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Very favourable and exaggerated accounts of the wealth and resources

of Russia have recently been circulated in Paris. They were mere forerunners of a proposition, which partly gives the lie to them, for a loan of seven millions and a half sterling, which the Russian Government is anxious to obtain, ostensibly for the use and on the security of Poland. Two Polish gentlemen, crea- tures of Russia, have arrived in Paris; and it is believed that they have succeeded in negotiating a fire per cent.loan at 85/. for 1001. The Crown lands and confiscated domains of Poland figure as security to the lenders. As it is universally believed that scarcely any of this money will be devoted to the uses for which it is said to be borrowed, it is supposed that the Czar contemplates active proceedings in Turkey.

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