The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-12 00:00:00

Fd--ENCH LOAN..

Extract of a letter received this morning from
Paris, July 10, 7 o'clock, p m.
"Today the French loan of 23,114,516 of relieve has
been adjudged to the house of Messrs. de Rothschild Bro.
then and Co. Four o'clock was the hour appointed by

the official announcement of the Minister of Finance for
receiving the tenders of soch companies ■s intended to
bid for this lola. The public rooms of the Minister of
Finance in his hotel, in Rue Name Petite Champs, were
thrown open to the public about two. By three a consi-
derable number of persons had collected. At four the
suit of public rooms were nearly filled, and the apart-
ment, where a kind of of bureau was placed for .the Con-
tractors and the Ministers, was crowded to excess. One
would have supposed that the Stock Exchange had ad-
j..urned from jobbing in the funds to the house of the
Minister of Finance, to witness the creation of additional
means of speculation. At a few minutes past four, a bus-
tle in the crowd announced the entrance of the Ministers.
Not ottly the the Ministers of Finance and War attended,
ut the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of
Marine. M. de Villele declared the sitting opened, and
Ordered the Royal decree to be recd, which au-
Viorised the sale of the twenty-three millions of
realm This decree was read by the Minister M.
de Villele's secretary. After this the Minister's regula-
tion, fixing the conditions of bidding, &c., was likewise
read. M. de Villele then formally deposited on the bo-
nen the scaled paper eontainining the mininsurn for
which be would allow the tearer to be adjudged. These
formalities being completed, the representatives of the
different companies who ititeuded to bid deposited their
tenders.

" The lists were four. and delivered in the following
order lst, Messrs. Imsfitte and Co.; 2J, Messrs. Orefful:
be, Sartores and Co. ;341, Messrs. de Rothschild Bro-

thus and 4th, Cesar de f,apinoote and Co. After they
had all been deposited and numbered, M. de Villele be-
gin by OpeAing 111. Lafi.tioe, which was numbered first.
Atl. Witte, who had combined with Ardouin and se►eral'
others of the liberal bankers, made a tender of 87f. 75e.
for every hundred of renter; offering, of cou'rse, to fulfil
al: the stipulations required by the Minister of Finance's
official regulations. This otter excited a little movement
in the assembly, as the renter, to-day, had left off in the
cenlise, at six o'clock, at 20 francs 25 cents. •M. Grefful-
he and Co.'s tender was then opened, and read. It con-
tained exactly the rime offer of 871. 75c. M . de
Rothschild and Brothers' tender was the third in the
orrice of presentation, and the third read. It excited not
a little movement in the meeting by its discrepancy with
the two former. It offered to the Minister for his renter
KR 55r., !icing nearly two per cent, above them. The
fourth and the last test was that of M. de Lapanouse. It
was the same as that of M. La6tte and M. Oreffullie. The
Minister, after recapitulating the contents of the four
sealed papers, announced that he adjudged the loan to
Messrs. de Rothschild Brothers, their tender exceeding
his sealed. minimum, which of course was not opened.
The Minister has since announced that his minimum was
bBf. b'Oc. Though the bidding of Messrs. de Rothschild
is much higher than the rest, it was still on 'Change
considered so good a bargain, that their certificates were
sold at one and a half premium. The three other com-
panies, it wai supposed, from the uniformity of their bid-
ding', had formed a coalition to keep the loan among
French capitalists."