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Bouree of embarrassment to the Imperiai governnient aries from the disordered 6tate of its finances. Only last spring, the government was compelled to contract a loan of eighty niillions of florins, and already, so far from meeting the interest on. this loan there is said to be a deficit in the treaury, for the past year of sevenbeen niillions more, as accounted for in the following manner.42)
Difference between ordinary expenditures revenne. 8,000,000
For aiding counter-revolution in Italian states. 3,000,000
Loan to the Sonderbund in Switzerland. 1,000,000
Snppressing insurrectionary movements in Poland* 2,000,000
Gaining a majority in the Hungarian Diet 3,000,000
Total 17,000,000
Àt present it is said that the Emperor has sent one of the chief persons in the financial department to Rnssia,43) for the purpose of raising there, if possible, a loan of fifty niillions of ronbles. **J The expenditures of the governnient this year will be enormous, as the daily expenses of the troops in Lombardy alone is estimated at one hundred thousand florins.
Since the date of my last despatcn no ontbreak bas taken place in Milari. Eight or ten of the nobles, supposed to have been most inflnential in the insur-rection have been arrested and sent to the fortresses of Laybach and Graetz. Some persons are of the opinion, that the Milanese bave been intimi dated by the immense military force qnartered among them: whilst others assert that they have been deterred from acting, by some assurances whach they have received from the agente of the governnient, that their condition will be ameliorated. The excitement among the popnlation, however, seems stili to exist. On the 6th Inst a grand fète took place, in honor of the successfnl movements of the
42) Queste cifre di Stiles non si prestano ad essere considerate seriamente. Eppure, data la segretezza che in questo periodo circondava le finanze austriache, sarebbe stato quasi un miracolo se Stiles avesse avuto informazioni esatte. È tuttavia interessante che le fonti di Stiles sottovalutassero il deficit del bilancio statale per il 1847. Secondo una fonte questo deficit ammontò a 50,000,000 di fiorini; vedi Statistisches Handbuchlein fur die Òsterreickische Monarchie., a cura di CARL CZOERNIG, Wìen, 1861, pp. 118-119.
43 ) L'ufficiale della Hofkammer cui Stiles si riferisce era il Regierungsrat Moriz Pranzi- Incaricato della sua missione nel gennaio 1847, Franz! arrivò a St. Petersburg il 5 febbraio.
44> La cifra di 50,000,000 rubli, citata da Stiles, non è esatta. Ma giacché la mis­sione del Franz! era destinata al più rigoroso segreto, è significativo che i diplomatici stra­nieri fossero tanto informati circa questi negoziati. Nella sua relazione, non datata, a Franzl, il barone Kiibeck spiegò: a Die radikale Revolution, welche ihren Kampf vorziiglich gegen Osterreich riehtct, bea lei die finnnziellen Schwierigkeiten tur ih re Zwecke aus, und biethel alle Mittel und Wege auf, den òsterr. Staatskredit zu erschiittern, die aus diesem Kredite abgeleiteten Mirtei der Bedeckung des Slaatsaufwandes in dem Augenblicke zu verkiimmern, in welchem dieser Aufwand durch die von der Partheyorganisierten revolulio-naren Bewegungen gesteigert wird, und selbst unsero Kredits-Institute insbesondere die Nationalbank anzugrelfen. Un ter diesen Umstandcn haben sich S. Durchloucht der Fiirst Staatskanzler... an die kais. russ. Regierung im engsten Vertrauen gewendet, um, wo mòglich, von derselben ehi Darlehen von 25 bis 30 Miilionen Gulden [1 rublo = 1.5 fio­rini] in Sii ber zn erhaltcn , Kiibeck a Franzl, s.d., F.A.W., Gebeimprotokollsaklen, Kon-volut Russisches Darlehen.