Account should be rendered at the end of the year, of the employment of the granted sum. This is now the custom in England, with the House of Commons. The English nation has preserved all that the French nation has lost.
The states-general of Sweden have a custom still more honorable to humanity, which is not found among any other people. They admit into their assemblies two hundred peasants, who form a body separated from the three others, and who maintain the liberty of those who labor for the subsistence of man.
The states-general of Denmark took quite a contrary resolution in 1660; they deprived themselves of all their rights, in favor of the king. They gave him an absolute and unlimited power; but what is more strange is, that they have not hitherto repented it.
The states-general in France have not been assembled since 1613, and the cortes of Spain lasted a hundred years after. The latter were assembled in 1712, to confirm the renunciation of Philip V., of the crown of France. These states-general have not been convoked since that time.
[LIST OF PLATES—VOL. IX]
[PROPERTY.]
[PROPHECIES.]
[PROPHETS.]
[PROVIDENCE.]
[PURGATORY.]
[QUACK (OR CHARLATAN).]
[RAVAILLAC.]
[REASONABLE, OR RIGHT.]
[RELICS.]
[RELIGION.]
[RHYME.]
[RESURRECTION.]
[RIGHTS.]
[RIVERS.]
[ROADS.]
[ROD.]
[ROME (COURT OF).]
[SAMOTHRACE.]
[SAMSON.]
[SATURN'S RING.]
[SCANDAL.]
[SCHISM.]
[SCROFULA.]
[SECT.]
[SELF-LOVE.]
[SENSATION.]
[SENTENCES (REMARKABLE).]
[SENTENCES OF DEATH.]
[SERPENTS.]
[SHEKEL.]
[SIBYL.]
[SINGING.]
[SLAVES.]
[SLEEPERS (THE SEVEN).]
[SLOW BELLIES (VENTRES PARESSEUX).]
[SOCIETY (ROYAL) OF LONDON, AND ACADEMIES.]
[SOCRATES.]
[SOLOMON.]
[SOMNAMBULISTS AND DREAMERS.]
[SOPHIST.]
[SOUL.]
[SPACE.]
[STAGE (POLICE OF THE).]
[STATES—GOVERNMENTS.]
[STATES-GENERAL.]