164 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 What is here called favings mull not im- 

 mediately be fet down as fuch j becaufe, in 

 the fir ft place, it is certain, lhat every ar- 

 ticle, reckoned in the revenue, does not 

 come nett into the exchequer : fecondly, 

 here are no extraordinaries, which, upon 

 moft cf the articles, run very high, and 

 efpecially thofe which have any concern 

 with the Court : thirdly, here is nothing 

 allowed for foreign fubfidies, which, though 

 an irregular, are a certain expence. Upon 

 the whole, we may determine, that the or- 

 dinary revenue is nearly, if not quite, ex- 

 hauiled, and that coniequently the refources 

 of France, for future wars, muft depend on 

 the declenlion of debts on extraordinary 

 taxes and on the fums which may be 

 borrowed when the occafion comes. 



Upon the general flate of France they re- 

 marked, and, I think, with judgment^ 

 that the kingdom was pofleifed of much lefs 

 real wealth and power than foreigners ima- 

 gined-, but much greater refources than any 

 foreigner could fuppofe : but thefe refources 

 could only be brought in queftion by a new 

 fyftem of management in ' the article of 

 taxation, by throwing a greater ftrefs upon 

 her marine, by taking every meafure to pay 



oft 



