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PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT.

PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN, as the same stood on the 1st of February, 1811.

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Total CHARGE for DEBT payable in GREAT BRITAIN

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Charges of Management

Annuities fallen in, or dead, and 1 per cent on Annual Grants

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Aids, &c.

UNFUNDED DEBT.

An Account of the UNFUNDED DEBT and DEMANDS OUTSTANDING on the 5th Day of January, 1811.

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On what Funds charged.

Amount Outstanding.

Bank

.£.3,000,000 0

Ditto c. 53.

Ditto..

Ditto.

3,000,000 0

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Supplies

1810

320,500 0 0

50 Geo. 3, c.

1.

Malt and Personal Estates.. 1810

500,000 0

Ditto

C.

2.

Supplies

1809

10,500,000 0

Ditto

C.

3.

Ditto

..........

1,500,000 0

Ditto

C.

69.

Ditto

3,611,700 0

Ditto c. 70. Ditto

Aids

1810.

14,854,100 0

c. 114.

Supplies

1811

1,000,000 0

38,286,300 00

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Treasury Bills accepted previous to and on the 5th January 1811, due subsequent to that day

939,505 2 8

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which now exists, or hereafter may

FOREIGN STATE PAPERS. exist in the government formed by

Proclamation of the Cortes. Don Ferdinand VII. by the grace of God, King of Spain and the Indies, and in his absence and captivity, the Council of Regency authorized ad interim, to all those who shall see and hear these presents, know that in the Cortes general and extraordinary assembled in the Royal Isle of Leon, it has been resolved and decreed as follows:

"The Cortes general and extraordinary, in conformity with their decree of the 24th of December of last year, in which they declare null and void the renunciations made at Bayonne by the legitimate King of Spain and the Indies, Senor Don Fernando VII. not only from his want of liberty, but from want of the essential and indispensable circumstance, the consent of the nation, declare that they will not acknowledge, but will hold for null and of no effect, every act, treaty, convention, or transaction of whatever kind or nature they may have been, authorized by the King, while he remains in the state of oppression and deprivation of liberty, in which he now is, whether in the country of the enemy, or within Spain; while his royal person is surrounded by the arms and under the direct or indirect influence of the usurper of his crown: as the nation will never consider him as free, nor render him obedience, until it shall see him in the midst of his faithful subjects, and in the bosom of the national congress

the Cortes. They declare at the same time, that every contravention of this decree shall be considered by the nation an act hostile to the country, and the offender shall be amenable to all the rigour of the laws; and finally, the Cortes declare that the generous nation whom they represent will never lay down its arms, nor listen to any proposition for accommodation of whatever kind it may be, which shall not be preceded by the total evacuation of Spain by the troops which so unjustly have invaded them, since the Cortes, as well as the whole nation, are resolved to fight incessantly, till they have secured the holy religion of their ancestors, the liberty of their beloved Monarch, and the absolute independence and integrity of the monarchy. The Council of Regency, that this may be known and punctually observed throughout the whole extent of the Spanish dominions, shall cause this to be printed, published, and circulated.

ALENGO CANEDO, President. J.MARTINEZ, Secretaries." J. ASNARES, Isle of Leon, Jan. 1st.

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To the Council of Regency.

"And for the due execution and fulfilment of the preceding decree, the Council of Regency orders and commands all the tribunals, justices, chief governors, and other authorities, as well civil as military, or ecclesiastical, of whatever class, or dignity, that they observe, and cause to be ob

served, this decree, and fulfilled and executed in all its part. JOAQUIN BLAKE, President. PEDRO DE AGAR,

GABRIEL CISCAR." Royal Isle of Leon, Jan, 5, 1811.

This is followed by another decree, relative to the Indians; setting forth, that the Cortes having considered the scandalous abuses, and innumerable oppressions practised on the primitive natives of America and Asia, and convinced that those worthy subjects deserve better treatment, orders all viceroys, presidents of audience, governors, intendants, and other magistrates, to take every care to prevent the said abuses, and to restrain every person exercising authority, civil or military, or any other person whatever, from injuring any Indian native, either in his person or property. This decree is to be transmitted to the different parts of America and Asia, and read three times in the parish churches, and explained to the Indians, in order that those good subjects may know how anxiously the Cortes watch over their protection and welfare.

