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London, England, 1811-08-17 00:00:00


VIENNA, JULY

For the last fortnight the course
fluctuated from 250 to 9 t 5. This
tion is produced by a variety of
fear, produces a tall in the notes,
are raises by hope; diversity of
imitation, and very frequently
to the same effects. A commercial _ _
importance occasions sudden changes at times, invo-
luntarily, when it sells or buys upon 'Change a con
siderable quantity of paper for its own purposes. All
eyes are turned to this merchant, and the speculators
follow his example. The bank-notes of 500 florins,
which are nt present withdrawing from circulation,
amount, in nominal value, to the sum of 200 millions.
The notes of exchange for replacing them, in confor-
mity to the decree of the 20th of Feb. amount to 40
millions. A great many capitalists at present keep
their cash locked up, and good coin is becoming
scarcer every day : as a proof of which, the rate of
interest has actually risen to 40 per cent. per annum.
KONIGSBERG, JULY 21.
On the 17th, at nine at night, a fire broke out in
a street of the Old Town, and the consternation was
general. By good fortune the wind was lulled and
no one had retired to rest. Assistance was very soon
afforded, though that was not easily done, because
the streets are in this part of the city very confined :
but the buildings were solid and composed of stone.
Only three houses were burned. No account has been
given of the manner in which the fire originated.
SINIGAGLIA, JULY 22.
A considerable quantity of merchandize has ar-
rived for the approaching fair ; the vessels which
brought it did not meet with any of the enemy's
cruizers. Buyers continue to assemble in consider-
able numbers, and we have every reason to expect a
good sale.

BREHAT, JULY 24.
The Turbulent privateer, which sailed yesterday,
has just returned with the Mary-Anne, an English
galliot of 83 tons, which she took by boarding, and
which was armed with four 4-pounders.
ST. GALL (SWITZERLAND), JULY 2s.
Their Majesties, the King and Queen of Bavaria,
in 'returning from the baths of Baden to Munich, are;
at this moment, passing through the Swiss territory.'
On their arrival this day at Schaffhausen, their Ma-
jesties breakfast at the Castle of Lauffen, and will
dine at that of Wolfsberg, belonging to the Baron of
Hogger. They will afterwards proceed to Lindau
through the Cantons of 'rhurgovia and St. Gall.
Mr. Muller Friedberg, Counsellor of State, goes to
Wolfsberg, in order to compliment their Majesties in
the name of our Government.

FRANKFORT, AUGUST 4.
Since the adoption of the last regulations in the
States of the Confederation of the Rhine,, relative to
the verification of Colonial goods and to the suppres-
sion of all certificates delivered in the Prussian ports,
this branch of commerce has been in a state of abso-
lute stagnation. Until the present time, Bavaria;
Franconia, a part of Swabia, Austria, Bohemia, Si.
lesia, and other parts of Germany, had been supplied
with Colonial merchandize through the intermediate
commerce of Saxony ; which commerce encountered
to obstacles, with the exception of coffee, the impor-
tation and distribution of which is prohibited through-
out all Austria. But this intermediate Saxon com-
merce has ceased all at once in consequence of the
Edicts published throughout the whole of the States
of the confederation, according to which no certifi-
cates are to be admitted but such as announce in a
most accurate manner the amount of the duty which
had been paid for each article. As this statement
was never inserted in the certificates of origin with
which the colonial articles were accompanied, nor it
the certificates of transit delivered in the places ail
intermediate commercial transactions, the holders ell
colonial articles in Saxony have felt themselves undo',
the necessity of suspending all their transmission di
such articles. A special commission, dispatched from
Dresden, has proceeded to a very severe examination'(
of all the certificates ; the result of which examina-
tion was a positive discovery that almost the whole
of the certificates were irregulai, and consequently,j
that a new duty of 41i per cent. was imposed upon
all articles warehoused in this city. The applications
of claimants have had no success. The pessesson,
of colonial merchandize in this city have been °Wigs*
to pay a sum of 214,000 for all the goods of that
description which have been imported into Saxony,
upon the security of Prussian certificates. The only
indulgence they have had, is a little time afforded
them by the Government of Saxony for the payment
of this sum.
Accounts from Berlin state, that the education
of his Highness the Prince Royal being completed,
this Prince is about to travel with Mr. Dellrue, who
was his preceptor.
Since the intelligence has been received from Vi-I
enna, officially, of the great fire at Smyrna, and of the
destruction of a vast number of cotton stores there,
the price of that article has risen considerably.
AUGSBURGH, AUGUST a.
We have had .an Italian summer: the heat over-
powers us, and still continues without intermission.
Reaumar's thermometer was yesterday, about noon,
at 35 degrees in the sun, and 28 in the shade. The
grass on the hills has been parched up, a circumstance
which has caused considerable loss, and greatly en-
hanced the price of forage.
The accounts from Inspruck state, that the heat
has been for some weeks past insupportable in the
vallies of the Tyrol, and that the drought, which is
the consequence, has the most unfavourable effect
upon the productions of the earth. A forest within
three leagues of Inspruck has been for four days on
tire, without a possibility of extinguishing thellames.
NAPLES, JULY so.
Whilst many agricultural Societies. propose pre-
miums for the best mode of delivering our plains from
the locusts that infest them, the inhabitants of Canosa
have made a practical experiment for that purpose,
which has been crowned with the most complete suc-
cess. They assembled in great numbers, for the pur-
pose of destroying the eggs of that insect in the first
instance, and afterwards of destroying the insect it-
self. Within a few days they destroyed and cast into
the Ofanto 80,000 bags of locusts eggs.
MUNICH, JULY SI.
The King and Queen of Bavaria, after leaving
134de0, went to Scbaufflauseas to view the fall of

