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■helped to cultivate in a country of rebellion ; and the crown of France, as I once heard it emphatically .obferved, was loft in the plains of America. The In the mean time, that fpirit of difcuiTing philofo^ phical fubjefts, which we have before mentioned, now fixed itfelf on politics. The people exclaimed againfl: the weight of taxes, and the extravagance of courtiers; they complained of peculiar exemptions from the general burthens, and of grievances which arofc from lettres-de-cachet, and other defpotic powers of the government. The King, defirous of yielding to the wiflies of the people, recalled Monfieur Neckar to the admi- niilration, and in conformity to his advice, his Ma- jcfty declai-ed his refolution of convening the dates-, general. But in order to regulate all matters rela- tive to the meeting of this important affembly, it was refolved to convoke the notables a fecond timq,. Among thefe, a diverfity of opinion appeared re- ipecling the comparative number of deputies to be fent by the Commons, and the two other orders 5 the cardinal point on which the whole fuccefs of the revolution eventually turned.* All the claiTes into * The laft affembly of the ftates-general, whicli had been held in France in 1614, was corapofed of 140 deputies from the order of the clergy, amjng whom were five cardinals, feven archbifhops, and 47