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    Article CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Contemporary Letters On The French Revolution.

Jdirabeau and his OAVU party as universally rejected it . Mirabeau declared , and the Democrates received the declaration Avith loud and repeated applause , that the final formation of the executive power should be the last act of the Assembly .

They have also avoAved their intention of confining the regular troops to the frontiers of the kingdom . The troubles do not diminish in the provinces and it is likel y that the declarations of the Assembly will only serve to augment themas every

, article of force contained in the new law had already been decreed in the Loi Martiale , and the other articles only serve to bind the hands of the executive power . They will IIOAV find that their declaration "that all taxes are to be paid till IICAV ones

are established in their place , " is too late . They have been continuall y flattering the people Avith the idea of being relieved from all their burthens , and more especially the Gabelle . . It is not likely that the people will now submit to a tax which even in the plenitude of royal authority was

collected ahvays with difficulty , and sometimes opposed Avith force , and Avhich in their address to the Provinces , they promise to abolish . It is true their committee of finance have assured them that they have a plan to replace the Gabelle readbut in

y , the meantime that tax is to be collected . Monsr . Neckar goes or sends to the Assembly on the 12 th of March . His friends deny that he means to propose the circulation of paper money , but it is not the less believed .

I believe that you take in Monsr . Gorsas , hut if you do not , I send yon a deliberation of the Common Council of Paris which attacks the Caisse D'Escompte , I cannot say what will be its effects or IIOAV it will be received , as it is a new and unexpected

stretch of their authority . The Common Council is composed of all the violent and not the most virtuous of those who began the revolution . They have a degree of poAver over the people , and wish to exercise an authorit y Avhich the different districts

uread , and oppose .. They at present exercise the functions of the Police ; they have been attacked with permitting ( if not of favouring ) the dail y attempts to alarm and mflame the people . To appease these murmurs they have found it necessary to imprison the authors of a libel imputing a new

conspiracy to M . de Besenval , and to fax up papers promising to punish all those concerned in a report as false as infamous . The accounts from Domingo are various . The first says that they are Avilling to acknoAvledge themseh'es still subjects to

the King of France , to continue paying the taxes , to Avait till the National Assembly have finished the constitution , and to adopt or reject it as they please ! The 2 nd opinion , and that which the Comte D'Entraigues said be had from the Garde des Sceaux Avas

that they had declared themselves absolutel y and purely independent . The Democrates have formed their resolutions already . They Avill admit the protestations of Domingo , as it is not uue partie intregrante of the kingdom and refer the discussion of the question till Domingo has refused the constitution Avhen compleated . But Avhat in the mean time is to become of their

friends , the tAvelve deputies for that Island Avho Avere made at Paris to increase the majority of the Democrates , and Avho can no longer have pretentions to vote unless the National Assembly declare themselves not the representatives of the people , but a convention of citizens Avho govern the

empire by the power they have acquired ? I mentioned to you sometime since the forged address of the city of Bourdeaux , the true one found its Avay to the bar of the Assembly yesterday . It mentions the misery that oA'erwhelms its inhabitants , the

destruction of commerce , and the total ruin which must ensue if the commerce of negroes is abolished . The address mentions that in 1788 , 1419 move vessels arrived in their port than in 17 89 . The state of the parties Avithin the Avails continues nearly the same , the Impartiaux gain no ground . The xVristocrates do not look on them as friends and the Democrates treat them as

declared enemies . . The discontent is certainly more general and people noAV speak and publish Avhat they think . The Militia begin to add to all the vices of indiscip line and insolence , the debauch and riot of a licentious soldiery ; 400 Grenadiers belonging to one of the districts

after dining together and drinking went arm in arm to the Luxembourg preceded by their music and all the rabble of Paris , and Avould not be satisfied till Monsieur had seen them pass by . The municipalities already look upon themselves as the chiefs

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Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 1
SONNET. Article 1
THE WILSON MANUSCRIPT CONSTITUTION. Article 2
AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF MASTER AND FREE MASONS. Article 7
AIMEE. Article 11
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY. Article 11
LINES Article 14
THE ANTI-MASONIC VICAR Article 15
TO A SNOWDROP Article 17
"MILKLAT "—THE CITY OF REFUGE. Article 18
ODDS AND ENDS OF WIT AND HUMOUR. Article 19
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 24
ORATION Article 26
THE OLD FOLKS' PARTY. Article 28
BENEFIT MANKIND. Article 32
CURIOSITIES OF THE POST OFFICE. Article 32
THE WOMEN OF OUR TIME. Article 34
BRO. DANIEL COXE—THE FATHER OF FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA. Article 36
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 39
HALF-WAY DOIN'S. Article 42
GODFREY HIGGINS ON FREEMASONRY. Article 43
THE SITE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE DISCOVERED. Article 44
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 46
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Contemporary Letters On The French Revolution.

