Public Affairs...Frances 
To ferve abroad, from the Trifh 
eftablifhment . - 3,254 
The fums of the eftimates were nearly as 
follow 
For the ftanding force of 12,000 £, 
men . 5525938 
Augmentation - - 550,946 
Troops on foreign fervice 101,570 
For charges of cavalry on Dublin 
duty wi SN - 8,000 
_ Forage - - f 1375545 
Yeomanry corps - - 294,190 
Commiffariate - - $9,066 
Bat and forage for ftaff and medi- 
cal department - 31,000 
Thefe, among fome other items of lefs 
import, being agreed to, Capt. Paken- 
ham moved for the ordnance eftimate 
4.44,9621.---Agreed. 
+ On the 8th of February, the Chancel- 
lor of the Exchequer rofe, and after fome 
preface, ftated, that the amount of the 
fupply voted by the Houle, being the 
amount of the eftimates for the expences 
of the enfuing year,-was 4,194,000l. Up- 
on a cemparifon of this eftimate with that 
of the laftiyear, it would, he faid, appear 
to be-lefs by 432,000]. but he account- 
ed for this appearance, and proved that 
the public expences would be found to ex- 
ceed thofe of the former year by 400,000l. 
and this excefs arofe partly from the en- 
creafed pay and additional force of the 
country. The fum which remained to 
be provided for the current expences of 
the year was 2,200,000], at an intereft 
of 10 per cent. for he would not confine 
his eftimate to a lefs intereft, leat, ac the 
prefent ftate of money, ke fhould not be 
able to obtain it at lefs. 
The new taxes he propofed were, as 
follow: the prefent tax on carriages of 
fix guineas to be doubled, which would 
produce 36,000]. A tax of one guinea 
on maid fervants, he eftimated at 20,0001. 
Sixpence a gallon on home made fpirits, 
of which the number of gallons diitilled 
the afk year was 3,700,000, duty 
94,0001. A fimilar addition on foreign 
fpirits umported, 20,0001. Sixpence per 
pound on tobacco, 66,6661. Lottery 
25,2211. Duty on home made paper, 
18,00cel. Duty on iron, 11s. 4d, per 
ton, 5,656]. Licence on Breweries, of 
tol. each, 10,9001. Additional duty on 
newfpapers, 1000}. Live cattle exported 
at threepence per head, 8,4000l. By a 
new regulation in  franking letters, 
30,0001. He alfo propofed an additional 
hearth tax. He moved for one or more 
lotteries, under the ufual regulations, 
which was agreed to. Progrefs was or- 
dered to be reported. : 
Montu, Mac, No, XXVIII, 
43 
. FRANCE, 
From the tranfa&tions which took 
place fome fince in Italy, and from thote 
ef a more recent date in the Batavian 
Republic, and in Switzerland, it appears 
doubtlefs, that there is a revolutionary 
{pirit undermining the foundation of the 
ancient governments of Europe. Whe- 
ther this {pirit of innovation arifes from 
thofe views of ambition and plunder 
which the enemies of the French Repub- 
licans have fo often charged them with, 
or from a revolution which is making a 
rapid progrefs in the human mind, in- 
dependent of external coercion, is a quef- 
tion which we are unable to decide with 
precifion; but a fhort time will probably 
render it eafy of folution, or no longer 
problematical. 
The French republic ftiil continues to 
excite the hatred of its fubieéts againft 
the Britifh government; the central ad- 
miniftration of the department of the 
Seine iffued a proclamation, in the begin- 
ning of February, addrefled to the inha- 
bitants of that department, refpeting. the 
intended invafion of England. ‘ The 
Englifh government (fays this addrefs) 
cannot fubfift with the French republic ; 
there cannot fubfift an alliance between 
ignominy and glory, between wickednefs 
and virtue.” And in another place, 
‘¢ By fwearing hatred to royalty, we 
have {worn defruétion to the Englith 
government ; by {wearing hatred againft 
anarchy, we have {worn deitruétion to the 
Enelifh government.” 
But the governors of the great nation, 
notwithitanding the hatred they have ex- 
hibited again royalty, have not vet, it 
appears, united their own fubjects in a 
general amity to their cwn meafures. By 
an arrét of the Directory of the 2d of 
February, the city of Lyons and its 
three fuburbs were putin a ftate of fiege. 
The chief motives affigned for this mea- 
fure were, the difloyal {pirit which pre-- 
vailed there, from the influence of the 
companies of Jefus and of the fun-—of . 
the affaffins of the fouth—of emigrants, 
&c. and the trifling fenifation produced 
there by the immortal tranfattions of the 
4th of September laft, fince which day, 
new commotions have been excited there, - 
by bands of counter-revolutionary ruf-- 
fians. On this occafion, the Directory 
ordered, that the minifter at war fhould 
fend there the number of troops necef- 
fary, both of infantry and cavalry, 
On the 6th of February, @ motion was 
made, by GUILLEMARDET in_ the 
council of five hundred, for alt ging the 
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