Star.
London, England, 1811-07-29 00:00:00

4MEAICA

[FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLICIENCER.]
gc We cannot let this opportunity escape of noticing
the eoafusion of ideas which exist on the subject of
the revocation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees. For
any thing we yet know, the Emperor of France has
complied with his engagement to repeal his decrees
of Berlin and Milan, so• far as they respect the Uni-
ted States. When we intimate this, we are asked by
friends and foes, does he not confiscate our vessels
with colonial produce, &c. ? This we freely admit
he has done, in a most ♦exatious and unprincipled
manner ; but still he has complied with the letter of
our law, so as not only to have justified the Execu-
tive of the 13• sited States in issuing the proclamation
which has interdicted the importation of British
goods ; but, as far as the Berlin and Milan Decrees
are involved, so as to warrant the present state of our
commercial regulations. The law of May last, 1510,
was imperative, and admitted but of one construc-
tion ; its injunctions were rigorously and promptly
executed. But it is said the Berlin and Milan De-
crees are not annulled. Neither are they ; we reply
so far as we know, except as relates to the United
States, which was all required by our law at the
hands of France, in order to entitle her to the exclu-
sive privileges she now enjoys in our ports. Moreover,
she has done all that was necessary for her to do to
enable us to demand of Great Britain, on her own
principles and admissions, the revocation of her edicts
of a like character.

PARIS, fULT it.
The Legislative Body will close its Sittings on the
28th instant. We are assured that their Impe:ial.
Majesties will, in the course of August, leave the ca-
pital for a short time, during which they will visit
the prircipal ports on the coast. U. Demackeau,
the commander of the French ship l'Abeille, has been
appointed a Member of the Legion of Honour, in
consequence of the gallant engagement which he
maintained with the English brig the Alacrity, which
i ship he captured.

FRENCH FINANCre.
RZFOILT OF M. REGNAUD DE ST. JUAN D9ANOELBY, P 614.
SLNTED TO Lila IMPERIAL MAJESTY :
SIRE,—I present to your Imperial Majesty, the
accounts of the Administration of the Finances is
1809, and in 1810.
•' It results from these accounts, that the service,
of 1806, 7,8, and 9, have been paid, or that there
are sufficient funds to discharge all their expences.
44 The service of 1810 is finished. The Ministers
have presented, each for his own department, a state-
ment of the actual expences. These expences are con-
siderable, and the war of the Peninsula is, in part.
the cause thereof: nevertheless, the state of the Fi-
nances is such, that no part of the reserve-fund will
be necessary to complete the discharge of that service;._
but we are still too near 1610, for me to think myself
justified in proposing to your Majesty to appropriate
that reserve-fund to the expences of 1811: it may
happen that the result of the definitive liquidations
may somewhat exceed the latest calculation: presented
by the Ministers and I therefore think it proper to
postpone this proposal till next year.
g, The expences of 1811 are more considerable stilt
than those of 1810. The increase results, in part.
from the extraordinary armaments which your Ma.
jesty ordered during the first quarter of this year :
nevertheless, the total of the resources of 1811, after
having provided fur the extraordinary expences of the
first quarter, and satisfied all the demands of the Mi.
Misters, formed upon the expenditure of the first six
months, leaves still a reserve fund of 22 millions. I
am, however, induced to think, that this fund will
be necessary to pay all the expences of the current
service.
Thus, all the years previous to 1811 are com-
pletely rrovided for, and the resources of the current
year amount to more than 950 millions of real money.
which place the Treasury in a state to meet every
demand.
4‘ I am not afraid to say it—history does not pre.
sent a period when the finances of a great empire were
in so prosperous a state; it cannot be equalled but in
a country whose wealth is founded on the fertility of
its soil, and on the great number of its inhabitants.
In such a country there is no uncertainty as to the
produce of the public revenue, since contributions are
assessed in suitable proportions between the land-
holders and the consumers. The payment of taxes
on property, and of duties on comm glides, is equally
secured by the constant produce of the land, and by
the habitual wants of an immense population. Your
Majesty's treasury is, in consequence, always plenti-
fully supplied ; it pays to the day all demands upon
it ; nor does it require the assistance of intermediary
credit to facilitate the receipts. The bills accepted
I (in advance) by the receiver of contributions, which
COPENHAGEN, JULY 6, at the beginning of my Ministry were so low as four
The Consul General of Russia, at Christiansand, per cent. discount per month, are not even to be seen
in Norway, has published an advertisement, notifying now in she money-market, and monied people would
to all the merchants, that in cod. .rmity to measures be gl.iJ to discount them at the rate ocfour per cent.
rezently adopted in Russia, no vessel coming from a-rar; but the Treasury receives directly the amount
Norway will be henceforward admitted into a Rus- I of those bills in proportion as they become due ; and'
sian port, without being furnished with a certificate 1 its leading system is now to receive and to ply every
from the Consul General of that Einpire. We con- where, at the least possible expense, and with the
tinue to experience an extraordinary heat, and even least possible carriage of coin. In so vast an empire,
some storms, which, however, only refresh the sultry I this is in itsAf a grand and an important task to
air for some moments. For some days the thermo- I fulfil.

