Roux, XXII., 178. (Speech by Robespierre in
the Convention, December 2, 1792.)--Mallet-Dupan, "Memoires." I., 400.
About the same date, "a deputation from the department of Gard expressly
demands a sum of two hundred and fifty millions, as indemnity to the
cultivator, for grain which it calls national property."--This fearful
sum of two hundred and fifty millions, they add, is only a fictive
advance, placing at its disposal real and purely national wealth, not
belonging in full ownership to any distinct member of the social body
any more than the pernicious metals minted as current coin."]

[Footnote 4206: Buchez et Roux, XXVI., 95. (Declaration of Rights
presented in the Jacobin Club, April 21, 1793.)]

[Footnote 4207: Decrees in every commune establishing a tax on the rich
in order to render the price of bread proportionate to wages, also in
each large city to raise an army of paid sans-culottes, that will keep
aristocrats under their pikes, April 5-7.--Decree ordering the forced
loan of a billion on the rich, May 20-25--Buchez et Roux, XXV., 156.
(Speech by Charles, March 27.--Gorsas, "Courrier des Departements," No.
for May I5, 1793. (Speech by Simon in the club at Annecy.)--Speech by
Guffroy at Chartres, and of Chalier and associates at Lyons, etc.]

[Footnote 4208: Report by Minister Clavieres, February 1, 1793, p.
27.--Cf. Report of M. de Montesquiou, September 9, 1791, p. 47. "During
the first twenty-six months of the Revolution the taxes brought in three
hundred and fifty-six millions less than they should naturally have
done."--There is the same deficit in the receipts of the towns,
especially on account of the abolition of the octroi. Paris, under this
head, loses ten millions per annum.]

[Footnote 4209: Report by Cambon, Pluviose 3, year III. "The Revolution
and the war have cost in four years five thousand three hundred and
fifty millions above the ordinary expenses." (Cambon, in his estimates,
purposely exaggerates ordinary expenses of the monarchy. According to
Necker's budget, the expenditure in 1759 was fixed at five hundred and
thirty-one millions and not, as Cambon states, seven hundred millions.
This raises the expenses of the Revolution and of the war to seven
thousand one hundred and twenty-one millions for the four and a half
years, and hence to one thousand five hundred and eighty-one millions
per annum, that is to say, to triple the ordinary expenses.) The
expenses of the cities are therefor