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reaped the advantages of his guilt , and he may serve as one more lesson to all men of distinguished rank , who put themselves at the head of a popular faction , that they will , when they are no longer necessary , be reduced to a level with those whose distinction they have been tho means of .

I send you a Memoire of M . Neckar , who , thus , from time to time , recalls himself to public obliquy , and produces himself to notice , that every step he descends to contempt and obscurity may be apparent to the world entire .

The state of their finances are , at this moment , more embroiled than everso small is the amount of the declarations for la contribution patriotique , that you may he assured the ensuing week will be witness of a decree authorizing the Municipalities to tax each individual according to his apparent expense , and giving him redress only on the declaration and

justification of his whole property . "Les Assignats" are again prorogued to an indefinite term , yet their necessity is every day more apparent . To obtain even small sums of money , it is first necessary to purchase at a loss of 2 per cent ., Billets of

200 livres for those you possess above that sum ; you must then purchase money at the loss of 4 per cent ., which , with the interest on the assignats , amounts to near six ; nor has any effects been perceived from the large sums of money the

Fedoraration was to bring to the capital . The only money that now circulates is that which is employed to secure Mons . Baillie his election as Mayor of Paris ; and , however extraordinary it may appear , the sums expended proceed either from the Royal

Treasury or from the purse of M . Neckar . Paris daily is losing its inhabitants , and all the superior classes threaten to quit it . The accounts of the Deputies of the Provinces is not more favourable . In

many districts the peasants have consented with reluctance to remit , till after the harvest , the repartition of lands which they demand . Every manufactory is destroyed , and the Commandant of the Deputies of Lyons assured me that all its richest inhabitants were securing their

property ; that during four winters they had struggled to maintain their manufactories , hut that now they could expect nothing but total ruin , and consequently

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must be at the mercy of a starving pop ^ . lace . It appears , by a calculation of the Committee of Finances , that the propert y of the National Debt is divided hi the following manner : half to Paris , a fourth to the

provinces , and the other fourth to forei gners . The journey to Paris has opened the eyes of the Provinces , not only in regard to the National Assembly , but to tho Republican projects and domineering principles of the City of Paris , they begin

to imagine they have been sacrificed to her safety and to wants , and they already berin to distinguish the Nation of Paris and the Nation of France . The popular entertainments have passed not only quietly , but even sadl y ; joy

seemed the lot of few . After a dinner , that was given by one of the districts to the deputies , they proceeded in form through the principal streets ; an old officer , carrying the King ' s picture , was elevated on a kind of triumphal car . They obliged all they met to pull off their hats , and cry , " Vive le Roy !"

The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.

THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .

BY REV . GEO . OLIVER , D . D . CHAPTER XIV . THE REFERENCE TO THE EURESIS OF THE MYSTERIES . { Continued from page 81 . )

THE Euresis was accompanied by a brilliant light , to convey , in a more striking manner , the idea of a resurrection , oi return from death to life ; and accordingly we find in the anaglyph before us , no lotus flowers , no burning torches , no altar tomb

with its recumbent figure , or other funereal emblems , which might tend to throw a reasonable doubt over the correctness of our interpretation . In some instances , indeed , the point within a circle is said to have been esteemed an emblem of death , * but it very rarely