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PARIS, AUGUST S.
Colonel Lejeune and the Chevalier Stoflet, having
escaped from an English prison, have just reached
France. They were in the centre of England, but
reached Plymouth without being discrvered, Acre
they embarked, and arrived at Boulogne.„
We shall at last have positive accounts.wilh regard
to the fate of the celebrated Peyrouse. It appears
certain that 12 seamen, the unfortunate remains of
his crew, have been found by an English ship in a
desert island of the South Sea, near which the Astro-
labe was wrecked. We are even assured that these
men are arrived in France, and we may expect to re-
ceive from them certain information with regard to
the fate of their companions.
OF TIIE SANK OS ENOLAUD.
Since none of the reasons derived from the princi-
ples of justice, prudence, or humanity, have been
able to induce the English Government to depart from
its anti-social system—that system which give.: it as
many enemies as there are true citizens in the differ-
ent States of Europe—we may be permitted to con-
template with some interest, the crisis in which that
Bank, upon which rest the pow. aakseterity of the
nation, is placed.
When speaking of the affairs of the Bank, we are
not involved in those political reveries, amidst which
a people already blinded by its passions may be amu-
sed and deceived with impunity—here every thing is
certain. If the facts alledged be true—if it be a fact
that £4 sterling in Bank notes are worth only three
guineas, (and unfortunately for the Bank, this is dis-
puted by no one), it must soon submit to acknow-
ledge, that its bankruptcy is almost declared. Doubt-
less, the Ministers and their partisans have good rea-
sons for not all at once avowing their situation ;
doubtless, they have still some precautions to take,
some essential operations to concert, before they give
to the situation to which they have conducted affairs
the only name which befits it.
This course is natural, and not at all surprising—
but that there should be found men of sense and

acuteness, who can shut their eyes to the light of evi-
dence, and seek in miserable palliatives for a cure to
the evil, is what will hardly be believed six months
after the fall of the Bank—that is, very soon.
Why was not this foreseen, will then say the stupid
politicians of Wood-street ? It was to clear I
One is almost tempted to laugh at the grave tone
with which a Noble Lord, in the House of Commons,
endeavoured to shew how much the notes of the Eng-
lish Bank differed from tusignah, to wlich a Member
had the indiscretion to compare them. " How can
you assimilate things so finlike ?" said he gravely.—
" Upon the creation of assignats, their issue was enor-
mous—and it frightfully increased in a year or two.
With us, on the contrary, even in a period of fifteen
years, there has scarcely been an increase of fifteen
millions sterling (360 millions of France) in paper
circulation."
It might be answered, that it is by no means the
quantity issued, but the power of incessantly issuing,
which decides the fall of a paper-money ; but it is
more proper to observe,. that the Noble Lord has
blinked the question.
The point for consideration is not what has hap-
pened to the Bank of London, but what is now hap-
pening to it, and what must naturally ensue. How
is it that a paper, issued in so small quantity, has al-
ready depreciated? The Noble Lord should have
thought of this objection, which he himself indiscreetly
furnishes, and which it is natural to make to tholes
who attribute the fall of assignats only to their enor-
mous issue. They do not see that they take the ef-
fect for the cause ; and instead of saying that the great
issue was the cause of depreciation, they ought to
perceive, from the then existing state of things in
France, that from what is now going forward in Eng-
land, that, in both countries, it was depreciation that
led to issue, whether in assignats or bank-paper. The
comparison, therefore, was not so misplaced as he
wished to persuade the House.
As long as England shared with all Europe the
weight of the struggle against a nation divided and
torn by parties—while enjoying an immense and ex-
clusive commerce, she developed all the sources of
prosperity—is it surpiising that she kept at par the
paper of her bank, and that she enjoyed a credit which
the most insignificant banker obtains as long as his
affairs appear in a prosperous state ? Certainly not;
and it must have lasted till the favouring causes
ceased to operate—till the period when France, unite*
as a whole, resumed her superiority upon the Conti-
nent. But the point is no w for England to cause the,
effect to continue while the cause has ceased—to re.
establish her credit, sinking under the weight of the
very force which supported it. Such is the problem
which the English Ministers have to solve.
Is there any prospect that they will succeed ? •
It is a truth become trite, that paper-money exists!
from the confidence reposed in those who issue it.—•
This confidence is built upon their known resources
and their conduct. If it is ascertained that a banking
firm gains more than it expends, its. paper enjoys a
credit which is in itself an addition to the property
of the bankers. if unforeseen accidents or miscon-
duct augment expences and diminish receipts, their
credit declines, and can only be restored by a
different system of conduct. Such is the state of
the Bank of England. Its credit has declined to
that degree, that the nominal value of its paper is
to its real value as 96 to 75. What has pro-
duced this fall ? An expenditure always increasing,
which must still increase in a frightful progression;
and a diminution of its receipts, which soon, from the
effects of the Continental system, will be more and.
more reduced. What cure is proposed for the evil?
This is the most curious part of the subject. Some
say that it does not exist—others that it is of no con-
sequence—a third party, in the hope,•doubtless, of
resorting to the true remedy, proclaims aloud the
danger. What will be the event ? One of two
things—either the latter will be listened to, or the
noise which they- have made, and their very zeal,
will hasten the evil.
But we do not anticipate evendts ; we wish to pre-
sent facts, not conjectures t the event belongs to fu-
turity, which we do not prebume to penetrate.

