Limoges_- - - 22|_Beauvais_ - - 15
_Amiens_- - - 44|_Abbeville_- - 20|_Riom_ - - - 15
_Metz_ - - - 40|_Verdun_ - - - 20|_Nevers_- - - 14
_Caen_ - - - 40|_Arles_- - - - 20|_Boulogne_ - - 12
_Orleans_ - - 40|_Dijon_- - - - 20|_Bayonne_ - - 12
_Rennes_- - - 35|_Valenciennes_ 20|_Soissons_ - - 12
_Nancy_ - - - 34|_St. Malo_ - - 18|_Angouleme_- - 11
_Montpellier_ - 32|_Beziers_- - - 18|_Pau_- - - - 11
_Reims_ - - - 30|_Sedan_- - - - 18|_Alby_ - - - 10
_Clermont_ - - 30|_Carcassonne_- 18|_Alais_ - - - 10
_Troyes_- - - 30|_Havre de Grace_18|_Grasse_- - - 10
_Grenoble_ - - 30|_Moulins_- - - 17|_Versailles_ - 10]

The nation gains five millions sterling _per annum_ by the reduction of
its expences, and by not having any unnecessary clergymen to
maintain,[38] and the forfeited estates of the emigrants are estimated
at immense sums.[39]

[Note 38: By a decree in November, 1789, no curate is to have less
salary than fifty _Louis_ per annum, not including his house and garden.
Many of the French at present think that clergymen should be retained
like physicians, and paid by those only who want them. By this means,
they say, religious quarrels would be avoided; of all quarrels the most
absurd, because nobody can understand any thing about the matter.
"Personne n'y entend rien."]

[Note 39: The civil list mentioned in page 62, was according to the
old establishment. In January, 1790, the king was requested to fix a sum
for the civil list himself, and in June following he sent a letter to
the National Assembly, demanding five and twenty millions of livres. It
was decreed that instant.]

The heavy taxes on salt (_la gabelle_) and on Tobacco are suppressed,
and those two articles are allowed to be objects of commerce.[40]

[Note 40: Salt, which was formerly sold at fourteen _sols_ per
pound, is now at a single sol. Tobacco is permitted to be cultivated by
"whoever will."]

"No city in the world can offer such a spectacle as that of Paris,
agitated by some great passion, because in no other the communication is
so speedy, and the spirits so active. Paris contains citizens from all
the provinces, and these various characters blended together compose the
national character, which is distinguished by a wonderful impetuosity.
Whatever they will do is done." Witness the taking of the _Bastille_ in
a single day, which had formerly withstood the siege of a whole army
during three and