FRANCE = - 
A very inconfiderable part of the Freach trade is carried 
Colbert was the firft minifter of ftate 
from 100 to 2 c ons. From that period, pala to the 
revolution of 1789, the French merchant na 
fe) 
that time, though t 
ployed 705 -veifels, there were Beat ely 100 oe among 
8 of Trance had not above 
urope 
took up 2 about the fame time 580,0c0 tons, of which a little 
better than a fourth, or 152,000 tons, were French. 
official report made by Roland to the national 
convention in 1793, it appears that in the year 1792 there 
entered inwards into the ports of France 7607 veflels, 
amounting in all to 639,235 tons ; of which 
823 veflels, or 147,821 tons, were French, 
494 - - 145,012) - - Englifh, 
- - -346,402 = belo onging td 
other nations. A e fam eee there cléared o 
wards 8618 veffels, amounting in all t 
which 
1940 ioe or ee i were French, 
0,6 - Englith, and 
3567 - a - - belonging to fe- 
veral she vationé. , 
‘The money in circulation in France in the year 1789 was 
flated by Mr. Benvallet Defbrodes in his ** Tableau des 
Richefles de la France,” at 2,474,254,960 livres, 350 
millions of ck confifted in notes of the Caiffe d’Ef- 
se aie 
ne maritime departments the circulating medium 
soiee to 1,053,838,350 livres, and the bufinefs tranf- 
ae , its means Bis ,435 600,000 Hivaes In ha fe on 
een central ae > pees 
medium wa Tay livres, and the e carried on 
ith it amounted 4,600,000 livres ; “this more ani- 
v to 
aa aaa antag entirely from the trade of the me- 
‘The fia ndard coin of France is a piece of filver.of the 
weight of five grammes, or five tines 18 $41, grains, contain- 
ing a tenth of alloy and 9, of pure filver, and very nearly the 
24th part.of the’ pound! fterling? s metallic value. It is calleda 
franc, and fubdivided into décimes and centimes. Its value is 
to that of the ancient livre Tournois inthe proportion of 87 to 
80, or as it contains , of fine filver, it 1s equal to 1 livre, 
_ a capital ftoc 
° 5445935 tons, “of 
eftablifhing uniform weights and méafures 
a e are pieces Of 5 francs, 2 francs, 3, 4, and — 
deaux, 
K; Nantes, T; Lille, Ws Strafburg, BB; 
Lyons, D; Geneva, G; Marfeilles, LM; Turin, C. - 
The ps bank of France was eftablifhed in pore with _ 
thirty millions of francs in hard cafh, made 
up of thirty eubad fhares of a thoufand = ma ak 
makes each fhare equal to 1012 livres Tou The law 
il, 18c6, infures to this i an exclu-., 
which it gives recognizances bearing intereft, and m 
- either to the bearer or to order. _Its 
mpofed of 200 
J 
and cenfors m olders of - leat thirty fhares. 
of the eon and one of the c 
5 per pS ee ae 
lefs ests | times, as the “dividends nek be under 
5 
Aker many fruitlefs attempts by almoft all the rulers of 
France from Charlemagne down to Louis XIV., France, 
during its fhort-lived republican -conftit nina fucceeded in © 
nthe fo a ; 
ing fimple plan. ‘The French fundamental, ele mentary, 
meafure, is conneCted with the dimenfions af the 
fame manner as the: ancient a 
{quare metres, or 948 va fquare fe fe - 
e ftere is equal to a cubic metre, or 
The litre is the ceniagiee? of capacity. 
cubic decimetre, or 50 7 
of the form 
is equal to 100. 
ends pone fest. 
ual to 
<4% cubic inches, or oie ea : 
mer pint of = 
‘The gramme marks the weight. It is equal to the weight 
of a cubic centimetre : atu ied water, and weighs s 183 
grains, 
Thefe five primitive meafures are pr daanwuee multiplied | 
or fubdivided by ten, in order to form the greater or fmaller 
= 
rt 
>a ili, exprefling the t 
dredth, or eer ne part: thus, sei pee is ie tenth part... 
of the metre, deciare Fhe tenth the are, decittere 
the tenth part of the ftere, deciltre the tenth part of the 
4 franc. he hia is the tenth part of a franc. It is ‘litre, and decigramme the tenth part wt The 
equal to 2 3 deniers. - e centime is the hundredth four maliplintor are deca, hecto; kilio, and ‘myria, de- 
part of a font 2 43, denier. hi oins, noting ten times, hund: red times, thoufand times, and ten. 
d Napoleons d’or, or ofto Ss 
q gold c 
like the filver’ coin, contain ,', ‘of alloy, and ~% OFF ade metal, 
valle apole An 
he ‘elio 
ramme 
inftieute for the ‘beft:anfwer to its prize queftions, is valued 
at 3375 franes. ‘Fhe towns which have mints where money 
is coined are diftinguithed by a particular letter on the coin. 
Paris has the letter A; Perpignan, Q; Bayonne, di Bor. 
weight ;-thus the | 
ecame etre is ten metres, cae hectare puvies ares, the kiko. 
litre a thoufand eid the- myriagramme ten thoufand.. . 
grammes, or zolb. 7 ounces, 58 grains.. 
That 
France has not -yet recov sane hy former dégree cf” 
profperity may be inferred fro om the price of land, which is. 
cheap, and the intereft of money, te 18 very hi gh. Mr. 
Pinkney, who tray — iecagk the fouth of ioe in 
1807. 
