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London, England, 1825-11-19 00:00:00

TRICE SEVEN PENCE.

an I the other by the rivers Arnazuro ar'd St. Jean.—
The communication through the bay of St. Jean, and the
lake of the same name, is the easiest and shortest. This
bay is very large and beautiful. It is about2oleioer .
long from East to West, and fram four to five, and, in
certain places, six leagues broad. There is everywhere
to be found from five to six and seven fathoms water,
except towards the extremity, where the passage com-
municates with the lake of St. Esprit, and where there
is no mine than two fathoms water. The mouth of this
bay is covered by an island one leagtie and a 'half in
length, %%hie' forms two passages, one north and the
other south. The pass tge on the north side is in la'.
27 deg. SO nun. The mouth of the bay is about three
eagu-s wide. Th• re are on the north side several small
isl ilids alo.nj the coast; after which you v.lll see a hol-
low or opening tu o leagues wide, the depth of which
has no-. yet ascertain ; and through which a
communicatirit can be had . :Lit the Bay r f S:. Joseph,
the ni,uth of which is twelve leagues north front tha:
of Sr. Esnrit.
" At tlie extremity of tin? Bay of St. Esprit you en•
ter the lake of the same name, through a branch or
Canal upwards of two leagues in length. This lake is
more than twenty-two leagues long from ninth to
south, and from six to even leagues broad. It communi-
cates, :st various laces, v. ith the Bahama Channel. Tie
principal one, ani best known. is at its southern eat:e-
ntity, three leagtws west of the Flutida Point, in lat. 26
deg. 20 in n. This entrance lies nearly south east ar:d
north u est two leagues, at-the end of u hich you will find
two Banks or Shallows, ani six small hands, called the
Islands of St. Esprit. The interior of this great lake is
very little known.
44 The river Amazuro is 18 leagues North from the
Bay of S. Esprit. in lat. 28 deg. 25 min. At its mouth
it is more than thee leagues wide, and continues one
league wide for the distance of more than ten leagues.
In t unoing up you will find several branches or chan-
nels acr7ss a great number of Islands, forming a pas.
sage, by the means of which you can communicate with
the Atlantic Ocean, out of the Bahama Channel, above
Carhaveral, a:ross the river Musquito, the mouth of
Alricltis in lat tilde net deg. 50 minutes, or by II e river
St. Litiaeolle !youth of which is in lat. 27 deg. 53
The t t er of St. Lucie communicates with the 'lay and
Lake of Sr. This c'mimuniL ation is shorter
titan that by the riier Atnazuro ; lut the pi inci; al
passage is that which is supposed to communicateby
canal direct with the liver of St. Jean, the mouth of
which, on the Atlantic Ocean, is in lat. 30 deg. 20 min.
about seven leagtws North of St. Augustine. Such a
passage, well known, would be of great importance
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and util ty:'

COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

FROM THE ETOILE, FRENCH PAPER.
The crisis %%hid' is taking place at the Exchange enea
not any way affect either the maritime or internal com-
merce, or agricultural and manufacturing industry ; all
these branches, on the contrary, are in the road of sensi-
ble improvement, and prepare collectively an increa e
of public wealth, which must, in there ulr, have a very
favourable effect oron every species of pt eductive vat e.
-
The exports of articles manufacture d in Paris, which
appeared so extraordinary in 1824, are still more so in
1825, since in the first ten months of the sea-, according
to the information which has been obtained at the
Custom-house, tl.t value of these exports exceeded that
of the entire preceding year. T. a momentary embar-
rassment which is experienced in Paris m y be attributed
to the seventy or eighty millions which have been sud-
denly dra out for the purchase of wines in Bordeaux,
Burgundy, and the South, the quality of which, is (*-
dared this year excellent. And who can say that
this wealth, spread through die country, may not again
increase production, or he partly distributed in the
public funds? The thirty or forty millions which the
Bank advan:ed upon the certificate of the last loan,
convet ted into 4. per cents. and which, if it at this mo-
ment withdraws from circulation, increases the embar-
rassment, and has served for food to the speculators for
a fall, as well as for a pretext to c tpitalists to augment
the:r pretensions ; but these thirty or forty millions may
again come out of the Bank upon the deposit of Rentes,
or of good signa'utes, and the forty maons of sove-
reigns, of which we have spoken, and which the Mint
may meet io ten days, may enable it to assist, by more
than eighty mill ons, the liquidation of the month,
without in tl-.e least weakening the solidity of its posi-
tion. We repeat that every branch of commerce and
industry is in a satisfactory state, and this result of a
few acts of the Government clearly points out to it the
finite which it has to follow.—Why, then, does the
Bank of France, by a n arose and unnecessary prece-
dence, contribute to create an evil which did not really
mast, instead of preterving commerce, as in duty bound, ,
from the evil which threatened it ? No, the Bank, we
are persuaded, will not act s.), and we have already a
guarantee of our opinion in the facility with which, du-
ring the last few days, it has discounted the paper which
has been presented. As every one exaggerates his fears,
we should not be surprised if abundance a ere to suc-
ceed in a few days to embarra sment, and if persons
were to be embarrassed by those very funds which they
now fear will fail them.
FROM THE QUOTIDIENNZ.
It appears that the kind of Custom house war which
has arisen since the peace between France and Sweden,
is on the point of being terminated. It is said that
ft om the Ist of Jatoialy next, the Swe,ri h Government
will moderate the heavy duties, amnun it g to a plot) b -
tion, which it had laid on the French pioducttons,
ticularly the wines of Bordeaux. The FreliCir Govern-
ment will, on the other hand, adopt a mo:e niodt TA:e
tariff on goods coming from Sweden and Norway. Mt
parties will gain by this reduction, especially the public
Exchequer, it being notorious that in taxation two and
two do not always make four.

The Commissioners of the United Stres have con-
cluded a Treaty with the Osage Indians, by which, for
the small sum of three hundred dollars, they are allowed
to corral uct a road through the territory of that trite
towards Mexico. A similar treaty is in progress with
the Kansas, the only other tribe whose lands ruterverre
between the two countries.