IMPERIAL DECREE.

Palace of the Thuilleries, March 25, 1811. NAPOLEON, Emperor of the French, &c.

Upon the report of the commission appointed to examine the means proper to naturalise on the continent of our empire, sugar, indigo, cotton, and divers other productions of the two Indies:

Upon the presentation made to us, of a considerable quantity of beet-root sugar, refined, crystallized, and possessing all the qualities and properties of cane sugar;

Upon the presentation also made to us at the council of commerce, of a great quantity of indigo extracted from the plant woad, which our departments of the south produce in abundance, and which indigo has all the properties of the indigo in the two Indies:

Having reason to expect that, by means of these two precious discoveries, our empire will shortly 100,000,000, hitherto necessary be relieved from an exportation of for supplying the consumption of sugar and indigo:

We have decreed, and decree as follows:

Art. 1. Plantations of beetroot, proper for the fabrication of sugar, shall be formed in our empire to the extent of 32,000 hec

tares.

2. Our minister of the interior

shall distribute the 32,000 hectares among the departments of our empire, taking into consideration those departments where the culture of tobacco may be established, and those which, from the nature of the soil, may be more favourable to the culture of the beet-root.

sures that the number of hectares 3. Our prefects shall take meaallotted to their respective departments shall be in full cultivation this year or next year at the latest.

4. A certain number of hectares shall be laid out in our empire, in plantations of woad proper for the fabrication of indigo, and in proportion to the quantity necessary for our manufactures.

5. Our minister of the interior shall distribute the said number among the departments of the empire, taking into particular consideration the departments beyond the Alps, and those of the south, where this branch of cultivation formerly made great progress.

6. Our prefects shall take measures, that the quantity of hectares allotted to their departments shall be in full cultivation next year at the latest.

7. The commission shall, before the 4th of May, fix upon the places most convenient for the establishment of six experimental schools, for giving instruction in the manufacture of beet-root sugar, conformably to the process of the chymist.

8. The commission shall, also, by the same period, fix upon the places most convenient, for the establishment of four experimental schools, for giving instruction as to the extraction of indigo from the lees of the woad, according to the processes approved by the

commission.

9. Our minister of the interior shall make known to the prefects in what places these schools shall be formed, and to which the pupils destined for this manufacture should be sent. The proprietors and farmers who may wish to attend the course of lectures in the said experimental schools shall be admitted thereto.

10. Messrs. Barruel and Isnard, who have brought to perfection the processes for extracting sugar from beet-root, shall be specially charged with the direction of two of the six experimental schools.

11. Our minister of the interior shall, in consequence, cause to be

paid to them the sum necessary for the formation of the said establishments, which sum shall be charged upon the fund of one million, placed, in the budget of the year 1811, at the disposal of the said minister, for the encouragement of the manufacture of beetroot sugar, and woad indigo.

12. From the 1st of January, 1813, and upon the report to be made by our minister of the interior, the sugar and indigo of the two Indies shall be prohibited, and be considered as merchandize of English manufacture, or procceding from English commerce.

13. Our minister of the interior is charged with the execution of the present decree. (Signed) NAPOLEON.

Lisbon, April 3.

Proclamation of the Governors of the Kingdom of Portugal and of the Algarves.

"Portuguese!-The day of our glory is at last arrived; the troops of the enemy, in disgraceful flight, and routed on all points, rapidly disappear from the Portuguese territory, which they have infected with their presence. The Governors of Portugal rejoice with you on this happy event; and after humbling themselves in the presence of the Almighty, the first and sovereign Author of all good, they render due thanks to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent our Lord, whose wisdom established the bases of our defence; to his British Majesty, to his enlightened Ministry, and to the whole British nation, in whom we have

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