The clergy
accepted unconditionally. The _Noblesse_ accepted on conditions which
reduced the acceptance to nothing at all. The Commons considered this as
a refusal on the part of the Nobles, and thereupon took their definitive
resolution, to invite the other two orders to come and verify their
powers in common, and to notify them they should proceed with or without
them to verify, and to do the business of the nation. This was on
the 10th. On the 15th, they moved to declare themselves the National
Assembly. The debates on this were finished yesterday, when the
proposition was agreed to, by four hundred and odd, against eighty odd.
The minority agreed in substance, but wished some particular amendment.
They then immediately made the proposition relative to taxes, which I
enclose you, as this moment stated to me, by memory, by a member who
left the Assembly a little before the question, because there was no
opposition to the matter, but only to the form. He assures me, on the
information of another member who was present, that Target's motion
passed. We shall know, I think, within a day or two, whether the
government will risk a bankruptcy and civil war, rather than see all
distinction of orders done way, which is what the Commons will push
for.
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