Stute of Fiihlic Jffairs in August, 
[Sept. I, 
m 
First division—Lieut. Gen. Sir Brent Spen- ' 
bart. K. B. 
Second division—Lieut. Gen. HilL and Ma¬ 
jor Gen. the Hon. Wiliiam Stewart. 
Third division—Major General Picton. 
Fourth division—Major Gen. the Hon. L. 
Cole. 
Fifth division—Major Gen. Leith, now sick 
in England 5 Major Gen. Dunlop temporary 
commander. 
Sixth division—Major Gen. Archibald 
Campbell. 
Seventh division—Major Gen. Houston. 
Light division—Major Gen. Robert Craw¬ 
ford. 
Second in command—Lieut. Gen. Graham. 
Commander of the Portuguese army, but 
without any fixed station, the Portusuese 
being in brigade with the English—Lieut. 
Gen. Sir William Berestord, K. B. Marshal 
of Portugal. 
■ Commander in Chief of the British forces 
in Spain and Portugal, excepting Gibraltar— 
General Lord Viscount Wellington, Marshal 
General of the Portuguese armies, and Cap¬ 
tain General (ec^ual to Marshal of France) 
in Spain. 
FRANCE. 
French budget for 1811, presented by 
the Orators of the Council of State. 
Francs. 
Exoenditure of the Grand Judge 27,466,000 
Foreign Affairs - 8,800,000 
Domestic Affairs - 60,000,000 
Finances - 24,000,000 
Imperial Treasury 8,400,000 
War - - 280,000,000 
Ministry of War 180,000,000 
Marine . - 140,000,000 
Religion - 16,500,000 
Police - ^ 2,000,000 
Expence of Negocia- 
tiuns - 8,500,000 
Funds in reserve re¬ 
maining over¬ 
plus of the ex- 
pences - 22,034,000 
Grand total 777,700,000 
Rather mere than tkirty two millions 
sterling, or, about one third of the expen¬ 
diture of Great Britain! 
The preceding statement is of singular im¬ 
portance, as the present is declared to be a 
war bt finance ; formerly of Great Britain 
against the f,.nancts of France, but now of 
France against the finances of Great Britain. 
The udds are, we fear, inversely as 3 to 1. 
The French ixiinister in his Expos^, 
introduces the following strung paragraphs 
relative to the two belligerents: 
“ Cries of distress issue from the bosom of 
the British Isles ; credit, which supported her 
colossal and factitious power, is shaken j and 
that government, already banished from the 
Continent, but which, nevertheless, Jooasted 
amidst the cumbrous heaps of its manufactures, 
of being able to exchange its productions for 
all the gold of Mexico and of Peru, is forced 
to proclaim its error, to acknowledge that ic 
loses public confidence, and to propose the 
enforcement of a paper-money. 
“ The English government desires war, 
the monopoly of commerce, and the Gomina- 
tion of the seas ; —its allies are either destroyed 
or lost to it j it ruins all those whom it wishes 
to subsidize ; it exhausts i#s people i.n useless - 
efforts ; it is punished for its selfishness by 
its state of insulation 3 and, after having 
heaped loan upon loan, tax upon tax, be¬ 
sieged by complaints, threatened with com¬ 
motions, it is reduced to propose to the peu- 
ple, by way of resource, a fictitious money, 
which has no other pledge but a confidence 
which exists no longer. 
“ The emperor, on the other hand, wishes 
for peace, and the liberty of the seasj he-has 
800,000 men under arms; the princes of 
Europe are his allies 3 his whole empire en¬ 
joys profound tranquillity; without loans, 
without anticipation, 954 millions, raised 
with facility, secure the free execution of his 
noble plans 3 and his Majesty commissions us 
to address you only in the language of satii- 
faction and hope.” 
NORTH OF EUROPE. 
Letters from Prussia continue to speak of 
the probability of war between Russia and 
France, and one of them expressly says, 
“ the die is castf and %var is ine’vitable.*' In 
corroboration of tliis account, it is asserted in 
numerous letters, that preparations are making 
atEylau for the reception of the French empe- 
ror 3 and that an army is forming in that neigh¬ 
bourhood, toeonsist of French, Poles, and Ger¬ 
mans. In the neighbourhood of Koningsburgh, 
is a foice of 25,000 Prussians, wholly devoted 
to the" purposes of Buonaparte. On the 2dth 
and 27th uk. 15,000 men marched through 
Stettin, on their way to Dantzic, wliich alreaoy 
had within us wails 10,000 French, and in, 
the country adjacent were 30,000 more. Ax 
V/arsaw’ a military depot had been established, 
and an army of 20,000 men collected, which 
was daily augmenting. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
Tire Sinking Funrl woulfl work miracles 
in tlie reduction of the public del>t, if sc 
had not also a direct tendency to raise 
prices, and increase the public expendi¬ 
ture, which therefore increases in a higher 
ratio. The following is an account of 
the reduction of the national debt, from 
the 1st of August, 1786, to tiie 1st of 
August, 1811:— ef'. 
Rcvleemed by the Sinking Fund 180,345,602. 
Transferred by Land-tax re¬ 
deemed . 23,833,476 
Ditto by Life Annuities pur¬ 
chased . . 1,449,990 
On Account of Great BiUain 2.05j629>068 
On 
