272 Political Affairs in September. [Oct. 1, 
HEADS OF EXPENDITURE in 1822. SUMS. 
Vi.—The other Payments in Aaticipation of the Exchequer z s. 
Receipts, viz. ; 2 
Bounties for Fisheries, Manufactures, § Customs+++++e+eeees 320,045 4 
Corn, KCyeeeeseseseeseveereree ; Excise «+sscccccces 72,951 10 
Pensions on the Hereditary § Excise--+++-+++++see+eseeeeees 14,000 0 
Revenne----+++++++-+- 0 Post Officesessees-seeeeeees 13,700 0 
Militia and Deserters’ Warrants, &c.—Excise and Taxes +++ 56,176 19 
VII.—The Navy, viz. 
Wages:-- SSO ele ess wee ce vescnsceceeet sieves uve ole 2,304,000 0 
General Services --+-++-+--- Bey acs oe ce ceetcccece 2,789,220 3 
The Victualling Department ---++ereereesss+ seeeerncees 850,659 12 
VITI.—The Ordnance o-e+eceecesseeresseesersesssttececessees | 1,337,993 & 
1X.—The Army, viz. 
Ordinary Services:+++eceeseceseeeeececeeescecasssensccs 7,854,114 14 
Extraordinary Services -+++++rs+++++- seen e ee eee e eens 1,079,090. 17 
X.—Issues from Appropriated Funds, for Local Purposcs, in Ireland 48,038 11 
XI.—Miscellaneous Services : 
At Home cece cecccccceterercssessvevesscncs daze wh s\0's ar 3,567,482 2 
Abroad .---cosccccceesssees aipieib (ei dlaiain(S mielclarslwieur aiaieioie se 4 302,560 10 
Total Expenditure «-+-++-- 
Deduct, Sinking Fund on Loan to the East India Company 
FRANCE. 
The Anvouleme faction still conti- 
nues to misgovern France with a fury 
of despotism, which can scarcely fail 
to lead to a violent general re-action. 
It seems that the recorded experience 
of ages, and the inevitable fate of all 
tyrannies, have not a greater practical 
influence on the unbridled passions of 
modern statesmen, than they have on 
vulgar culprits, who are daily led to 
execution from a similar disregard of 
all salutary warning. 
The restraints on the press, and the 
harsh and illiberal policy of the ruling 
administration, having, as might be 
expected, forced many over-zealous 
patriots into premature conspiracies, 
France has seen tribunals in simulta- 
neous action scattered over its terri- 
tory, to try these ill-fated individuals. 
Several have been fonnd guilty, and, 
as clemency is not. the order of the 
day, their unrelenting execution has 
followed, or will follow, of course. 
Others, who were at the same time 
convicted of being accessories, have 
been sentenced to terms of imprison- 
ment which little accord with the 
spirit of an enlightenedage. In short, 
the unmitigated fate of these victims 
of their own indiscreet zeal, has ex- 
cited the sympathies of generous 
minds throughout France and all Eu- 
rope, and has greatly injured the 
cause of legitimacy, which their sacri- 
fice has been intended to support. 
72,561,756 4 
163,739 2 
Total -e+eeee+ | 72,198,017 1 
But the most unreasonable exertion 
of a malevolent spirit is that which 
has been directed against the four pa- 
triotic journals of Paris, for daring to 
participate publicly in the unavoidable 
sympathies of millions, ‘The responsi- 
ble proprietors have, by a summary 
precess, been adjudged to various im- 
prisonments, subjected to heavy fines, 
and arbitrarily prohibited for a term 
to publish any reports of proceedings 
in courts of law! Even this did not 
suffice to satisfy the ruling faction ; for, 
having wiihin a few days published a 
letter of that distinguished patriot and 
philosopher, M. Benjamin Constant, 
their papers were seized, and’ the 
writer himself, for repelling a judicial 
calumny, has been prosecuted. 
The ill blood which these measures, 
and a thousand other vexations, has 
engendered in France, will not be 
appeased till satisfaction has been 
obtained for the past, and better 
security than royal promises granted 
for correct conduct in future. 
France, in a word, is become a 
ereat prison, in which not, only fo- 
reigners are subjected to the irksome 
regime of passports to move, and. 
permits to reside; but Frenchmen of 
all ranks are subjected to the constant 
surveillance of the police, and to such 
an inquisition as necessarily existed 
during “the contest of parties in the 
mateh of the late revolution, when 
foreign influence supported treasens~ 
against every free institution. 
SPAIN. 
