Star.
London, England, 1818-03-28 00:00:00

STATE LOTTERY.

Thursday was the Second Day of Drawing of the
State Lottery, and the following capitals (all drawn
that day), were sold by BB
No. 4,706 - a Prise of
In 16 S:xterr.ths;

,eso,ooo

N 0.7,328, Pint Bank, entitled to Four T'ipes of Port Wine,
odd in one Quarter, three Eighths, and six Sixteenths.

I,ois
11,119
15,340
0,612
11„191
12,369
35.353

£l,OOO 5,338
1,000 9,305
400 10,850
300 12,3:23
soe 15,734
300 16034: -
400 &c. &c.

400
- :200
200
COO
200
900

Sus clan told (drawn on the Ant day of the present Lottery) :
N 0.6,963, That Blank, entitled to the Brat Four ripce Pion
Wine, said in two Quarters, two Eighths, and four &au:emit!.

1! ;Pt 1
54+11
t t MO
::,/$63
11 ;168

5,107

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- - WO
- - ROO
- - zoo
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a Prix of 5,0001.
£l,OOO I 5,002
500 5,063
500 5,875
400 11,605
400 8,412
&c. &c.

The Capitals arc divided into so many Shares, and gone to
such an immense number of places, that they are too numerous
to specify particulars ; but after the Lunt ry is over, T. limn will
stnte wh.re they bave been sold, and he hopes to add the remain-
in& Two of 30,0001. awl other CapitaLi, to his already splendid list.
The fortunate holders tray receive their money on demand on
application to Hines Offices, 4, Corolla!, or 9, Charing-cross ;
tu..l ti-we rer.nas entitled to the Wine may order it of any nice-
&Ott the: think proper, and T. Mut will immediately discharge
to: the same.
'Pie last day will be Thursday, the Wh of rel; when the
116 i. Prizes ni 70;W/. and :s5 other C4iPitais, wit...h yet remain
%netts mud bf! dniv%yo,

FEEVCH PAPERS.

SITTING OF THE Ekl MARCH.
THE BUDGET. •

M. Beuotrov, the Second Reporter of the Com-
mittee of Finance for the Ways and Means, made
his Report this day :
lie commenced by informing the Chamber, that
the lapeuditurc of the current year would not re less
than that of the past. The cause of-this he ascribed
to Chefintlyouiable season For agriculture and cum•
coerce, and to those charges which a war of nearly
thirty years had entailed upon the country. He
trusted, however, that the generous patrintiNm of
Frenchmen, which had already endured so much for
their country's sake, would consent to make a further
sacrifice, particularly when they might look forward
to a speedy relief frcim many of their present &Ili-
culties. With that view, therefore, he should propose
to them the means by which the deficiencies in the
Revenue of the present year were to be made up.—
The whole of the expenditure, as had been already
sbewn, was—for the National Debt and Sinking
Fund, 189,000,000 francs ; for the Ordinary Service,
492,040,000 fr anes ; for Extraordinaries, 311,468,000
Ifrancs—Total, 992,508,000 francs. To meet this
Expenditure there existed a revenue from contribu-
tions on Land, on Lotteries, and on various articles
of consumption, &c. &c. 753,498,000 francs. There
was therefore a deficit to be provided for, exceeding
221,000,000 francs, which was to be raised by loans.
The Reporter then went through various iteLis of the
Expenditure and the probable amount of particular
Taxes. He observe;, that by some economical re-
ductions propowil by the Commission, there would
be a saving of nearly 19,000,000 francs. Ile next
called the attention of the Chamber to the conditions
of the Loan which had been taken last year. This,
he observed, was secured by three treaties. The first
dad second of these were made with Messrs. Baring
and Hope, and the third with Messrs. Hope, Baring,
and Perregaux Laffitte. By the first two Loans the
Contractors had realized a profit of 16i per cent.
and by the third Loan the profit was enormous.—
[Considerable agitation in the Chamber.]—These
advantages, continued M. Beugnot, were the natural
results of great capital and the price of the risks in-
curred by the Contractors. He next came to the
objections made against such large profits, which, he
observed, were all met by that greatest of all laws,
the law of necessity. It was at first difficult to pro-
cure subscribers to the Loan in France, but after-
wards persons who had witnessed and were surprised
at the speculations of foreigners, were satisfied to
purchase at sixty francs that for which six months
before they had refused fi:ty but he added, that
considering the whole of the risks and trouble which
the original lenders were put to, to makeood their
treaty, the profits were not more than 9i per cent.
, which could not, under all the circumstances, be
considered exorbitant, nor could the cost of the loan
be deemed as very heavy on France, when the results
of it were taken into consideration. Trade was as-

