Gazette Of The United States

The National debt of France is said to be four thousand nine hundred and fifty two millions, one hundred and forty five thousand, sixty five livres—two hundred and six millions sterling.—[How much the National Assembly will lessen this sum, time alone must determine.] By a late statement it appears, that since the meeting of the National Assembly, their expences, and the debts of the Clergy, payment of which they have assumed, with incidental charges, amount to nineteen hundred millions of livres!.- Query, whether the national bankruptcy of France, supposing such an event possible, would not affect the neighboring powers, particularly Great Britain, whose debt is about the same?

Owing to the immense emission of Assignats by the National Assembly, it is said, that letters from London of 6 October, mention, that Exchange on Paris has fallen to twenty-four pence half penny sterling pr. Ecu, or little more than eight pence pr. livre tournois.