The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-31

St1n', 70 tDc l-cg1SictivS BODY, tie following. mes
sage, relating to the Finances, and i'm the sitting
OF yesterday the project of decree, proposed in
the Message, WAS adopted.
TIE MING TO THE LE0IsLATIvE BoDY.
CENTLEMEN, 81, =.
" We having charged a Committee of our
Council OF State to present to you project OF .
law relative to the Finances ofthis year. f
!" AT the commencement of your present Ses-
son, we expressed on our part strougidcsire to
dopta dchnitivc < permanent system withrespcct
TO The Finances, but since the 18th of November f
fairs hare not been aneli grated, and have been
under the indispensable necessity OF provisorily
shutting our ports. THIS extreme and painful
measure ought to ensure to us compensation, to
which we have so much title and affords an ire
ffassblc proof ofthe sincerity & consistency of ctr
efforts in the common cause. Thus must
postpone all idea OF 4 defaitive and permanent
system until maritime peace, what alone it viii
he possible to reduce our expenditure u the u
mountos our revinue."
II then goes on 20 state that the expenditure
for 1907 had been 78,000,0o forms, and the re-
venues only $1,000, 900, leaving deficit, of B,
COS. 900, exclusive of previous arrears. To
meet these a loan OF 40, 100000, had been negoc-
atct, which produced sc, G20, G3G the 1900,
QUO, after providing for the deficit, was applied
to the payment OF arrears. the estimate ofex-
pend,ture for 1903 is 74000,000, whilst the re-
venue is not estimated to produce more than SO,
900 OOO
1t is said in this part of the message ; &c We
cannot dispense with maintaining in good state
the sGuadrons OF the Texcl and the Mouse. We
announce with pleasure to the Legislative Body,
that as the price of Que efforts, France has ex-
pressty engaged to procure the restoratioa of opr
colonies, and particularly those OF Guiana"
To meet the deficit ofthe present year, sort
ottorced assessment isproposed, which is adopted
oY the Legislative Body, by which these paying
1t are TO become creditors of the state to the n
mount required. That is resortcd TO instead OF
. loan.
April Il.
variety of opinions have been advanced res
necting the destination of the Rochcfort squa-
orop, the last accounts report them to have been
seen IN lat. 81, N. long. 90 w. steering N. N
w. course.
Yesterday some letters dated the 18th uit. were
received from Holland. which state that the price
OF coffee, and other articles of colonial produce
continued 70 rise. In Germany similar scarcity
prevails, and letters from Hamburger, dated the
18th OF March, state, that coffee mad risen to IS
pound
! Accounts from Frankfort state, that a courier
had passed throual, that town, IN his way Ia Pa
ris, with intelligence that the Turks had refused
to renew the arinistiCe concluded with the Rus
SANS, and that hostilities were expected to re-
commence between them immediately. We dc
not place much confidence in this report, though
some hints have already appeared in the French
papers OF a supposed intention in the Porte to
negotiate with our government.
4 lie Gazette of Tuesday contains the official
details respecting the loss ofthe forts OF Rego and
Scyia, on the coast Of Calabria. The evacuation
OF the latter was effected in the face ofthe enc.
! Inys line, which was drawn up immediately be
| low the castle, with the loss of very few men,
| Our Sun-boatS did considerable execution, and il
was SAID the French lest or this occasion seye
raj hundred men