Contemporary Letters On The French Revolution.

will be enabled to dispose of the whole of the revenues of the church , Avhich amount to 150 millions per annum . From this you must deduct 15 millions per annum of debt , ancl the immense losses their property have sustained by the abolition of

feudal rights , ancl Avhich is calculated at a third of their income . The charges of the law will not be reimbursed at the price Avhich they cost their present possessor , but that for which they were originally sold by the

CroAvn . The amount of the charges of the laAV is estimated , at the lowest , at 300 millions , but I believe it to be stated Avith more reason at 500 , since the interest paid by the royal treasury for the purchase-money

is 9 millions , and the charges produced 1 h , 2 , and at the utmost 3 per cent . Till happier times shall alloAv the State to pay her debts , their capital is to be considered as a debt of the nation , and they are to receive an interest of 5 per cent .

This Avill make an annual addition to their expenditure of 16 millions , to which must be joined the expenses of the new judiciary system , which , calculated at the loAvest , amounts to 6 millions . It is thus that they proceed , daily increasing their expenditures ancl their debtsand

dimin-, ishing the means of payment . You may be assured that the recei pts of the royal treasury diminish instead of augmenting . The instant any part of the livre rouge is delivered to the DeputiesAvhich it is

, thought it Avill be , you shall have a copy . The sum for secret service money inscribed on the latter pages amounts to 80 millions . The assignments on the lands of the Church Avill be forced into general circulationand issued under one general form

, from the Caisse d'Extraordiiiirce , bearing the mark of each particular municipality . Within the Assembly the chiefs of all parties seem to have lost their power . If any particular set of men hold together it is those AVIIO are personally attached to

the united banners of Neckar ancl La Fayette , but their force is not sufficient to sirpport either the one or the other . Mirabeau is heard no more ; to-day he Avill possibly again attempt to speak on the subject of the King ' s letter , as the decree Aihich that demands to have revoked Avas certainly levelled at him .

The present Ministry more than tottei on their seats , the Democrates loudl y accuse them of opposing by every means in their power , the completion or effects of the decrees of the Assembly . The Archbishop of Bordeaux ( Garde

des Sceaux ) governs Neckar Avith absolute authority . His abilities are not called in question , but his affection for the resigning principles is much doubted . The Minister of the War Department quits his employment if the plan adopted

by the Council for the reform of the army is rejected ; the number of men is not to be lessened , but the young regulars are to be suppressed , and their battalions added to the older . All the field officers will thus be saved , and the formation of each

regiment consist of one Colonel and tAvo Lieutenant-Colonels , the function of Major to be exercised by the eldest Captain of each battalion , each regiment to be of three battalions , two ahvays in state of actual service , and the third to consist of veterans and recruits , Monsieur de la Luzerne and M . de St . Priest have

neither power , credit , or reputation . But the puppets are tired of a situation Avhich exposes them to continual animadversions , ancl Avhere they are only allowed to remain because they do not knoAV how to supply their place . They wish but for a failpretext to give in their dismission , and

it is more than probable that that is at no great distance . Should the leaders of the democratic party fail , as they certainly Avill , in obtaining the repeal of the decree forbidding any member of the Assembly to accept of any employment of the CroAvn , I do not believe they have in VICAV any whom they wish to place at the head of affairs .

Ihe assignments on the property of the Church , the organization of the munici pality of Paris , had diverted the public attention from Monsieur Neckar ; his friends gave out that it was uncertain if ever he Avould quit Paris , hoAvever

necessary to his health , but that he Avas determined only to quit Avith life the place that he held . But au affair that has occupied the Assembly for these two days , in which he is inculpated , may convince him that not only the Assembldo not his

y approve plans , but that they suspect his integrity and his intentions . The Assembly on the 14 th and 22 nd of January , had jjassed tivo decrees . By the first it Avas decreed that no