You will be in a privileged
climate, and will have had an enviable escape from this. The _Notables_
are not yet separated, nor is their treasonable vote against the people
yet consolidated; but it will be. The parliament have taken up the
subject, and passed a very laudable vote in opposition. They have made
it the occasion of giving sketches of what should be a bill of rights.
Perhaps this opposition of authority may give the court an option
between the two. Stocks are rising slowly, but steadily. The loan of
1784 is at thirteen loss; the _caisse d'escompte_, four thousand and
seventy-five. The Count de Bryenne has retired, and M. de Puysegur
succeeded to his place. Madame de Chambonois (sister of M. de Langear)
is dead of the small-pox. Pio is likely to receive a good appointment in
his own country, which will take him from us. Corn is likely to become
extremely scarce in France, Spain, and England. This country has offered
a premium of forty sous the quintal on flour of the United States,
and thirty sous the quintal on our wheat, to be brought here between
February and June.
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