FOOTNOTES:
[33] Some accounts make them five times as many.
[34] Before the Revolution, the French noblesse were so reduced in numbers that they did not much exceed twenty thousand at least of full-grown men. As they have been very cruelly formed into entire corps of soldiers, it is estimated, that, by the sword, and distempers in the field, they have not lost less than five thousand men; and if this course is pursued, it is to be feared that the whole body of the French nobility may be extinguished. Several hundreds have also perished by famine, and various accidents.
[35] This was the language of the Ministerialists.
[36] Vattel.
[37] The first object of this club was the propagation of Jacobin principles.