Rewards to various employes of the judicial
and administrative orders 18,000
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Total 135,482
If this sum is deducted from the gross receipts, there are left,
net 126,000
According to the statutes, the above is apportioned as follows:
Reserve funds in the Bank of Athens 6,000
Share belonging to Agent 40,000
Share-holders' part 80,000
333 francs, 33 c. per share.
Add to the 333 francs, 33 c., 50 francs interest and 25 francs in
reserve funds, and you will have a total of 408 francs, 33 c. per
share. Your money is then drawing nearly 82 per cent.
Such are the results, gentlemen, of the last campaign. Judge what
the future will be, when our country and our operations shall be
free from the foreign power which presses so heavily."
The King dictated this without consulting any notes, without hesitating
about a figure and without stopping to choose words. I would never have
believed that an old man of his age could have possessed so remarkable a
memory. He appended his seal to the three letters; it was his way of
signing. He read easily, but he had never found time to learn to write.
Charlemagne and Alfred the Great were, it is said, in the same
predicament.
While the Under-Secretaries of State were transcribing the letters for
the day in order to place them in the archives, he gave audience to
subaltern officers who had returned with their detachments, from the
day's duty. Each man seated himself in front of him, saluted him by
laying his right hand on his heart and making his report in a few words.
I swear to you that Saint-Louis, under his oak, inspired no greater
reverence among the people of Vincennes.
The first who presented himself was a small man, with a bad face; a fine
sample for the Court of Assizes. It was an islander from Corfu,
persecuted as an incendiary: he had been well brought up, and his
talents had advanced him. But his chief and his soldiers held him in no
great esteem. He was suspected of keeping for his own profit a part of
the spoils. Now the King was unreasonable on the subject of probity.
When he found a man in fault, he ignominiously thrust him out and
ironically said to him: "Go and make a magistrate of thyself!"