it The municipal regulations of France as to Corn-
merce in her ports, her seizure of our vessels, and the,
subsequent retention of them, however offensive, and
justly so, to us, have not the most distant connection
with the Berlin and Milan Decrees, which involved
merely the abstract principle of blockade by declara-
tions on paper, of which we had so great cause to com- '
plain, as one of the great community of nations ; and
particularly as being the only neutral, we were the
exclusive sufferers by it. Each of the great bellige-
rents solemnly declared, that its edicts of this descrip-1
tion were dependent on those of the other fur their
existence. With the sole view of inducing one or
the other to recede, of testing the verity of their
professions, and thus removing the key-stone of the j
whole fabric of paper blockade, Congress passed the
law of May 1, 1810. France avai:ed herself of it, to
the best of our knowledge, complied with the letter :
of our law ' • Great Britain, by refusing to follow the
example, has not only wilfully caused the exclusion
of her productions frogs our ports, but has conclu-
sively demonstrated the fallacy of the pretences on
which alone she vindicated her violation of neutral
right. This is a true statement of the case, which
neither argument nor sophistry can envitlid:Re.
" Whatever reasonable ground of dissatisfaction
we may have ft the unfriendly conduct France mani-
fests towards us in her own ports, she has a right to
do as she pleases there; her conduct in that regard
involves no innovation on national law; it conccrrs
us alone. It will rest with the National Legislaure
to decide what measure it will be the policy of the
United States to mete to her in return."

FRENCH PAPERS.

meter in the shade has risen to nearly 27 dezrees (92
of Fahrenheit's scale.)
JULY 13.—His Majesty set out on the 11th to
review the troops in the northern part of the li,land of
Zealand ; after the manoeuvres, and having seen the
fleet stationed in the Sound go through some evilu-
tions, his Majesty returned to the Castle of I:•e,!e-
-ricksberg. We are assured that in a few days he in-
tends making a tour to the western part of the island.
st.Eswio, JULY in.
Count Gottorp has quitted England, and has ar-
rived some days since a Tonningen. A guard has
been placid over him. It is reported that the Count's
journey is, unconnected with political subjects, and
that his sole motive ',vas a wish to rejoin Ms family
in Suabia.

" Should your Majesty turn your attention to agri,
culture, that source of all wealth, you will find it is
the most nourishing state ; and interior commerce
has all the activity which it can be supposed to acquire
from the multifarious wants of a population consist*
ing of forty millions of souls.
" It is thus that the reveaues of the State have bees
gradually increasing, and have been kept up in such
a way as to allow your Majesty to c:ery on at the
same time the military operations necessary for the
consolidation of the empire, and the works of utility
and of ornament which are now in progression every
where, both in the interior of the empire and in the
sea-ports. In the year 1808, about 100 millions were
expended for the ordinary repair cf roAs ; fee- the
making of new ones ; for the construction tf new
bridges; for the necessary repairs of old ones; Jur
• draining ; for navigation ; for canals ; for bringing
the waters of the Ourcq to Paris ; for works of utility
and of ornament in the departments, and in the capita
tal ; for land and sea fortifications ; for ports, &c.
I " One hundred and tea millions have been laid
out on works of the same nature in the year 1809;
one hundred and thirty-eight millions in 1810 ; and
they will require one hundred and fifty-five millions
for 1811.
« This makes on the whole a sum of upwards of
five hundred millions appropriated, in the course of
four years, to works, tke greater part of which were
not actually wanting ; but this arises from that pro,
vident spirit which forms one of the principal charac.
teristics of your Majesty's Government. Tile good
state of your finances, which have been constantly
improving during the whole of the war, as is proved
by the accounts I now present to your Majesty, has
constantly favoured the execution of these works. It
will be seen by these ac.. mints, that the receipts have
been seven hundred and seventy-two millions for the
year 1808 ; seven hundred and eighty-six millions for
the year 1809; above seven hundred and ninety-five
millions for the year 1810 ; and that they will not
fall short of nine hundred and fifty-four millions for
the year 1811, by means of the various annexaions
of territory which have taken place since last year."
The Minister then proceeds to state, that this state
of things will enable Bonaparte to carry into execu-
tion a measure whiell had been intended ten years
ago, but had been always delayed from want of fa-
vourable opportunities--that of a general recoinage
ordered by a law of 1796; the object of this measure
is to do away altogether the fictitious account-money
called the Genre tournoir, and to substitute in its stead
a coin of the real and fixed value of a franc, of a eerie
tam weight and fineness, which is to form the unit of
the whole system et coinage. This operation, the
Minister °germs, will cost the Treasury alms five

LONDON.

10- We are desired to si:te that the Sale of the American
schooner ANN, and:the brig ROSE BLOOM, with brandy,
wine, silk, and haberdashery Goods, advertised to be sold at
the London Tavern, Foxhole-street, Plymouth, on the 6th
Inst. is POSTPONKI) to Friday the 9th A.:gust.