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(Seer. 1, 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN AUGUST. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
YHE Government, to sustain the late 
wars, having availed itself of all the 
resources of the people, is at this time 
allowing them to recover their exhaust- 
ed strength, in the hope of rendering 
it available whenever any real, imaginary, 
or plausible cause exists for waging new 
wars. Hence the pacific and temporiz- 
ing character of our diplomacy, and 
hence the improving condition of the 
nation. Nor ought the moral lesson to 
be lost sight of—for it: would appear 
from the premises, that the greatest ene- 
mies of a nation are those who plunge 
it into war's ; and the greatest friends, 
those who in contempt of thefalse glory’ 
of war, maintain with other countries 
the beneficial relations of peace. 
A fleet having been fitted out against 
Algiers, under the command of Ad- 
miral Sir Harry Neale, hostilities were 
commenced in so spirited a manner, 
that the Algerine Government opened 
‘a negociation and conceded the points 
of the last treaty, about which it had 
equivocated. 
Foreign Office, Aug. 17, 1824. 
The Right Hopourable George Canning, 
one of his Majesty’s Principal Secretaries 
_of State, has this day notified, by the com- 
mand of. His Majesty, to the Ministers of 
Foreign Powers resident at this Court, that, 
in. consequence of the satisfactory issue of 
the aegociation between the Commander of 
His' Majesty’s Naval Forces off Algiers, and 
the Government of that Regency, the block- 
ade of that port has been discontinued. 
By the Report of a Committee of the 
Touse of Commons, it appears that the 
total sums levied in the year 1822-3, in- 
cluding county rates, and other charges 
not appertaining to the poor, exhibit a 
declension, as compared with 1821-2, 
of £863,2 O87 ; and, as compared with 
1817-18, the year of highest amount, 
‘ie declension of £2,429 287. As one 
cause of the reduction, it is named 
that in 1822-3, the average price of 
;wheat was 41s. 11d. per qr.; in 1821-2 
it was 53s. Sussex still appears as the 
county in which the expenditure on the 
poor bears the highest proportion to the 
number of the people; and Lancaster 
appears at the other extremity of the 
scale. The Committee make the fol- 
lowing abstract from the returns, which 
specify the particular species of property 
on which the poor-rates were levied : 
Lands occupied for Agricultural 
purpose...... “ + £4,602,252 
Dwelling-houses ‘and. all other re 
inhabited buildings . aepave) Lp pOgsoaD 
Mills, and factories, warehouses, 
and tand occupied for trade., £247,389 
Manorial profits, fines, quarries, 
&e., and including all other 
articles locally accessible, not 
comprized in the above heads 90,908 
’ PRANCE. 
The Session of the French Chambers 
is closed. The most important event 
by which it has been distinguished, is 
the substitution of Septennial Elections 
for the system of renewal by fifths. 
The failure of the attempt to relinquish 
the Five per cents. has produced none 
of the consequences which were at first 
expected to result from it. The Moni- 
teur contains, in its official part, the pro- 
clamation of the law fixing the budget 
for 1825. The expenses of the conso- 
lidated debt and the sinking fund are 
fixed at 237,685,785 francs ; the general 
expenses of the service, at 691,847,395 
francs ;. the proceeds of the taxes, at 
899,510,885 francs.—There is also an 
Ordinance, which decrees that.the titles 
of Baron, Viscount, Count, Marquess, 
and Duke, which he shall henceforth 
think fit to confer on those of his sub- 
jects who shall have appeared worthy of 
them, shall be personal, and not go down 
to their children or descendants in the 
direct line, unless the possessors of such 
titles shall have been so authorized hy 
his Majesty. 
The last will of Napoleon has at length 
been published in England, but its cireu- 
lation has been prohibited in Bourbon 
France. The following passages, are 
curious :— 
I die in the apostolical Roman religion, 
in the bosom of which I was born more 
than fifty years. It is my wish that my 
ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, 
in the midst of the French people, whom I 
have loved so well. 
I have always had reason to be pleased 
with my dearest wife, Marie Louise: I re- 
tain for her to my last moment the most 
tender sentiments ; I beseech her to watch, 
in order to preserve my son from the snares 
which yet environ his infancy. I recom- 
mend to my son never to forget he was born 
a French prince, and never to allow himself 
to become an instrument in the hands of the 
triumvirs who oppress the nations of Eu- 
rope; he ought never to fight against 
France, or to injure her in any manner ; 
he ought to adopt my motto—“ Every thing 
for the French people.” 
I.—I die prematurely, assassinated by the 
English oligarchy and its * * *. The Eng- 
lish nation will not be slow in avenging me. 
The two unfortunate results of the invasions 
of France, when she had still so many re- 
sources. 
