e, whether the people had best be omitted in the legislative or
judiciary department, I would say it is better to leave them out of the
legislative. The execution of the laws is more important than the
making them. However, it is best to have the people in all the three
departments, where that is possible.

I write in great haste, my Dear Sir, and have, therefore, only time to
add wishes for the happiness of your country, to which a new order of
things is opening; and assurances of the sincere esteem with which 1
have the honor to be, Dear Sir, your most obedient and humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

_Books, on the subject of Juries_.

Complete Juryman, or a Compendium of the Laws relating to Jurors.

Guide to English Juries.

Hawles's Englishman's Right.

Jurors Judges both of Law and Fact, by Jones.

Security of Englishmen's Lives, or the Duty of Grand Juries.

Walwin's Juries Justified.

LETTER III.--TO JOHN JAY, July 23, 1789

TO JOHN JAY.

Paris, July 23, 1789.

SIR,

The bearer of my letters (a servant of Mr. Morris) not going off till
to-day, I am enabled to add to their contents. The spirit of tumult
seemed to have subsided, when, yesterday, it was excited again, by a
particular incident. Monsieur Foulon, one of the obnoxious ministry,
who, as well as his brethren, had absconded, was taken in the country,
and, as is said, by his own tenants, and brought to Paris. Great efforts
were exerted by popular characters, to save him. He was at length forced
out of the hands of the Garde. Bourgeoise, hung immediately, his head
cut off, and his body drawn through the principal streets of the city.
The Intendant of Paris, Monsieur de Chauvigny, accused of having entered
into the designs of the same ministry, has been taken at Compiegne,
and a body of two hundred men on horseback have gone for him. If he be
brought here, it will be difficult to save him. Indeed, it is hard to
say, at what distance of time the presence of one of those ministers,
or of any of the most obnoxious of the fugitive courtiers, will not
rekindle the same blood-thirsty spirit. I hope it is extinguished as to
every body else, and yesterday's example will teach them to keep out of
its way. I add two other sheets of the _Point du Jour_, and am, with the
most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble
servant,

Th: Jefferson.

P. S. I just now learn that Bertier de Chauvigny was brought to town
last