Travaux de charite pour subvenir
  au manque de travail a Livres.  L s. d. 
  Paris et dans les provinces 3,866,920 161,121 13 4
Destruction de vagabondage et de la
  mendicite 1,671,417 69,642 7 6
Primes pour l’importation de grains 5,671,907 235,329 9 2
Depenses relatives aux subsistances,
  deduction fait des reconvrements
  qui out en lieu 39,871,790 1,661,324 11 8
          
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          Total 51,082,034 2,128,418 1 8

When I sent this book to the press, I entertained some doubt concerning the nature and extent of the last article in the above accounts, which is only under a general head, without any detail.  Since then I have seen M. de Calonne’s work.  I must think it a great loss to me that I had not that advantage earlier.  M. de Calonne thinks this article to be on account of general subsistence; but as he is not able to comprehend how so great a loss as upwards of 1,661,000_l._ sterling could be sustained on the difference between the price and the sale of grain, he seems to attribute this enormous head of charge to secret expenses of the Revolution.  I cannot say anything positively on that subject.  The reader is capable of judging, by the aggregate of these immense charges, on the state and condition of France, and the system of public economy adopted in that nation.  These articles of account produced no inquiry or discussion in the National Assembly.

[113] This is on a supposition of the truth of this story; but he was not in France at the time.  One name serves as well as another.

[114] Domat.

[115] Speech of M. Camus, published by order of the National Assembly.

[116] Whether the following description is strictly true I know not; but it is what the publishers would have pass for true, in order to animate others.  In a letter from Toul, given in one of their papers, is the following passage concerning the people of that district:—­“Dans la Revolution actuelle, ils ont resiste a toutes les seductions du bigotisme, aux persecutions et aux tracasseries des ennemis de la Revolution. Oubliant leurs plus grands interets pour rendre hommage aux vues d’ordre general qui out determine l’Assemblee Nationale, ils voient, sans se plaindre, supprimer cette foule d’etablissemens ecclesiastiques par lesquels ils subsistoient; et meme, en perdant leur siege episcopal, la seule de toutes ces ressources qui pouvoit, on plutot qui devoit, en toute equite, leur etre conservee, condamnes a la plus effrayante misere sans avoir ete ni pu etre entendus, ils ne murmurent point, ils restent fideles aux principes du plus pur patriotisme; ils sont encore prets a verser leur sang pour le maintien de la constitution, qui va reduire leur ville a la plus deplorable