en I wrote this I quoted from memory, after many years had
elapsed from my reading the passage. A learned friend has found it and
it is as follows:--

[Greek: To ethos to auto, kai ampho despotika ton beltionon, kai ta psephismata
hosper ekei ta epitagmata, kai ho demagogos kai ho kolax hoi autoi
kai analogon. kai malista d' hekateroi par' hekaterois ischuousin, hoi
men kolakes para tois turannois, hoi de demagogoi para tois demois tois
toioutois.]

"The ethical character is the same: both exercise despotism over the
better class of citizens; and decrees are in the one what ordinances and
arrets are in the other: the demagogue, too, and the court favorite, are
not unfrequently the same identical men, and always bear a close
analogy; and these have the principal power, each in their respective
forms of government, favorites with the absolute monarch, and demagogues
with a people such as I have described."--Arist. Politic. lib. iv. cap.
4.

[106] De l'Administration des Finances de la France, par Mons. Necker,
Vol. I. p. 288.

[107] De l'Administration des Finances de la France, par M. Necker.

[108] Vol. III. chap. 8 and chap. 9.

[109] The world is obliged to M. de Calonne for the pains he has taken
to refute the scandalous exaggerations relative to some of the royal
expenses, and to detect the fallacious account given of pensions, for
the wicked purpose of provoking the populace to all sorts of crimes.

[110] See Gulliver's Travels for the idea of countries governed by
philosophers.

[111] M. de Calonne states the falling off of the population of Paris as
far more considerable; and it may be so, since the period of M. Necker's
calculation.

[112]

Travaux de charite pour subvenir
au manque de travail a Livres. L s. d.
Paris et dans les provinces 3,866,920 161,121 13 4
Destruction de vagabondage et de la
mendicite 1,671,417 69,642 7 6
Primes pour l'importation de grains 5,671,907 235,329 9 2
Depenses relatives aux subsistances,
deduction fait des reconvrements
qui out en lieu 39,871,790 1,661,324 11 8
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Total 51,082,034 2,128,418 1 8

When I sent this book to the press, I entertained some doubt concerning
the nature and extent of the last article in the above accounts, which
is only under a general head, wit