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make a furrender of their charters and municipal documents. Provinces 
which poffefjed a right of taxing themjelves, renounced that right and their 
frates together; and the parliaments were annihilated as well as the pro- 
-wincial fates. All fees and taxes to ihe court of Rome for ever abblifbeds 
Some obferwations on the precipitancy, with vhich fixteen laws of the utmoft 
moment were hurried through in one night; as well! as on. the bad effe® of 
palfing laws by acclamation. Nobility and clergy in the provinces highly 
difconiented «with the condud of their delegates on the 4th of Auguft, in mak-~ 
ing Juch waft facrifices without their confent. Several members of the 
affembly likewise repent their orvn conceffzons, and become equally diffatisfied. 
Landed proprietaries at length take up arms in their cwn defence, and re- 
prefs the barbarous ravages of the peafantry. King appoints a new minif- 
try, with the approbation of the affembly. Diftrefed ftate of the public, 
through the failure of the taxes. Loans attempted and fail. Scheme of pa 
briotic contributions adopted. [# 
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‘King and queen fend their gold and filver plate to the mint. Patriotic dona: 
tions incapable of relieving the neceffities of the fate. Extraordinary tax 
decreed, under the name of a patriotic contribution, by which each man was 
to contribute one fourth of his annual revenue to the exigencies of the frate. 
Loud complaints and violent animofities excited by this partial tax. Em- 
barraffizents and difficulties which the national affembly experienced in fram- 
ing the new declaration of rights. Great debates upon the propriety or 
inexpedience of adopting the meafure. Declaration at length pafed and pro- 
mulgated. Saying of Mirabeau upon the fubjed. . Afembly divided into a 
number of fections or committees, to each of which is affigned fome fpecified 
part of the new tonfritution, on which it is to make a report. Grand 
qucftion arifes, What foare of authority it was fitting the king fhould pof- 
Ses in the new legiflature? This operates like a touchfton? in trying every 
mans principles, and compelling him to an open avowal of them. Affembly 
arranged, face io face, in two’ great hoftile divifions, apparently equal 
in ftrength and numbers. Violent contefts enfue, and are fo long cone 
tinued, that the people without, and at length the whole nation, become 
parties in them. State of the parties within and without, who tous, di- 
_ vided the affembly and the nation, King’s veto, or negative, with ig 
to the palfing of laws, one of the fubjects moft vielen and generally 
fated.  Populace of Paris interfere openly in he quefion of the veto} 
avhile the crowds in the galleries of the affembly become fo daringly auda- 
cious, as by hootings and revilings to endeavour to drown the voices, and by 
; infults and menaces to deter from giving their votes all thofe members whe 
| Supported the rights of the crown. Long lifts of members who were marked 
= for profcription, and deftined to be viims to the vengeance of the people; 
—«Opithlifved in Paris, and diftributed through every part of the kingdom. Po» 
; pular firmentation in Paris rifen anid to its higheft pitch. The ah 
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