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Htniseretres-grandedespeuples. Toutes les lettres , qui viennent des provinces , enparlent, 

 soit des intendants , soit des receveurs generaux ou autres personnes , mesme des eVeques." 

 Telle e'tait done a cette epoque du regne de Louis XIV la situation de la Gascogne , 

 du Poitou, du Dauphind, et probablement de beaucoup d'autres provinces." 



40) In the reign of Charles the Second no provincial town in the kingdom contained 

 thirty thousand inhabitants 5 and only four provincial towns contained so many as ten 

 "thousand inhabitants. Ike Jdslory . of England from the accession of James the Second 

 'by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (Leipzig, 1849) Vol. I. pag. 330. 



41) The real cause of the Dutch invasion of 1688 was financial. The Prince of 

 "Orange had found that the ressources of Holland, however considerable, were inadequate 



"to sustain him in his internecine rivalry with the great Sovereign of France The 



Prince came and used our constitution for his purpose: he introduced into England the 

 "system, of Dutch finance. The principle of that system was to mortgage industry in order 



to protect property The system of Dutch finance , pursued more or less for nearly 



//a century and a half, - has ended in the degradation of a fettered and burthened mul- 

 titude." B. DISRAELI, Sybil, or the two nations (Leipzig, 1845) pag. 20 sq. Sed vide, 

 quae tamquam ad haec ipsa monet MACAULAY, History of. England, vol. I. pag. 284. 

 Tbere can be no greater error than to imagine that the device of meeting the exigen- 

 cies of the state by loans was imported into our island by William the Third. From 

 //a period of immemorial antiquity it had been the practice of every English government to 

 'contract debts. JFhal the Revolution introduced, teas the practice of honestly paying them." 



42) Cf. MACAULAY, 1. L Vol. I. pag. 306, 352, 355, 357, 374. Lord MAHON, 

 History of England from the peace of Utrecht to the peace of Fersailles 17131783. 

 (Leipzig, 1854) Vol. VII, pag. 325 sq. 344 sq. 



43) VIBGILIUS, Bucol. I. vers. 25. 55) TEMPLE, 



44) TEMPLE, Observ. pag. 44. 56) // 



45) TEMPLE , Observ. pag. 130 , coll. pag. 124. 57) * 



46) // // // 141. 



47) TACITUS, de Germania, Cap. XVI. 



58) TACITUS 



59) TEMPLE, 

 60) 



61) 



Observ. pag. 171. 

 // 174. 

 // 172. 



de Germania, Cap. 



Observ. pag. 180. 

 // " 181 

 // // 259 



XIX. 



sq. 

 sqq. 



48) TEMPLE, Observ. pag. 137 sqq. 



49) * ' 142. 



50) a ,, , 125 sq. 

 5t) // ,, 167. 



52) a , 128 sq. 



53) // // 96. 



54) ir i, 158 sqq. 



66) //He (Temple) paid court to William at Windsor, and William dined with him at 

 "Sheen." MACAULAY; Sir William Temple; in Critical and historical Essays (Leipzig, 

 1850) Vol. Ill, pag. 237. 



67) Vide: NederlandscJie Staatscourant , 1855, n. 169. 



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62) Cf. annotatio mea n". 6*. 



63) TEMPLE, Observ. pag. 266. 



64) r // 270, 276. 



65) * 279. 