sisted by it; circulation of money was quickened,
and the payments of the Government were made
with a punctuality beyond all former precedent By
the treaties for the Loan in the last year 9,999,000
of francs, of Rentes, were sold for the first Loan ;-
8,000,000 for the second ; and 9,000,000 for the
third. In the present year Ministers wanted a credit
of 16,000,000 of Rentes to make good the deficit of
the Revenue.

" Henceforth," continued the Reporter," there will
be a competition among the contractors. The French
capitalists, encouraged by the past, will no longer
have occasion for the assistance of foreigners. I his
resort to our market from thefunds of different na-
tions, will have the most beneficial effects. But at
whatever rate of interest the loan is made it shews
our distress, it accuses the present and threatens the
future. Thus your Commission has sought with the
most watchful anxiety, the means of ascertaining the
limits of such great and deplorable sacrifices.
" Your Commission, perfectly persuaded that there
is no longer credit, nor, perhaps, existence in France,
but by an alleviation of the burthen which depresses
her, has been anxious at length to ascertain the pe-
riud of our financial emancipation, as inseparable
from our political liberation. It wished to have given
you, above all, some positive information with re-
spect to the individual demands of foreigners, de-
mands whose vagueness and uncertainty still fetter
our most useful works, arrest the rising wing of
credit, and impress on peace itself the character of
hostility. Your Commission have applied to the Mi-
nisters of the King, in whom they discovered hearts
entirely French ; but they have not been able com-
pletely to satisfy us.
4. According to the very terms of the treaty of No-
vember the 20th, the enfranchisement of our tewi-
toty can only be in consequence of a deliberation
which the Allied Sovereigns have reserved to them-
selves the right of holding on the expiration of the
first years of .occueation. But can this result be
iloubtful? These Sovereigns will enoble policy in
rendering it subordinate to justice.
" The occupation of our territory could not exceed,
two years, unless France were a prey to convulsions
which endangered Europe. France is calm ; she
wishes peace ; she wishes it as ardently as she waged
war. Since the treaty of the 20th of November, she,
has passed through all the miseries which rature -tr.l
politics could accumulate on her; she has sust,,haed
them with an heroic patience; let us say more—with
magnanimity.
" The foreigner who dwells amongst its is asto-
nished at finding none of those factions which act
only in the Journals of his own country, or exist
but in the ill-regulated brains of some new orators.—
lie beholds a Government conducted with strength
and independence; a King adored as a father, and
respected as a sage; Princes in whom his Royal vir-
tues are re-produced ; a nation whose noble charac-
ter has only been purified by the crucible of adver-
sity, too haughty ever to be subjugated, but too wise
to disturb the peace of the world. _

" The Sovereigns must have been struck at the fide-
lity with which the treaty of the 20th of November
has been fulfilled, and the severity of which was so
new to France ; they will behold France such as ske
actually is. It cannot be doubted but they will ac-
knowledge that, by her noble attitude in advercity,
she has deserved well of Europe and of hervif.--
, (Erpre.csions qrapprobatiote.)
" There rrmaii.s to us, Gentlemen, a last motiYe
,of conviction, but it is a painful one; it is this, that

