In their puzzled situations, under two sovereigns, over
neither of whom they have any influence, they must act in such a
manner as (in effect, whatever they may intend) sometimes to betray
the one, sometimes the other, and always to betray themselves. Such
has been their situation, such must be the situation of those who
succeed them. I have much respect and many good wishes for M.
Necker. I am obliged to him for attentions. I thought, when his
enemies had driven him from Versailles, that his exile was a subject
of most serious congratulations- sed multae urbes et publica vota
vicerunt. He is now sitting on the ruins of the finances and of the
monarchy of France.
A great deal more might be observed on the strange constitution of
the executory part of the new government, but fatigue must give bounds
to the discussion of subjects which in themselves have hardly any
limits.
AS little genius and talent am I able to perceive in the plan of
judicature formed by the National Assembly. According to their
invariable course, the framers of your constitution have begun with
the utter abolition of the parliaments. These venerable bodies, like
the rest of the old government, stood in need of reform, even though
there should be no change made in the monarchy. They required
several more alterations to adapt them to the system of a free
constitution.
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