"XV. Society has a right to demand from every public agent an account of his administration.
"XVI. Every society, if the guarantee of the individual rights is not assured, and the distinction of the several powers ascertained, is without a constitution.
"XVII. The right of property being inviolable and secured, no person can be deprived of his, but when the public necessity, legally established, shall evidently demand it, and then only on the just and previous assurance of indemnification."
In Sept. 1789, the National Assembly resolved, it is said, to make the following Reductions from the Annual Income:
| Livres. | ||
| 1. | The household of the king, queen, and princes | 8,000,000 |
| 2. | The foreign department | 8,300,000 |
| 3. | The war ditto | 8,900,000 |
| 4. | The marine ditto | 2,000,000 |
| 5. | The finance ditto | 1,000,000 |
| 6. | The pensions, besides the reductions made before | 6,000,000 |
| 7. | The intendants and delegates | 1,800,000 |
| 8. | The registers and farmer-general | 2,600,000 |
| 9. | The mint | 1,700,000 |
| 10. | The premiums and encouragements to trade | 600,000 |
| 11. | The royal gardens | 36,000 |
| 12. | —— —— library | 62,000 |
| 13. | —— —— stud, to be suppressed | 800,000 |
| 14. | The contingencies | 2,500,000 |
| 15. | The fund reserved for lotteries, to be suppressed | 173,000 |
| 16. | The plantation of forests | 817,000 |
| 17. | The clergy | 2,502,000 |
| 18. | The charities | 5,511,000 |
| ————— | ||
| Livres 53,301,000 | ||
| Sterling £. 2,220,875 |
And I understand that two public banks have been established; one consisting of about 205 millions of livres, and the other of near 273 millions.
Criminals are now permitted to employ counsel, bring evidence, and have the benefit of a trial by jury, in France.
CHAP. XIX.
An Account of several Insurrections, Mobs, and Riots in France.—Of an Attempt to seize and kill the Queen.—The King, Queen, &c. go from Versailles to Paris.—An Account of several other Riots.—The King, a wise and prudent Man.