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fion, I take to be near the truth ; it varies 

 from the public accounts given of the flate 

 of France in 1763 : 



REVENUE OF FRANCE, 1770. 



1. s. d- 



Tajlle 2,700,000 o 6 



Capitation 2,400,000 o o 



Land-tax on employments 600,006 o o 



The domaine 270,000 o o 



The coinage 160,600 o o 



Decimes 550,000 o o 



Tax on the Pays d'etat 600,000 o o 



General farms 5,140,000 o a 



Cher farms 2,000,000 o o 



Sundry other fmaller taxes 200,000 o o 



14,560,000 p o 



Of which about eleven, fome thought twelve, 

 millions, came into the King's treafury. Of 

 thefe taxes, the moft pernicious to the fub- 

 jedt are the taille and capitation, which 

 they all agreed raifed far lefs than a land- 

 tax ought to do ; and then it would do, if 

 adminiftered upon the principle of taking a 

 L 2 (hare 



