VIII. Ordnance (G).. IX. Army (H)—Ordinary Services, viz. For Regulars, Fencibles, Militia, Invalids, and Volunteer Corps 8,813,816 2 6 Commissary in Chief X. Loans, Remittances, and Advances to other Countries (I), viz. 1,050,000 O O This includes the sum of £425,303 8 3 for Interest, &c, paid on Imperial Loans. 85,196,564 4 25 PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT. PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN, as the same stood on the 1st of February 1811. Charges of Management.. ......... At 4 per cent.............. At 5 per cent..... .... Annuities fallen in, or dead, and I per cent. on Anrmal Grants Total CHARGE for DEBT payable in GREAT BRITAIN 12,686,800 0 16,856,684 13 11 343,133,040 16 6 101,199,990 5 63,715,296 2 2 1,836,703 17 606,416,127 17 46 20,206,141 2 1,498,757 19 234,115 8 41 12,197,682 O 34,133,696 9 72 UNFUNDED DEBT.. An Account of the UNFUNDED DEBT and DEMANDS OUTSTANDING on the 5th Day of January 1811. Warrants for Army Services.. .... Treasury Bills accepted previous to and on the 5th January 1811, due subsequent to that day. .... "The Cortes general and extraordinary, in conformity with their decree of the 24th of December of last year, in which they deelare 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 which now exists, or hereafter may exist, in the government formed by 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 generrous 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. ASNARES, 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, served, this decree, and fulfilled JOAQUIN BLAKE, President. 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. 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 of the two Indies: Having reason to expect that, by means of these two precious discoveries, our empire will shortly be relieved from an exportation of 100,000,000, hitherto necessary for supplying the consumption of sugar and indigo: We have decreed, and decree as follows: Art. 1. Plantations of beet-root, proper for the fabrication of sugar, shall be formed in our empire to the extent of 32,000 hectares. 2. Our minister of the interior shall distribute the 32,000 hectares among the departments of our empire, taking into considération 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. 3. Our prefects shall take measures that the number of hectares Palace of the Thuilleries, allotted to their respective depart~ NAPOLEON, Emperor of the - 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: . ments shall be in fall 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 |