
soners, but to slaughter their enemies as soon as they
fall' into their Lanai. Ibrahim Pacta has probably
isearcliCtraii, for be caused all thc Greek women and
children at halona to be massacred on his return."