If this could be done, it would be a solid and a permanent system of revenue, arising out of one that is unsolid and transitory. Any thing like want of faith with the creditors would, however, not only be disgraceful and dishonourable, but would reduce such numbers to beggary, and ruin credit so completely, that the nation would be lost for ever. The only mode of putting an end to this hope of our enemy, and to war, at once, will be by shewing that enemy that it is quite out of his power to augment our debt; but, until a method shall be adopted by us which is PRACTICABLE AND EASILY UNDERSTOOD, such a mode of salvation will not be believed by that enemy. To conclude the whole, then, it appears, that the French were not in a greater error in their Liberty and Equality, than in thinking that the abolition of public expences would enrich the people; and that all that is expended by a state is robbed from the industrious. Those ideas of the Revolutionists must vanish, when we see how Britain has preserved her debts, expenditure, and prosperity-that France was miserable and poor in proportion, as she affected Spartan simplicity; and that, if there be any return towards a state of prosperity, it is since she abandoned all the plans on which the Revolution proceeded during the first six or seven years of its existence. END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. INDEX. (A single i. refers to the first volume, ii. to the second, and iii. to the third volume.) A. ADHESION, address of, its object, i. America, Revolution of, its influence on the public Page. 451 of Great Britain, ii. Aristocracy, see Nobility. 462 Articles, nineteen constitutional ones added to the 575 Artois, Count of, his reception by the Parliament of 90 &c. i. Assembly, National, its constitution, character, its composition and functions, i. 1, 60, 281, 314, 320, 327, 494 615 that of the British Parliament, i. $54 Assembly, Aristocracy, natural, defined, ii. its political character, ii. its principles applied to the Constitution Army, of France, its constitution and conduct, i. 59, 384, Declaration of the Rights of Man, i. 443 480 481 Page. Assembly, Municipal, its composition and functions, i. 619 of Notables, i. Assemblies, Popular, considered, i. of the Departments, their composition and 345, 428 functions, i. 609 of the Districts, their composition, &c. i. 612 Bailliages, the conduct of, in 1789, described, ii. Barbaroux, complains of anarchy, iii. Barrere, his Declaration, iii. Basis, of Territory, considered, i. of Population, i. 451 12 12 331 333 335 342 521 89 110 12 470, 492-614 493 658 of Contribution, i. Bases, of Legislation, the three compared, i. Bayle, an opinion of his, ii. Bed of Justice, held by the King at Versailles, i. British Laws, the imperfection of them, i. compared with the New Constitu- Bureaus, of Peace and Reconciliation, described, i. 645 Burke, (Rt. Hon. Edmund) Review of his Work, iii. 54 C. Calonne (Mons.), his conduct, i. Chivalry, descriptions of, i. Christie (Mr.), Review of his Work, iii. -Church-estates and property, Reflections on, ii. 1-39, 68, 92-98 Establishments, see Ecclesiastical Systems. Citizens, Citizens, Active, defined, i. Passive, defined, i. of Paris, their conduct on the 5th and 6th of October 1789, i. Civic Education, described, ii. Clergy, of France, the dissolution of their corporate Page. 602 603 22,70 25 289 34 35 inadequately represented in the National taxed previously to the Revolution, ii. the new arrangement of them examined, ii. 1, 45, Confiscation, of Church Property, examined, i. 533, ii. 7, Constitution, of Great Britain, its friends and enemies compared, ii. described, ii. 28, 51 460 470, 492-614 i. ii. compared with the New Constitution of (the New) of France, investigated, &c. 493 329, 424, 467, 494, 520, 531, 542, 575 Criminal Tribunal, its composition and power, i, 652 D. Dauphiné, the States of, their conduct, &c. i. 48 Declaration, Declaration, of the Rights of Man, ii. Page. 245, 352 critical observations on them, ii. 119, 248, Division, political, of the people of France, i. 604 territorial, a detail of it, i. 577 Democracy, as subject to war as Monarchy, i. 561 Democrats in England, their letters to the French, iii. 43-45 E. Ecclesiastical Confiscations of France, examined, i. 495 ii. Ecclesiastical Systems considered, ii. 101, 108, 489, 497, Erskine (Lord), Extracts from his Observations on War with France,' iii. 113 Established Religion, Montesquieu's opinion of them, ii. Establishments, the judicial, considered, i. 380, 453, 540 amined, i. 115 F. Factions, character of, ii. Family Tribunal, described, i. Farmers suffer greatly by the Revolution, iii. Finance, the system of, proposed by the National As- 473 646 30 406 and Territory incapable of representation, i. 428 sembly, examined, i. Finances of England and France compared, ii. Foreigners, their character defined, i. 503 603 For |