Star.
London, England, 1804-02-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEL If.

The Meaner of the 9th contains the folloiring
article ma the merest rife in the funds
The fiends were yelierday done at 57 frat►ks. and
this rife is the natural confequence of the knowledge
which the public have already obtained relative t 9
the Badger. or the Rate of the finances for the re-
fine year..by the communication of Come Members
of
the TribQnaee.
The Englifis funds were, according to the laR
accounts, at 55, Co that ours begin to have manifealy
the advantage, while the rife on our fide, and the fall
of the BEIM. will probably continue to iacreafe.—
Bat there is am this difference between them. that
the French are valued againa bard money, and the
line& againa paper money, which in the courfe of
exchange againa pleases, according to the lea ope-
ration of the Englilh Government, mutt lofe to per
cent. Co that the Englilh funds in money cannot be
eßimated higher than 45 per cent•
Befides the beginning of this diminution in va.
lute, which the Englith Government has been obliged
to acknowledge, has been of a kind of advantage
in appearance.; facilitating the circulation of public
clefts; and st is even podible that it may, in
sp-
pursue. be of Rill greater advantage. There is
alio this benefit, that it renders the realizing of the
funds more difficult. on account of the lois that mull
be incurred ; and if, notwithflanding this great fall
and ffiferedit, the cootie of exchange with the Conti•
neat Rill maintains itfelf, it is becaufe England
makes very great facrifices by felling the commodi-
ties of which her warehoufes are full. at extremely

low prices.
A Frenchman who has efcaped from St. Domingo
to the Iffavannah, writes from thence, under date of '
the ad of December, as fnllows The number
of our countrymen, who arrived in this ifland (of
Cuba), efcaping the fury of the Blacks of St. Do-
mingo, amounted, two months ago, to ta,ooo. The
coolnefs with which we were received increales our
fufferings ; for the holpitality we enjoy is confined to
the ufe of air and water. One would fuppofe all
hearts to be hardened by the misfortunes of the left
twelve years, fence thole Frenchmen who have been
able to Cave any thing, keep tilde purfes dole, for'
fear of being in Want themfehres. The Spaniards
behave very firangely to us ; and many, who have
no means of friblittence, think of battening to Gua-
deloupe and Martinique, but the greater number
will go to the Continent, to fettle in-Louifiana. The
paniards have been very It, iEt in admitting but
few of thofe negrnes who remained faithful to their
mailers, left they fhould bring along with them that
fpirit of independence, rebellion, and murder, pre.
wailing in St. Domingo."
A letter from Antwerp, dated Feb. 13, rays—
w Some days ago two French Commitrariek arrived
here on a fpecial million, proceeded beyond the fron-
tiers, (accompanied by a number of Cullom Houle
Officers, and 300 gent d'armes), and on the Baravian
territory feized a confiderable quantity of Britilh
znerchandire, which had been deNfired there. The
whole of there goods. Sp waggon loads, were brought
into tl.is city t.n Thurfday, under a Ikon dux; and

their value, in which fevetal merchants in this city!
have a (lake, is computed at two DiMOM."
HAGUE, FCs. is.—Litters from Paris, of the Bth
ins. Rate, that inftead of General Mat wort., who
has fet out for Holland, General Somali is appoint-
ed Infpe&or General of the Artillery.
The unufual rife in the funds, on the day prior to
this date, was in a great routine occafioned, it is
Paid, by reports of ncgociations for peace ; but thofe
who have the beg opportunities of being well infor-
med, gave little attention to there reports.
Fee. 4.—As Coon as the proceedings of General
Molnar. at Flufhing, by order of his Government,
had come to the knowledge of our Direaory, a cou-
rier was feat off to Paris with difpatches, in order, if
poffible, to prevent thefe violent meafures. Appli-
cation was at the fame time made to the French Am-
. bafador Ds Ssisonvii.xx, and to General 'Pierce,
to ful*nd the final execution of the order till an an-
fwer thou be reeeived from the French Government.