1802. } 
3- Awyr, ac o hano pob anadyl, ac ymmod. 
4. Haul, ac o hano pob gwrés, a goleuni. 
5. Nwyvre, ac o hano pob tefmlad, a ferg, ac 
ymnwyv. < - a e 
6. Yfbryd glan, ac o hano péb deall, a fwyll, 
ac awen, a gwybodau. - AW Aa 
.7- Duw, ac o hano péb bywyd, a cadernyd, 
acynnal hyd byth bythoz. “- 
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| 3+ Air, and from it proceeds every breath and 
motion. 
4. Sun, and from it proceeds every heat and 
light. 
5. The exciting current, and from it pro- 
ceeds every ferfation, and affeCtion, and 
felf-motion. | 
-6. Pure fpirit, and from it proceeds every 
underftanding, and reafon, and genius, and 
cognition. 
7. God, and from whom proceeds every life, 
and power, and continuance through the 
world of worlds. 
T am afraid I have extended this article to too great a length, and fhall therefore 
elofe it, with obferving, that confiderable difficulties occurred in rendering into Eng- 
lith the-clafs called the combined aphorifms, owing to a peculiar idiom which runs 
through the originals, and which has no equivalent in the Englifh tongue. 
Sept. 1, 1802. 
I remain, Sir, your’s, &c. 
MEIRION. 
oS Eee ees, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, - 
ie the information refpecting the French 
funds, conveyed to the public in your 
Jatt Number, by your correfpondent Q. 
he appears to have fallen into an error of 
calculation as to the grofs amount of their 
national debt. For though he may be 
nearly right in fuppofing it to exceed one 
hundred mijlions, he certainly is not fo in 
ufing the term francs or livres tournois, 
inftead of livres fterling ; for the fact is, 
that the principal of the French national 
-debt amounts to one hundred millions 
fterling and upwards, and the annual in- 
tereft to fomething between four and five. 
Even with this augmentation in the ac- 
count it is, comparatively fpeaking, a 
light burthen on a country fo rich in po- 
pulation, induftry, and refources: efpe- 
cially as a finking fund is now eftablifhed 
for the gradual diminution and final ex- 
tinguifhment of this debt. How far the 
policy of the French Government is to be 
commended in the mode of diminifhing 
this debt in 1797, when they paid off 
two-thirds of it in paper called Bons 
(now of little or no value), isa quetion 
that regards their credit: but the princi- 
ple of juftice and gocd faith to the Britith 
ftockholder in the French funds was indif- 
putably violated, when they. placed him 
in the fame fituation with the French ci- 
tizen—for while the former was, at the 
period in queftion, under a legal difabi- 
lity, and could have no communication 
whatever with France without incurring 
the penalty of high treafon, the French 
ftockholder could and did negociate thele 
bons and government-paper, which were 
taken in payment for the purchafe of na- 
tional property. The confequence to the 
Britifh ttockholder of French funds has been 
(fuch is the prefent depreciatidn of this pa- 
per) the total annihilation of near two 
thirds of his property. It was, indeed, ex- 
pected, that in the negociation of the defini- 
tive treaty fome arrangements would have 
been made upon this fubjeét, and that the 
- Noble Marquis would, under the authority 
of his Majefty’s Minifters, andinconformity 
to the juft requifition of a large body of 
thefe injured proprietors, have paid due 
attention to, and have enforced, their 
claims, with that fpirit and energy which 
a regard to jultice and the Britifh cha- 
racter appeared to demand; and that he 
would ftrenuoufly have infifted, chat, all 
fequeftration of property being, by the 
fignature of peace, removed on both fides 
of the water, the Britith ftockholder in 
the French funds fhould be equally fe- - 
cured in his principal and intereft as the 
French ftockholder in, the Britifh funds, 
who, by repairing to the Bank of Eng- 
land, wonld receive his accumulated di- 
vidend, and his principal, undiminifhed. 
Initead of regulating the claims of each. 
nation by one common rule of juftice, 
the rights of the Englith proprietor have 
been left unprotected, and, as far as ap- 
pears to the contrary, he has been pluns 
dered without remonftrance or complaint 
on his behalf. Let it not be faid he des 
ferves his fate in having truafted his pro- - 
perty in a foreign and an enemy’s fund: 
the did what foreigners are encouraged to 
do in this country in the hour of peace, 
and he acted on the principle of the law 
of nations. But this tranfadtion alone is 
fufficient to.evince under what difadvan- 
tages the laft treaty of peace mult have 
Haz been 
