The French hope, that the number of foreigners who will resort to their country, after it shall be more settled, will abundantly compensate the loss of the emigrants.
[36] I was there in 1768, and again in 1783 and 1784, above four months. People of all nations are there seen in their proper habits; all languages are spoken; it is a free port, and the staple of the Levant trade, as well as of the West-Indian commerce.—There are regular vessels which sail monthly to Constantinople.
[37] Thousand must be read after all the following figures:
| Dunkerque | 80 | Besançon | 26 | La Rochelle | 16 |
| Rouen | 73 | Aix | 25 | Poitiers | 16 |
| Lille | 65 | Bourges | 25 | Auxerre | 16 |
| Nantes | 60 | Tours | 22 | Perpignan | 16 |
| Nismes | 50 | Arras | 22 | Chalons | 15 |
| Strasbourg | 46 | Limoges | 22 | Beauvais | 15 |
| Amiens | 44 | Abbeville | 20 | Riom | 15 |
| Metz | 40 | Verdun | 20 | Nevers | 14 |
| Caen | 40 | Arles | 20 | Boulogne | 12 |
| Orleans | 40 | Dijon | 20 | Bayonne | 12 |
| Rennes | 35 | Valenciennes | 20 | Soissons | 12 |
| Nancy | 34 | St. Malo | 18 | Angoulême | 11 |
| Montpellier | 32 | Beziers | 18 | Pau | 11 |
| Reims | 30 | Sedan | 18 | Alby | 10 |
| Clermont | 30 | Carcassonne | 18 | Alais | 10 |
| Troyes | 30 | Havre de Grace | 18 | Grasse | 10 |
| Grenoble | 30 | Moulins | 17 | Versailles | 10 |
[38] By a decree in November, 1789, no curate is to have less salary than fifty Louis per annum, not including his house and garden. Many of the French at present think that clergymen should be retained like physicians, and paid by those only who want them. By this means, they say, religious quarrels would be avoided; of all quarrels the most absurd, because nobody can understand any thing about the matter. "Personne n'y entend rien."
[39] The civil list mentioned in page 62, was according to the old establishment. In January, 1790, the king was requested to fix a sum for the civil list himself, and in June following he sent a letter to the National Assembly, demanding five and twenty millions of livres. It was decreed that instant.
[40] Salt, which was formerly sold at fourteen sols per pound, is now at a single sol. Tobacco is permitted to be cultivated by "whoever will."
[41] I saw many thousands of these men (from my windows) on their way to the Tuileries, early on the Friday morning; their march was at the rate of perhaps five miles an hour, without running or looking aside; and this was the pace they used when they carried heads upon pikes, and when they were in pursuit of important business, rushing along the streets like a torrent, and attending wholly and solely to the object they had in view. On such occasions, when I saw them approaching, I turned into some cross street till they were passed, not that I had any thing to apprehend, but the being swept along with the crowd, and perhaps trampled upon. I cannot express what I felt on seeing such immense bodies of men so vigorously actuated by the same principle. I saw also many thousands of volunteers going to join the armies at the frontiers, marching along the Boulevarts, almost at the same pace, accompanied as far as the Barriers by their women, who were carrying their muskets for them; some with large sausages, pieces of cold meat, and loaves of bread, stuck on the bayonets, and all laughing, or singing ça ira.
The French writers themselves say, "In all popular commotions the women have always shown the greatest boldness."
[42] The author of the Voyage de France says, "The actual division of France may appear to geographers as defective as the ancient one. Perhaps artists should have been more consulted. Then there would not have been shown in it so much of the spirit of party, which, in great assemblies, too often smothers the voice of reason, nor so many effects of the ignorance of political measurers, who lightly stride over barriers which nature has opposed to them, and who appear to have forgotten the necessity of communications."