FRANCE, 
734. 
Taxes on Consumption. Fame, Dgeite ‘English Money. 
Re sos es 58,560,000 | £2,562,000 
Wine, Brandy, &c. 56,250,181 | 2,460,444 
Tobacco. . - - 27,000,000. | 1,181,205 
Leither .”. 5,850,008 255,937 
Paper and Cards 1,081,509 47,315 
Starch and Powder . 758,049 $3,164 
ee eee 980,000 42,875 
Ral one adc 763,000 33,381 
Glass. . 150,000 6,562 
Soap... 838,971 |. 36,704 
Linen and Stuffs 150,000, 6,562 
Octrois, &e. . ss 57,561,552 2,518,317 
Cattle . arnt 630,000 _- 27,562 
Customs . .. : 23,440,000 1,025,500 
Tas... ; 5,000,000 218,750 
Stamps . , . |. 20,244,473 | 885,695 
Local duties 1,138,162" 49,575 
260,390,905 | £11,391,548. 
General Revenue. 
Taxes on land . 171,565,264 | £7,505,980 
Domaines . 9,900,000 433,125 
Consumption 260,390,905 | 11,391,548, 
Piast 44,240,000 | ~ 1,935,500 
Monopolies . 28,513,774 1,247,496 
Sundries . . . . .» | 12,580,000 550,375 
Taxes not received on 
account of govern- 95,900,000 4,195,625 
ment r Wir, 
622,999,043, | £27,259,649 
At the Revolution, the taxes of excise were com- 
pletely abolished, and all. the other indirect taxes ma- 
ially simplified. The present regular revenue is des 
rived from.a land-tax, which is about 15 per cent. both 
for landlord and. tenant;\a i} tax; a tax on moves 
ables and sumptuaries; on houses and windows; on pas 
tentees; on the penne of exercising any profession ; 
additional centimes or hundreds ; from the produce of 
the national domains and forests; customs, ‘post-office; 
lottery, salt mines, &c. All these taxes in 1803,) pro 
ref a total sum of 569,500,000 francs. The expen- 
diture the same year amounted :to 589,500,000 francs. 
The nce of collection was, between 15 and:16»per 
cent. It was calculated by the minister of finance, in 
this year, that the capital value of the real-property-of 
France was at least 30 milliards of francs. , 
Every village and commune of France has a collector 
or- tax gatherer, who pays over the amount of his receipts 
to a treasurer, called a particular receiver, of whom there 
is one for every district. There is also-a receiver-ge- 
neral for each department, into whose’ hands the parti- 
cular receiver pays the sums drawn from thé’ collectors, 
and who communicate directly with the treasury. They 
are all under the superintendance of an administration, 
entitled the Direction of the Taxes. In 1805, the num- 
ber of ory snes belonging to the direction of taxes, 
amoun throughout the empire, without including 
Piedmont, to 1044. ae 
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finances. Premising these reasons for caution, we shalt 
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ed a deficit of 312,000,000. 
of the wat in the Peninsula, all were more 
than covered by foreign pillage: ; that, while the 
very 
the national debt’ of 1,645,469,000° 
ployed in paying off former debts. The whole o 
Venandable debt at the accession of. Louis, an ws 
to 759,000,000 franes : “at the time of the Re 
it exceeded three milliards, or 3,000,000,000 of francs. 
The receipts of 1814 were calculated by the minister of 
finance at 520,000,000 ; the ex at 827,415,000, 
leaving a deficit of 307,415,000. The ences of 
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a9 doriains, and woods, (the domainal forests still 
amounting to 1,400,000 hectares 3), 120,000,000 ; sts, 
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lottery, salt-works,’ tolls’ on navigation, and inciden 
receipts,28,000,000; partes Ar 80,000,000; 
making a total of 618,000,000. We have given these 
calculations, though subsequent events.rendered it im-. 
—_ that they should be'realized, because they ex- 
»it a probable picture of what will be the resources 
and expenditure of France, when that kingdom is re- 
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‘The-amount of specie existing in France before the cireulating 
Revolution, was « ted 
francs, In the 1789, it is stated ws Bouvallet 
in his Tableau des Richesses de la France, 
at’ 2,474,254,960 livres, 350,000,000 of which consist- 
ed in’ Notes of the Caisse d’Escompte. In the year 
1807, Peuchet, in his Statistique de la France, su 
it to have amounted, within the limits of the old territo- 
, to 1,850,000,000. ' In’ 1789, it was calculated, that, 
in the maritime departments, the ch ‘fing medium 
amounted to’ 1,05$,838,350 livres; and the business 
transacted by ‘its means, to 4,485,600,000,000 livres. In 
those on the boundaries of France, the money in cir- 
culation amounted only to 885,227,000 livres, and the 
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by Neckar at 2,200,000,000 medium. 
