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.
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