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' Prance has now arrived at a detrihe of exhanstion, ie •
which it would be impossible tin her clod: longer to
support the hurthens that have pressed he:- down
during the last three years. It becomes our duty to
declare this to you, since the inquiry in which we
have been engaged for three months past has forced
upon us an intimate persuasion of its mall. Here is
the termination of our sacrifices, because here is the
termination of our means. We may, thervforc, now i
calculate on the retreat of the foreign troops at the
expiration of the present year.
" Fixing the amount of the claims of strangers on
France is at present the subject of a negociation.-
IThere is room to hope that you will know the result'
before the er.d of the Session, and that it will put an
er.d to those exaggerations which have bad so un-
pleasant an ilfhience on our credit. But it is neces-
sary to supply the demand for the present service,
without which all, even hope would be compromised."l
M. BEIX:NOT closed his Report in the following
words:--‘• I conclude by some considei.izions on a II
proposition which has been made, and which says,
that the financial year is not to commence till the Ist
of July. This epoch coinciding better with that
which custom has fixed for the convocation of the
Chambers, enables you to vote the Budgets before
the opening of the period fur which they are to serve.
Meeting in November, you will have until the month
of February to deliberate on the Law of Finances,
which ought for a considerable time to be the subject
of a lengthened examination.
" Supposing that the law was passed in the month
of March, the three following months would be no
more than sufficient for the holding of Councils of
Arrondissements and Departments. In fine, the
month of .luly, become the first month of the finan-
cial year, will pass away in announcements and other
preparatory formalities, which will give the inhabi-
tants of the country time to attend to the harvest.—
The collection of taxes will commence in the month '
of August ; that is to say, precisely when the new
crop will have given plenty and ease to all classes of
Society. But for this purpose it would be necessary
for the first time, to regulate the Budget 18 months
in advance, and that is impossible under existing
circumstances, as the result of our negociations has
not yet informed us what will be our expenses for
the first six months of the next year, with respect
to foreigners. An. adjournment is, therefore, in-
dispensable.
" Such, Gentlemen, is the result of a labour which
has been for a long time expected, but the delay will
perhaps appear excusable, when you are informed
that your Committee have scrutinised all the details
of the public revenue and expenditure. Besides,
that to make this examination, was the right as well
as the duty of those in whom you confided, we
thought, that if ever there was a year when such
duty was rigorous, it is that when a sum of 975 mil-
lions is demanded of a nation ready to sink under the
' weight of its expenses. The approaching cessation
of the most burthensome charges will be, we must
Ilrepeat, the best, perhaps the only means of rectify-
ing the contributions which you are about to impose,
and of supporting the credit of which you stand in
need. The King has allowed us to hope that the
charges will fall equally upon all, that our country
will resume among nations that rank and character
due to French valour, and to the noble position
which she maintained in adversity. The welkin have
not forgotten those word; of their King, they conede
lin them. Let us also hope that the Sovereigns, allied for
' the peace of the world, will hear this wish of French-
men, which resounds equally from the palace and
the cottage, in which all conditions and opinions are
united, and which proves by its energetic unanimity,
that though it has been found possible to lead astray
a great nation into the road of misfortune, it is im-
possible to deprive her of a just sense of her dignity
and strength."
The discussion on the law of finance was appointed
to commence on Monday next (the 30th March.)

Further eitrtacts :
PARIS, MARCH 24.

We learn from the Banks of the Rhine, that pre-
parations are making at Dusseldorff for the reception
of thz Allied Sovereigns.
It is undei stood that Lord Castlereagh, the Duke
de Richelieu, and the Duke of Wellington, will pro-
ceed to Dusseldorff about the same period.
The day before yesterday being Easter Sunday,
the King, accompanied by the Princes and Princesses
of his family, the Prince of Conde, and the Spanish
and Neapolitan Ambassadors, repaired to the Chapel
of the Palace to hear Mass. On his return his Ma.
jesty appeared surrounded by the Princes and Prin-
cesses, shelved himself at the balcony of the Glass
Gallery, and was saluted by the most lively accla-
mations. After having entered into his apartments,'
his Majesty held a Levee, which was attended by the
Ministers, the Marshals, the Cardinals, the Peers of
' France, the Deputies, and military officers of all ranks.
Yesterday his Majesty transacted business with the
Minister of Finance.

Subscriptions have been opened in several quarter;
of Paris for the relief of the sufferers by the burning
of the Odeon. The list of the subscribers will be
published. All the Theatres are about to give extra-
ordinary representations for the relief of the sufferers
A Journal says that the concierge of the Odeon has
been amested. The action of a young market poser,
Who, at the moment when the tire of the Odeon raged
with the greatest violence, saved, at the hazard of
his own life, a woman and her daughter, has been
reccmpensed with a bounty truly Royal, by a Prince
whose privy-purse is the patrimony of all those who
deserve assistance, encouragement, or recompense.