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