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Show to the amount of one hundred thousand gourdes, which gradually increased until 182-1, when it was one million three hundred thousand gourcles i and from that time to 183-1, when it ceased to be made, there bud been two million five hunch·cd and ninety-five thousand live hundred and fifteen gourdes, metallic value, in circulation. The imlJcrial necessities also rcctuircd, in 1826, the emission of treasury bills, and these together with tho alloyeJ. money form the current money of the country to this day, without counting the copper money called ~ilion [base money.] In 1843, at tbc downfall of President Boyer, the amount of treasury bills bad risen to three millions of gourdes, and since then the number hns still farther increased. The billons now bear the effigy of the Emperor. The piastre is worth about fifteen gourdes of our money. Such is a tolerably correct view of the Com· mcrce of IIayti, and of its monetary system. NAN'S LOT IN Lin:. 181 .Nnn'g Jl:ot in Eifc. A TAJ,E. DY HARRIET )!AltTIXEA.U. NAN was a workhouse girl b . bouse, and reared th '- orn Ill n. work· ere. Nob d what her other n o y could tell her arne was ; for nob d . mother was bro h o y know. Her ug t to tho workh before Nan's birth . ousc gate an hour , and the tink . . had travelled trnd d or With whom she b go on, saying h ack when sh h e would come esouldbesuffi' travel with h' . cwntly recovered to tm agrun. He di ing that tho poor d return; but, hear· creature had d. that he left h ICd, the same day er, and thinkin ' child would be a g, no doubt, that the 16 great inconve m. onee to him, he |