much of Chillon’s ordinance as admitted the importation of our provisions, is continued for a time.  M. de Marbois, too, is recalled, I know not why or how.  M. de la Luzerne’s conduct will probably come under view only incidentally to the general question urged by the colony deputies, whether they shall not be free in future, to procure provisions where they can procure them cheapest.  But the deputies are disposed to treat M. de la Luzerne roughly.  This, with the disgrace of his brother, the Bishop de Langres, turned out of the presidentship of the National Assembly, for partiality in office to the aristocratic principles, and the disfavor of the Assembly towards M. de la Luzerne himself, as having been formerly of the plot (as they call it) with Breteuil and Broglio, will probably occasion him to be out of office soon.

The treasury board have no doubt attended to the necessity of giving timely orders for the payment of the February interest at Amsterdam.  I am well informed that our credit is now the first at that exchange, (England not borrowing at present.) Our five per cent, bonds have risen to ninety-seven and ninety-nine.  They have been heretofore at ninety-three.  There are, at this time, several companies and individuals here, in England, and Holland, negotiating to sell large parcels of our liquidated debt.  A bargain was concluded by one of these the other day, for six hundred thousand dollars.  In the present state of our credit, every dollar of this debt will probably be transferred to Europe within a short time.

September the 20th.  The combination of bankers and other ministerial tools had led me into the error (when I wrote my last letter), into which they had led most people, that the loan lately opened here went on well.  The truth is, that very little has been borrowed, perhaps not more than six or eight millions.  The King and his ministers were yesterday to carry their plate to the mint.  The ladies are giving up their jewels to the National Assembly.  A contribution of plate in the time of Louis XV. is said to have carried about eight millions to the treasury.  Plate is much more common now, and therefore, if the example prevail now in the same degree it did then, it will produce more.  The contribution of jewels will hardly be general, and will be unproductive.  Mr. Necker is, on the 25th, to go to the Assembly, to make some proposition.  The hundreth penny is talked of.

The Assembly proceeds slowly in the forming their constitution.  The original vice of their numbers causes this, as well as a tumultuous manner of doing business.  They have voted that the elections of the legislature shall be biennial; that it shall be of a single body; but they have not yet decided what shall be its number, or whether they shall be all in one room, or in two (which they call a division into sections).  They have determined that the King shall have a suspensive and iterative veto:  that is, that after negativing a law, it cannot be