the nation and to
the King."--Ibid. June 5, 1790. "M. Chambroud reads the letter of the
collector of customs of Lannion, in Brittany, to a priest, a member
of the National Assembly. He implores his influence to secure the
acceptance of his civic oath and that of all his family, ready to wield
either the censer, the cart, the scales, the sword, or the pen." On
reading a number of these addresses the Assembly appears to be a
supplement of the Petites Affiches (a small advertising journal in
Paris).]

[Footnote 2113: Moniteur, October 23, 1789.]

[Footnote 2114: A well-known writer of children's stories.--
21Tr.]

[Footnote 2115: Ferrieres, II. 65 (June 10,1790).--De Montlosier, I.
402. "One of these puppets came the following day to get his money
of the Comte de Billancourt, mistaking him for the Duc de Liancourt.
'Monsieur,' says he, 'I am the man who played the Chaldean yesterday.'"]

[Footnote 2116: Buchez and Roux, X. 118 (June 16, 1791).]

[Footnote 2117: See the printed list of deputies, with the indication of
their baillage or senechaussee, quality, condition, and profession.]

[Footnote 2118: De Bouille, 75.--When the King first saw the list of the
deputies, he exclaimed," What would the nation have said if I had made
up my council or the Notables in this way?" (Buchez and Roux, IV. 39.)]

[Footnote 2119: Gouverneur Morris, July 31, 1789.]

[Footnote 2120: Gouverneur Morris, February 25, 1789.--Lafayette,
"Memoires," V. 492. Letter of Jefferson, February 14, 1815.--Arthur
Young, June 27 and 29, 1789.]

[Footnote 2121: Morris, July 1, 1789.]

[Footnote 2122: Morris, July 4, 1789.]

[Footnote 2123: Mallet du Pan, Mercure, September 26, 1789.]

[Footnote 2124: Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790; November 22, 1790.]

[Footnote 2125: Dumont, 33, 58, 62.]

[Footnote 2126: Sir Samuel. Romilly, "Memoirs," I. 102. "It was their
constant course first, decree the principle and leave the drawing up
of what they had so resolved (or, as they called it, la redaction) for
later. It is astonishing how great an influence it had on their debates
and measures".--Ibid. I. 354. Letter by Dumont, June 2, 1789. "They
prefer their own folly to all the results of British experience. They
revolt at the idea of borrowing anything from our government, which is
scoffed at here as one of the iniquities of human reason; although they
admit that you have two or three good laws; but that you should presume
to have a constitution