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Retrofpective view of the affairs of France towards the clofe of the year 1789s 
State of Paris. Sudden and frequent revolutions in the government and 
conflitution of that metropolis. Body of electors appointed for the prefents 
to fupply the place of the former regal and municipal authoritiese Laudable 
condu of the electors, and great benefits derived from it, in preferwing 
Some degree of order and peace in that city. Incidents which led to their 
being expofed to imminent danger, through the caprice and the fufpicious 
difpofition of the people. Seemingly Ps ebaa itt of this change of temper; 
they had the fortune previoufly to fecure a retreat, by inducing the people to 
ele‘# 120 deputies, who were to be their temporary fuccefors. The divi- 
fion of Paris into fixty diftri@s, for the better conducting of the late elec- 
tions for deputies to the ftates, productive of many confequences favourable 
to the revolution, as well as to the eftablifbment of form and order. de 
each of the/e diftrias general affemblies were held, whofe refalutions carried 
the effect of laws, and the moft fovereign alts of authority for the govern- 
ment of the diftvitl, were difpenfed by its éwn adminiftration. Thus, Paris 
was rather to be confidered as a confederacy, compofed of fixty independent 
demacratical republics, than as one commonwealth. A few démagogues 
affime the lead in all thefe diftriGs, and being fupported by the lower orders, 
foon oblige people of charafer to abfent themfelves from thefe afemblies. 
Inflances of the noife, diforder, and tumult, which prevailed at thefe meet- 
ings. New republican clubs, who have their appendant focieties in every 
7 town of France, foon become rulers of the mobs and demagogues of — 
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