1802] 
end, Third Confolidated or Tiers Con- 
folidé. 
The fpeculation on the Exchange at 
Paris turns principally on the Third Con; 
folidated. 
It is prefumed that the amount of that 
ftock is about 38,000,000 Francs already 
confolidated. 
Life Annuities, including Penfions, may 
be 39,000,000 Francs; but this fum de- 
creales in proportion to the expiration of 
the lives. There will be this year about 
2,800,000 Francs of.the provifion confo- 
lidated in the Tiers Confolide; and there 
remain moreover to be liquidated 
2,000,000 Francs in Perpetual -Annu- 
ities :—-20,000,000 Francs in Life An- 
nutties. 
The fettlement of the above two annui- 
ties will take at leaft 10 years. 
The writer concludes that the whole 
amount of the Public Debt is about 
101,800,000 Francs. 
A Franc is in value a little more than 
tod. of our money. According to this’ 
calculation the National Debt of France 
is no more than between 4 and 5,000,0001, 
fterling. 
The Tiers Confolidé is a 5 per cent 
ftock, and has been lately quoted in the 
Moniteur as fuch. The price ftands at 
prefent between 55 and 56; i. e. a capi- 
tal of 100 bearing intereft.at 5 per. cent, 
per annum, would coft: between 55 and 
561. fterling : confequently this (tock pays 
between 8 and gl. annual intereft. 
The intereft is paid every 6 months in 
cafh; but he who buys at any time be- 
tween the 21ft. of March and the 2rft. of | 
eptember, will have a right to the inte- 
reft only commencing from the datter day. 
‘If he purchafe between the 21ft. of Sep- 
tember and 21ft. of March, his vight.to 
the intereft does not commence till March 
2ift. and he would not receive his firft 
half-yearly dividend till September 21f. 
The feller always retains his right to half 
a year’s intereft at the fucceeding ftated 
time of payment. ‘This is the rule. 
For buying, no fort of formality is re- 
quired; but for receiving tmtereft, -or 
felling, a power of attorney is neceffary. 
The Bank-ftock is difpofed of in thares 
or actions of 1000 Francs each. Its ca- 
pitalis computed to be about 31,800,000 
Francs, and there is every reafon to 
believe that, as foon as commerce refumes 
its flourifhing ftate, it will eftablifh an 
annual dividend from between 8 to sol, 
per cent. 
_ It isa curious circumftance that the 3 
“per cent ftock of this country, burthened 
French Funds3 
543 
with a debt of between 5 and 606,000,000! 
fterling, is upwards 70, while the 5 per 
cent ftock of France, whofe public debt 
does not amount to §,000,0001. (if the 
above ftatement be accurate), is not at 
prefent quite 56. , 
Any additional information on this fub- 
ject, will greatly oblige, 
Sir, your conftant reader, 
Sune 7th, 1802. , Q.. 
ieee a ee | 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
if WILL thank you to correé& a rather 
( fingular error of the prefs in page 417 
of your laft Number. The paflage from 
Virgil fhould have ftood thus, 
qui fe, 
Bebrycia veniens, Amyci de gente ferebats 
i.e. Who coming from Bebrycia profeffed 
to be of the family of Amycus. oy ee 
have fince feen to be Dr. Hunter’s emen- 
dation. More than enough has been 
faid on the paflage; otherwife a itill 
different mode of pointing and interpret- 
ing it might be fuggefted, I cannot con- 
clude without expreffing my furprize that 
the common clumfy method fhould have 
fatisfied all the editors previous to Mr, 
Wakefield. Tam, Sir, your’s &c. 
Higham-bill, Walihampow, E.Cocan. 
May 5, 1802. 
Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
FIND by your Magazine for this 
month that (ome friend has inferted in 
your Literary Intelligence, a notice of a 
Tranflation of mine from the German 
Schweighaulen:—Now, if fuch a word 
exifts in the German Language, (which 
my knowledge of the language makes me 
very much doubt), it mult evidently mean 
a Proper Name and not the title of any 
work.—Of courfe, as it now ftands in your 
Literary Varieties, (page 465) it is abfo- 
lutely nonfenfe. 
The work which I am engaged in tran- 
flating, is in the French Language, and 
publithed at Ifembourg, in three volumes 
8vo. 1764. under the title of Les Idées 
Confufes, by the Abbé de Val. 
My Tranflation wil, I truit, make its 
appearance in the month of Augult next, 
in two volumes 8yvo. 
{I hope therefore you will invert this let- 
ter, boch in order tocorreck amifiake, from 
which your excellent Repofitory is in 
general exempt, and likewile cn my ac- 
count, 
