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London, England, 1815-08-21 00:00:00

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PAR/S. AUGUST
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Letts, W dis Once of 04 Mg of Waage and Nanny, &e.
The outrage committed on France compelled the
foreign Powers to cause their armies to enter it, in
order to reach the enemy of their s-curity. They
occupy our territory; these calamities would have
bees prevented, had our voice been more listened to;
but far groin our heart be all recrimination ! The

sufferings of our people permit us to think only of
their mitigation, waiting in the mean time for the
not-distant moment which must pot an end to them.
Circomstances are such, that we have not the choice
of means; it became our duty therefore to resort to
that which appeared to present the least inconve-
nience, and to be best calculated to relieve those of
our subjects who have suffered the most, by inviting
t.) share in their [milieus those upon whom requisi-
tions have not hitherto borne heavy.
We have therefore resolved to establish provision-
ally an extraordinary contribution, to be partitioned
among the different departments in proportion to
their resources, hoping that, however heavy these sa-
crifices may be, they will be less so than the mainte-
nance
of a system without calculation nod rules.
Full of confidence in the patriotism ..of the princi-,
pal merchants, landholders, and capitalists, we wish
to associate them in our solicitude for the relief of
our countrymen ruined by events, without, however,
meaning that the sums which they shall pay beyond
their portion of contribution shall definitively remain
a charge to them, and considering these excesses as
mere loans for the purpose of giving the extraordi-
nary levy an acceleration proportioned to the urgency
of wants. .

Considering that the evil which increases from day
to day does not permit us to wait fat the Assembling
of the two Chan:bets, in order to concert with than
the measures wffich it dictates:
For these causes we have ordained and do ordain
as follows:
AET. 1. 'There shall be raised extraordinarily, and placed in
the Royal Treasury, as a war requisition, a sum of one hundred
millions un 1111 departments, and in the proportions fixed. an, the
subjoined tratemenr.
2. 'nen: ...tall be added to the contingent of each department
a fund of hon-svleurs, 01 ten cents per franc, by means ut which
the whole of the contingent may enter the 'reasury.
S. The sum remaining disposabk an this hind of sem vabscs

shall belong so the department, and shall he employed un ate pd.
vare expense.. Should the produce of the ten costs nut cover
these non swirl:it, the difference shall be again repartilioned upon
the departineut.
4. The extraordinary charge in question shall be provisionally
borne by the chief capitalists, tradesmen, and landholders of eacb ,
department. •
S. The two Chambers, at their approaching eeseltus, shall de.'
code as to the definitive repartition of this war contribution, audl
the repayment of the sums which shall have lawn paid beyond
the definitive coo legate
d. ft. fix the aunt to be furnished by every capitalist, trades-
man, or landholder, there shall be formed by each Prefect a
Commit:re, moaning of the Mayor of the head town of the
Department, the Receiver• General, amt five Members chosen
by the Prefect trout the Council of Prefecture, and arum among
the principal landholder.' amid capitalists.
he Directors of direct and indirect taxation and registra•
dun, may be invited by the Prelect, and take part in the deli-
berations.
7. •Flds Ceounittee shall be charged : I. To apportion among
the different districts the contingent assigned to the department
e. To proceed, fur the district of the chief town, in its ap-
port ionmeet ansueg the chid capitalists, tradesmen, and land.
hotter
a. For a similar apportionment in the other districts, there
dial be formed a sepal ate Committee in each, composed of she
sub-Prefec., a narsubi•r of tee Council of Oistre.t, and two
pritic,pal inhabitants, all three designated by the Sub • Prefect,
the Mayor of the chief town of the district, and !lie Receiver.
A. The Conamitte,.s of Department and of lls• r.i.t shall form
witlun ten days 'lnes of the individual appottiournents of the
contingents respectiv. ly assigned to them.
11e.e lists shall receive an asimini.trative form, and be
read• red executable by the Prefect.
11. .1 he sum assigned to each capitsli,t, Ste. shall be die.
charged by quarte(ly payments between the I atit of September
• and the lath of November, at periods to be fixed by the Com-
mitter.
12. The Receivers-General and Particular in their respective
districts shall draw bills payable at the ea d fixed periods, en the
indiv.sluals borne on the lists rendered executabie by the Prefect.
13. I he hills must lie accepted, on presentatiou, by Ow drawees,
payable either at the domicile cat their Receiver-General or Par-
ticular, or at a duniicile in earls if they clause, on pain of judi-
cial prostcui toe, ash, inmates of connate ce.
i. All refusal or delay to accept the said bills on presentae
don, shill leauthenticated by a protest in the ordinary form, and
shall render the amount n! the hill immediately demandable. The
recovery shall be prosecuted by personasl constraint dud executime
13..1 he Receivers General and particular shell enjoy, for the
recovery of this contribution the S3lll, poundage as for the ran.
very of the orstinary direct taxes.
16. The bills to. be subscribed in execution of this ordinance
shall not, like other public effects, be subject to anyitamp may.
17. Our Minister Secretary of State fur Finance is charged
with the execution of the present ordinance.
Given at the Thuilieries, this teth of August, 11115.
(619 ed) Louis.
By the King, . Baron Louts, Minister of Flame&
[Next follows a list of the sums charged on each
Department respectively. That charged on the De.
pas tment of the Seine amounts to 13,340,000 franca,
and that on the Gironde to 5,330,000 francs].
Another Ordinance of the King on the subject of
.the University of France, continues, until, the adop.
tiun of definitive regulations, the tax of a 20th on the
expenses of education, established by the dectee of
the 17th of March, 18:43. The• powers of the Grand
Master of the University are to be vested in the hands
of a Commission of public instruction, consisting of
Messrs. Royer, Colard, Cuvier, Silvcster de &icy,
the Abbe Frayssinous, De Mussy, and Pettitot.
A General Order of Marshal the Duke of Taren
turn, commanding the Army of the Loire, and dated
lloorges, the 10th August, is of the following import:
•• ha execution of the orderCotide Excellency theldinister at
War, the Generals, and Olken of the Stall, whose army corps,
or divisions have been dissolved, the Officers of all ranks, without
troops, and the Aihniuistmtors without functions, shall retire to
the:r homes.
•
6' Five da)s after the publication of the present order, pro-
visions and forage shall cease to be furnished to them; but there
shall be delivered ter them cards of route with autholisation for
lodging, rations, mid forage, while they shall be an the district
I.of the army." •

PARIS, AVOUST 16.
ifen's minds are daily tranquitrzing, fears and
alarms progressively dissipate, and to use an expres.
sion ulten repeated and often abused, hut which now
seems li.ss trivial because more true, the political ho-
rizon is becoming sensibly cleArar. Those sepulchral
cries, those howlings of rage and despair, which have,
in onr gardens and publ►c places, sometimes troubled,
with their feeble but discordant so,inds, the coucert
of general acclamations, are no I,niter heard. Po.
litics, properly so called, that system which inclu irs
the relations of the fore►gn powers with us, and the;r.
dispositions towards us, presents the happiest pros.
?4,cu. 4is ex.pfc* Oa! !he joy witch the