Statistics. 
Bank of 
France. 
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FRANCE. 
business done with it to 453,600,000. In the central 
departments, the circulating medium was 1,035,189,600 
livres; and the trade. carried on with it amounted to 
it gives recognizances bearing interest. Its general as- 
eembly.s composed. of 200 holders, .each of five shares 
or above, who elect fifteen directors and three censors, 
each of whom must be holders of at least thirty shares. 
Between 1783 and 1803, the bank of France was ex- 
posed to four tem y suspensions, viz. in 1783, 1787, 
Pa aca oot ee Sr ager Tree omer 
page 3 » in 1814, allies 
entered France, and just before left Paris, to 
put himself at the head of his army. 
The public funds of France consist of, 1st, Bank 
shares, or actions de la banque, as they are called ; and, 
2d, Third consolidated, or tiers consolidé,. The latter 
is a 5 per cent. stock. The bank stock is disposed of 
in shares, or actions of 1000 francs each. 
the Ist of ag! age the land forces of France 
amounted to more 520,000 men, including all de- 
Tita) of all renks Seinckens tata 
i Y enjoying half pay: in Prussia, Rus- 
sia, Austria, and England, there were 160,000 prison- 
ers. The pay of men. in active service for the-year 
to 202,000,000 franes; the half pay to 
735 
annually. }Each cohort-consisted of 7 great or superior Statistics. 
officers or dignitaries, 20 commanders, 30 officers, and. “"y"—" 
$50 legionarées.. The great officers had an annual in- 
come of 5000 francs; the commanders 2000 ; the offi- 
cers 1000, and the legionaries 250... The knights of 
eis apa honour amouht!to between 6000, and 
In the reign of Louis XIV. the French’ navy was Naval 
strong enough ‘to equip a fleet of 63 ships of the line, ‘7 force. 
frigates, 36 vessels armed en flute, and 14 cutters, under 
the orders of Tourville, in the year 1690. In 1704, the 
French fleet that fought the combined English and 
Dutch fleets consisted of 50) ships of the line, 8 fri- 
gates, and 9 fire-ships. In 1791, the French navy 
consisted of 73 ships of the line, 67 frigates, 19 
cutters, 29 armed brigs, 7 gun-boats, besides several 
rs ships, galliots, &c. But the war with Engs 
land ann 
ihilated the navy of France. The efforts of 
Bonaparte, however, were incessantly directed to its 
re-establishment. According to the exposé for 1814, 
the most absurd of Bonaparte’s schemes were those 
which related to the establishment of a numerous .and 
powerful saa! Paris itself saw a dock-yard formed 
within its walls. And what now remains of all these 
armaments? The wrecks of some of the vessels and ac- 
counts, which prove that for the successive creation and 
destruction of this monstrous and useless flotilla, up= 
wards of 150,000,000 francs have been sacrificed: since 
1803. The grand works executed at Cherbourg, and 
the fine squadron of Toulon, alone present useful re- 
sults.. All the arsenals are completely dilapidated ; the 
immense naval stores collected by Louis XVI. are squan- 
dered; and during the last 15 years, France lost 43 
ships of the line, 82 frigates, and 76 corvettes, which 
could not be replaced at an expence of 200,000,000. | In 
_ the total debt of the navy amounted to:61,300,000 
cs. . : ua ] 
During the republican government, a system of tints Weights’ 
form weights and measures was established upon a sim- a aie. 
ple plan. The elementary measure is connected with sures. 
tries ceded by France, in the treaty of Paris, cost, since the dimensions of the terrestrial globe. This ‘measure, 
the 1804, 115,000,000, — : which is called metre, ‘or mésure par excellence; is the 
we may now hope that the army of France, ten millionth part of a of the terrestrial meri- 
that engine by means of which. in- dian, that is; of ‘the distance of ‘the’ ‘from’ the 
flicted on E so many evils, is put beyond the power 
of farther mischief, pot Ta shag hoa tingoattedestil to 
Notice its constitution during the »period. of its most 
feeeieiinaten atin ddl beme-wrene mp eres 
try regimen ts, at 3230 men ; 27 regiments 
light infantry, at the same number of men each; 2 re- 
giments of carabineers; 12 regiments of cuirassiers ; 
30 regiments of dragoons ; 24 regiments of chasseurs ; 
10 regi of hussars ; 8) re 1s of arti on 
foot; 6 regiments of horse arti ; 22 battalions of 
the artillery train ; 16 companies of artillery labourers ; 
2 battalions of pontooners ; '9 companies of miners ; 
5 battalions of sappers ; 1 battalion of gardes du genie. 
These were commanded by 15 warshale of the empire, 
150 generals of division, 800 generals of brigade, and 
135 adjutants-commandants. The army was recruited 
by voluntary enlistings, and by a rigorous concription, 
which comprised all Frenchmen from the age of 20 to 
25, without any distinction of rank, fortune, or busi- 
ness. Every soldier might rise to the highest rank ; 
no commission could be sold. The military spirit was 
also animated by the decoration of a mili order, 
called the Legion of Honour, which is still retained. 
It was originally composed of 16 cohorts, each 
of nati domains to the amount of 200,000 francs 
pole; it is equal to 3:feet 11,44 inches, The are serves . 
to measure the surface of the soil, in' the same manner 
as the arpent ;-it lates to 100 square metres, or 
94833. square feet. e' stere is equal to a cubic me- 
tre, or’ £22 eubie feet! The oe is the measure of 
capacity ; it is equal'to a cubic decimetre, or 504% cua 
bis inches, or sth of the former pint of ‘Paris. “The 
gramme marks the weight ; it is equal to the weight of 
a cubic centimetre of pure water, at its maximumr of 
density. It has been found equal to 18.827 French 
grains, of which 5.76 make 472.5 nee ; and 489.5058 
pe make a pound of the stan 
‘aris ef i 
These five primitive measures are successively mul- 
tiplied or divided by 10, in order to form the greater 
or smaller measures, by analogy to the decimal system 
of arithmetic. The three divisors are deci, cent?, and 
milli, expressing the tenth, hundredth, or thousandth 
part ; thus decimetre is the 10th part of the metre, de- 
ciarc the 10th part of the arc, &c. The four multipli- 
cators are deca, hecto, kilio, and myria, denoting ten 
times, hundred times, thousand times, and ten thousand 
times: thus the decametre is 10 metres, the hectare 
100 arcs, the kiliometre 1000 metres, the myriagramme 
10,000 grammes, 
of the mint at , 
