I would desire, indeed, no more convincing evidence of the competency of the machinery of the hoards in specie paying countries to perform every necessary office of international adjustment, without any sensible aid from the general circulation, than the facility with which France, when but just recovering from the shock of a destructive foreign invasion, completed within the space of months the payment of her forced contribution of nearly millions to the allied powers, and a considerable proportion of the sum in specie, without any perceptible contraction or derangement of herdomestic currency, or even any alarming fluctuation of her exchanges.