FRANCE. 
France, which carefully a Fouanetl excluded the aliens of 
a a and fa _ from the controul of her revenue. It 
oe. new inftance of pe en and li- 
ede of (anes worthy the mind of an enlightened mo- 
narch. 
In the war between Great Britain and the:-American co- 
lonies, Lewis, by the advice of his minifter, heartily engaged ; 
“he afforded exeetual afliftance to the opprefied acrofs the At- 
itic. The principles = their oppofition to the mother- 
untry ways and under all fhapes ; every 
oo ne ee pr oduced 3 new arguments in favour of their 
common ty. ‘The French officers and-foldiers who had 
enlifted under their banner heard their r eafonings, felt the 
generous pea and at length became pe inftead of 
meére machines wrought into obedience by the force of fe- 
vere difcipline. It would be needlefs in this article to repeat 
took place in the French miniftry, and the fam 
“ren ndered memorable by the abolition of the jim cuftom 
> as it was calle 
€ 
the courts of juftice in 
whofe {pecial i iz nflance the Nass had been for ever done — 
began, to infti 
‘tutean economical reform ; he radily and cheerfully pena 
miffed 
Lewis was obliged to 
.on account of the seems of the public 
‘own example of prudence and economy introduced no public 
reformation in the: manners and habits of thofe who were 
d difmiffed oe 
-effeGing any material good. ted of the 
‘tages which the king had fattered Pofelf he <one ie 
‘drawn from this body, he was obliged'to recur to the ufual 
“to other impolitic and unpopular impofts. 
of Paris, however, refufed es regifter the edits ; and Lewis 
vas obliged to apply, as the ‘laft réfort, to his abfolute au- 
thority, and, by holding wh is oe “ a bed of juftice,”’ 
com wet | them’ to enrol the taxes. arliament, though 
defeated, were far from foe reer a on the day after 
the king had held ‘his bed of juftice, they entered a bal 
proteft againft the edi@; declaring, « that it had been 
regiftered_ againft their approbatio n and corifent, by the 
vattempt to carry it into execution’ fhou 
traitor, and condemned to the ‘galleys.”” 
the fovereigin was now oppo 
‘Paris was already overwhelmed with {éldiers ; and ina few 
days after the proteft had been made and promulgated, a 
‘French officer of the 
-adju ses 
The ee of 
at break. of day to the houfe of cee individual member 
the parliament, to fignify ¢ os s command, t 
he fhould immediately get into i: carriage and proceed to 
"Troyes, a city of Champagne, without iar -or {peaking 
‘to any petfon out of his ‘own. houfe* before hi ene 
- "Phe orders’ were all ferved at ‘the fame inftant ; 
the citizens of Paris could poffibly -be seeaaiaeed mens the 
‘sranfattion, their: magiftrates' and proteCtors were far on the 
ure, a | 
ofed to that of the parliament. - 
before - 
road to their place of banifhment. -  Thé éonfidenee ‘and af 
tachment of the people rofe'in proportion te the facrifices 
which iy exprofed inthe their behalf. -Their mu: 
cabinet, at the fa ame cn was et weak, n Gitenited, 
and flu€tuating ; and continual changes teok place in every 
e.. Nor was it ag in the capital that 
‘ liberty burit forth: . it blazed with. equa 
firength in the acne pelinment, and extended from 
the cone to every par the king er “Among oth 
inftances of this _ ae par lament of Gr sone safe 
a pa againft « Lettres de cachet,”’ eee nok cdicus en- 
ine of arbitrary a 3; and dec Jared the execution of them 
within: their jurifdiction, by any perfon, and under whatever 
authority, to be a capital crime. 
Previoufly to the banifhment of the parliament of Paris, 
ive rendered the reign of Cala fo great and 
ie ee 
In the year 1789, the flates-general were convened for 
the arrangement of public affairs : they ailumed the name of 
the pea Rangel and among its earlieft labours was 
that of forming a onftitution ood {pirit . difcon- 
tent and Siorgenization feemed to perva nee ranks ‘of the 
people. ot wait or leaders - known a tried 
talents : -_ red with a, i nf ongs that th hey os 
the nation 
that a kr ae church -had for a sei feries of years 
oma ead 
fan ath ome. 
mploy 
ane yee Rien fovereigns to arm 
pe of fuccefs excited feveral powers to coalefce, in 
order to'invade the country. The effe€t of thefe meafures 
rebounded on the: head of the pane ioe who was — 
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the moft aftonithing wictories. 
pain the ie of the public mind to meditate ex ~ 
ceffes, which would otherwife fearcely have been attempted ; 
and the — wee the ftorm,.refolved upon flight, 
but he was arr on road, and :brought back with 
Leonard ew vil the execrations of. the infuriated populate, 
‘Lo: void the. fente sees abdication he accepted.and. ratified 
2b a e the deputie es.of France, who. pis ‘pte- 
2 nt*on ee pe ee Different parties were-very.diferently 
affe€zed by: this ill-conduéted and unfortunate flight! of the 
king. A republican band had already -begun to “appear, 
and during the’ king's. abfence’ attempts were made to.in- 
duce the ‘public.at ‘lange to confider the-royal authorityas 
ich, at fat 
jo neceflary part of the confitution; .anidea wi 