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We this morning received Dublin Papers of Wed-
nesday last, but they do not contain any further pro-
ceedings of the Catholics on any information of in..
portance.
An Anholt Mail arrived this morning, by elk!:
we have received intelligence from almost every part
of Europe. We select the following articles, as being
the most interesting among the great variety which
tilt foreign Journals contain :

LEIPZIC, JULY 10.
It was the day before yesterday intimated to all tl.e
merchants of this town, that they will have to pay 40
per cent. upon all the Colonial products which they
have received with Prussian passports, which, it is
said, will produce the sum of 11id,000 crowns. The
intelligence from Silesia is very unsatisfactory to
commerce. The want of money is every where felt,
and occasions a fatal lowness in the price of estates

and the productions of the earth. The Proprietors
every day see, with grief, their revenues diminish,
whilst their expences increase. Notwithstanding the

decree of the King of Pt ussia permitting the exporta.
tion of woollens, this article has experienced a consi.
derable fall. The fair at Breslaw was not a good one,
very little business was transacted in it. We are be.

sides assured that the new municipal organization has
not obtained in that same province the useful end
which the Government promised itself inpublishing it.
VIENNA, JULY te.
Every eye is at present directed to the Hungarian
Diet, which will open on the 25th of August. We
have no doubt but that noble nation will renounce
some prerogatives, contrary to the spirit of the pre-
sent age ; we already know that the lilagnats (the
nobility of the first rank) have resolved to guarantee
the Billets d'Amortissement to a considerable amount.

The noble Hungarian guard, which bad been sup-
pressed, will be reestablished at the epoch of the
opening of the Diet. The regiments which are to
proceed to Presburgh on this occasion have already re•
ceived orders to march.

The Emperor will form a commission to maintain
order at the Exchange, and to vratsh over the opera-
tions carried on there. Five Imperial Councillors
I and two Merchants, are members of this commission.
Jtrtv 13.—They write from Semlin that the Grand
Vizier, not wishing to accede to some of the Russian
pretensions, and having, during the pending nego.
ciations, received all the reinforcements he demanded,

had suddenly put his army in motion, and advanced
in many directions upon the Danube, principally
towards Rudschuck. His head-quarters were, on the
12th June, at Rasgrad.
As soon as the Russian General was informed of
this movement, which was any thing but pacific, he
gave orders to his regiments in cantonments to break
up from, their actual positions, and take the direction
of Rudschuck. The corps of General Count Lan-
ghon was already, in part, arrived there. The Rut-
sian troops pcsted in Lesser Wallachia were occu-
pied in passing the Danube to join a Russian ccrps
of observation posted between Ridden and Nicopolis.
There is also a Russian corps d'arm6 forming near
Silistria. We therefore expect important events, and
the more so, as the news of the prolongation of tlis
armistice between the Russian and Ottoman troops,
is not confirmed.

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purse of esehanp has Lake of Constance: His Majesty arrived in good
this constant &smut- .time this evening at Nymphenburgh ; and her hla- LONDON.
if causes. Sometimes jesty the Queen is also expected. hut at somewhat a -
es, at other times they later hour. Tke Waters of Baden appear to have.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17.
)f opinion, the spirit of produced die most favourable effects upon the health
mere chance give rise of their Misiestioa. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS ISAY AT ONE n•ci.oci.
ercial House of some I per Ct. Coss. for money 6"H—Ditto for ateuzilt 14
. ! PARIS, AUGUST S. It per Cert. Reduced 63—Navy 5 per Ceta 94 if
ban es at times, invo.
Colonel Lejeune and the Chevalier Stoflet, having 4 per Cent.. 79f, I—Bonde Ise. Ica. Ss. rem.-o=mm lii dia
s upon 'Change a con , lick. Bilk (3c1.) Ss. du. co par—Di to (Sid.) Is. Is. prem.
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