Jdirabeau and his OAVU party as universally rejected it . Mirabeau declared , and the Democrates received the declaration Avith loud and repeated applause , that the final formation of the executive power should be the last act of the Assembly .

They have also avoAved their intention of confining the regular troops to the frontiers of the kingdom . The troubles do not diminish in the provinces and it is likel y that the declarations of the Assembly will only serve to augment themas every

, article of force contained in the new law had already been decreed in the Loi Martiale , and the other articles only serve to bind the hands of the executive power . They will IIOAV find that their declaration "that all taxes are to be paid till IICAV ones

are established in their place , " is too late . They have been continuall y flattering the people Avith the idea of being relieved from all their burthens , and more especially the Gabelle . . It is not likely that the people will now submit to a tax which even in the plenitude of royal authority was

collected ahvays with difficulty , and sometimes opposed Avith force , and Avhich in their address to the Provinces , they promise to abolish . It is true their committee of finance have assured them that they have a plan to replace the Gabelle readbut in

y , the meantime that tax is to be collected . Monsr . Neckar goes or sends to the Assembly on the 12 th of March . His friends deny that he means to propose the circulation of paper money , but it is not the less believed .

I believe that you take in Monsr . Gorsas , hut if you do not , I send yon a deliberation of the Common Council of Paris which attacks the Caisse D'Escompte , I cannot say what will be its effects or IIOAV it will be received , as it is a new and unexpected

stretch of their authority . The Common Council is composed of all the violent and not the most virtuous of those who began the revolution . They have a degree of poAver over the people , and wish to exercise an authorit y Avhich the different districts

uread , and oppose .. They at present exercise the functions of the Police ; they have been attacked with permitting ( if not of favouring ) the dail y attempts to alarm and mflame the people . To appease these murmurs they have found it necessary to imprison the authors of a libel imputing a new

conspiracy to M . de Besenval , and to fax up papers promising to punish all those concerned in a report as false as infamous . The accounts from Domingo are various . The first says that they are Avilling to acknoAvledge themseh'es still subjects to

the King of France , to continue paying the taxes , to Avait till the National Assembly have finished the constitution , and to adopt or reject it as they please ! The 2 nd opinion , and that which the Comte D'Entraigues said be had from the Garde des Sceaux Avas

that they had declared themselves absolutel y and purely independent . The Democrates have formed their resolutions already . They Avill admit the protestations of Domingo , as it is not uue partie intregrante of the kingdom and refer the discussion of the question till Domingo has refused the constitution Avhen compleated . But Avhat in the mean time is to become of their

friends , the tAvelve deputies for that Island Avho Avere made at Paris to increase the majority of the Democrates , and Avho can no longer have pretentions to vote unless the National Assembly declare themselves not the representatives of the people , but a convention of citizens Avho govern the

empire by the power they have acquired ? I mentioned to you sometime since the forged address of the city of Bourdeaux , the true one found its Avay to the bar of the Assembly yesterday . It mentions the misery that oA'erwhelms its inhabitants , the

destruction of commerce , and the total ruin which must ensue if the commerce of negroes is abolished . The address mentions that in 1788 , 1419 move vessels arrived in their port than in 17 89 . The state of the parties Avithin the Avails continues nearly the same , the Impartiaux gain no ground . The xVristocrates do not look on them as friends and the Democrates treat them as

declared enemies . . The discontent is certainly more general and people noAV speak and publish Avhat they think . The Militia begin to add to all the vices of indiscip line and insolence , the debauch and riot of a licentious soldiery ; 400 Grenadiers belonging to one of the districts

after dining together and drinking went arm in arm to the Luxembourg preceded by their music and all the rabble of Paris , and Avould not be satisfied till Monsieur had seen them pass by . The municipalities already look upon themselves as the chiefs

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