CONTENTS 
growing profperity of the couxtry. Remarks on the budget by Mr. Sheridan. 
Meffage from the king to both houfes of parliament relative to the difputes 
awith Spain. Addreffes voted unanimoufly. Motions for papers and debate¥ 
thereon. Vote of credit for a million. Committee on Americax claims. 
Cafe of Mr. Penn. Compenfation voted for the loffes of bis fanily. Penfion 
granted to Dr. Willis, Amendment of the tontine a@. Account of pro- 
ceedings relative to the flave trade. Proceedings relative to the trial of 
Mr. Haftings. Speech from the throne. Parliament prorogued. Summary 
, of the proceedings of the Irife parliament. : [82 
e He-A), P. VI. 
Proceedings of the national affembly after the new law bad tfablifbed fome 
order and fecurity in Paris. Apply clofély to the vaft mafs of public bufi- 
nfs upon their bands. Pelitical annibilation of the two firft orders of the 
fiate. New laws for regulating eleBions. Appellation of active citimenss 
to whom applied. Much trouble ftitl with the provinces, to bring them toa 
furrender of their peculiar rights and privileges. France at length divided 
into eighty-three departmcits, and the term Province expunged from the 
Janguage. Creation and organization of municipalities, Letters de cachet 
abolifbed. Gabelle, and others of the majt obnoxions taxes, abolifoed. Affem- 
bly enter into the intricate bufines of finance ; augment the pay of the army 
and ehablifh.a new bank. Grand Scheme for feizing the cftates of the clerg yo 
and offering them as a prefent to the nation, to ferve as a fund and fecu- 
_vity for the difcharge of the public debts, and ta anfwer other important 
purpofes. Some difficulties and obfiructions, which appear in tbe way of car- 
rying this Jcbeme into execution, are far out-balenced by the vaft advantages 
swhich it is capable of producing. Decree paffed, vehich declares all ithe 
ecclefiaftical eftates to be at the difpofel of the nation. Stipends allotied for 
the maintenance of parife priefts, Se. Difcontents rife to the highe? pitch 
among ft the clergy, many of the bifbops, and nearly all the chapters in the 
kingdom, prote/t againft the decree. Combination of the canons, and endea- 
wours ufed at Rome to draw the malediclions of the church upon the national 
afimbly. Great prudence and addrgs difplayed by the affembly in its tranf- 
ations with the court of Rome. Sovereign peniiff fecms to be fatisfied with 
their proteffations. France fwarms avith publications of every fort, it 
prof and in verfe, againft the natibnal affembly; its proceedings and defigns. 
Several of the parliaments attempt to be troublefome, and prote/t againjt the 
decrees of the affembly; but having loft all influence with the people, are 
obliged to fubmit reluctantly to their fate. Parliament of Bourdeaux coa- 
tinues longer in a fate of turbulence than any of the others, and endeavours 
to excite an infurrection in the feuth. Stories of plots and confpiracies uece/= 
. 9 to heep the minds of the people in conftant agitation. Virrious accufa- 
: ions againft the king’s minifters, and a greater number againf? the arifiocrates 
in general. Animuities fo violent betcveen the remaining nobles in the aj- 
fenbly, and the demacratical leaders, that frequent duels are the confequence. 
a Nation, 
