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have received, in. Imitespolared st the head of the
financial department of this great and powerful
kingdom ; and the first thing I have to de.ire, and
which I commawd as your rirst duty, is, that you
-exercise your authority in the first inetsnce, in the
second instance, and in the last instance, for the
relic! V sem dirtressed people. I believe you will
be led.to this ositiosal service by yaws own ioch..
nation, and I know that it will be the greatest
blesiing you can bestow on the people, and the
?oft iniportont service you can render to your King.
My sentiments are very different from what they
pen formerly. Thoughtless prodigality has hitherto
been the bitterest enemy of my kingdom—
the most rigid and deliberate economy must now
lie the studied friend of its relief. Necessitous
perainsony itself sow becomes a cordate! virtue ;
my Coen Isnot set the prominent example; and I
tier the commensurate support of all my subjects
deriving advantage from the State, and credit sod
Confidence from their public employment., will
follow. Retrenchment of expenses, to such map
uitude have they accumulated, will alone, if rigo-
rously pursued, prove the happy relief. I
positively prohibit you from proposing any sea
ripens*, however soothing hitherto to my pride,

...however useful to the riblic service, because,
pew expense, if suffered, I know the neat day
would produce a proposition for a crew impost.
" My Ministers and Officers intrusted with the
lieetesseutent of the finance., make no scruple of
Ilesillogivitk nem hardens the shoulders of my poor
Ott fry Se meet their extravagance and indemnify
*Mill!fiyikl idle disborsemeotr. Frees ph. pig-
alga 'three burdens they sindiuolikiywept
almossehres, and all their relations and friandak My
viistreased people know and feel this, 4auld..this is
ao additional canoe of SOT! garroter* !fibrin.
These Ministers and Officers betray:4(i 'Mat,
when they dissipate the
.public respimpani if they
were their own private ,oreperty. , Their droparsr
-moats ere trusts. like air OreregativeilisMie promo-
tion of public gned, the"protectithe My people,
'and the security of their property eifilevery depar-
ture trout these principles constitute" a crime.
" Hence arose that hatred to aetherity, which,
in the adasiristestiee of Cardinal Muswin, prodoeed

such direful effects. Hatred to; 'Authority
is natural is the affairs of ti ~(
nt , . ;' fiat in this
41iiiibff
rase hatred was not the onlysegyini the rtbellioo:
it was she inordinate taxes. the. Argos' enaction of
...hit+ him/lett the ire. Hence the•cartee of that
rebellion, and, perhaps, every rebellion' in every
ithereountry, where the people are so aggrieved
vedeppreMpl► by. lite divestiture of the fruits of
413rir hard laboons, On the contrary, moderation
nod Joel possoctios. in return, give. subjects a real
Interest lb thlt State. end make tbeividstiises for
it;, ji/pi t4Y ; and I 'need nos reasinl you what
jey,Plifis„end the Provinces...manifested when the
ifftartee a 1... . - .

; a tax which had oat may
withoit• marnsoriowthlt otith pried
%tom* it hid not blet*ltilid witblHit
;snc.pittg,itecemity ; and the repeal:or:o4Ni Tex
Note driedde gratitude, sod insaitald rejoisimis.
.b sire the administration kept faith with the

people in talus is cast the time pledged. Perseus
to public eibirfoyntents ore always fond of hawing
he.go means at their disponi, the simple knowledge
of,which crates ',minion profusion end thoughtless

mapeadituve. Tburert upon the 6nt impression.
moontain'in *tight and size; bat they never
'paint to reflect.' that every abstracted mole-hill
diminishes the original solidity. and undermines
the ',Nile poodevosity. The.tremendous fall pro.

lissote:ainoree•Ohit ustenislosent ; *ley sadslendy
• fisil4llllll.lol6ll Oast be replaced; bet the means,
lifillsoriklhot se easily devised. Then; for.
isiivelf.lisd:proligacy, they substitute
Mfefertnne44.4p:timeo, and *Liege, that the
.Ageog's revenues nrisis • wee impede necessary k
poseisk for his daily necessities, aid the payments
.:4flais debts ; sod thus, tunler'tikiisinign cover of
piise Ittag's wows, they impose their own indemnity,
,IC4it this ditTerenceouly, that they have the am-
-siesty.to shelter their own isidensuity.under the prop
Sissteisie of the King's wants; and wine they devise
ism imposts, they place the King's wants first,
sod the payments of debts, namely, debts ti 24.
• erected by themselves. last.. The same of the King
is their • talisman fur every imposition, however
.gram, end dies they successfully obese his meted
name, and defraud the people to cooperate their
own tepidly.
" I have so often heard of these stiVerinnes
else times, that essatiction and experience make me
the more particular in endeevooriog to render this
*abject familiar to you, that you may avert the af-
fliction - visited •

•nd tortnentrd

which has so often •
use. Another paint is, tksat these prateacreu,
two tits limes ore always magaitred. whatever the
real orate ; but newer have been found se great and
overattslmiag as at this time. Heretofore, instead
stringing recourse to wive and prudent ecoanoty.
e.'.itlr haw been 'richly granted, in ondtiphed or-

uni-
fortnly begiuniog; with necessity, perpetually
enditig with necessity ; ant consonantly, when any
public gambit rem to embellished. or any edi-
fice to he repeirod, sr say palace to be newly orna-
mented, of the afflatuses of the limes no more
was heard, because omiesitty, the root of the evil,
was still growing and carefully nursed is its growth.
It is but too certain that the pretext times are
very deplorable. my people destitute and bereaved
of *Boost every comfort. and my kingdom is actually
groaning wider a loud of debts and toes. which
the necessities of my people, however loyal and will.
irg my people themselves, disqualify them from
meeting. Hitherto. no measures have been taken
for the plytnent of these debts, or for the relief of
gay prnple. But the continuance et peace enables
you, Sir, to enter seriously on this magnificent
work ; and I enjoin you inceisantly to persevere iat
accomplishing the glory of it. Remove every ob.
stacle.'—your King invests you with power so to do;
and your King will religiously mad imperatively
waist you. This is the fishmeal situation:—Tire
State is indebted to the State; it is the King, the
party who has nothing but the gratuitous will of
his people, who is indebted to all the national ere.
dittos ; and it is upon the people, principally, that
is to say, upon the party that has bot bare neees-
aeries wherewith to preserve existence. that the
money there is occasion fur must be levied. foiling
all other resources. to clear your Kieg and the
State. You see, Sir, this is a most magnifleent
work—is to be accomplishedand—you must proceed
by inceiesio, deliberate, and resolute degrees in
your rivers of retrenchment and @Mot of !co.
essay. Accompliehed it must be, and yesullllllllllo
wi~•analeel Imp...glory to rildir Mos—
glary fit areerople—glory to the natiostaliaM Mirl
greater gtety to yourself; and the more io,"biiiause
it is not possible to devist iorty other method of
satisfying the demanding rich without iiivoising your
Lag is. sew digits, sod wittiest Min farther beaching
es my already too impoverisliall people. ft is an
old disease. which detnaorls slow, bat gentle.and
firm remedies. Year King is the Father of reasee,
sod you, the Compludler-Getseral of the Flames,
we become the Physician. Frugality will pvialuee
soastifold more money than any new imposts *filch
can possibly be deviled. Your King not, atilt.
prefers this mode of relief. but enjoins it; leklupwo
that his own and the motional establisbmonauseerall
excessively overgrown, and that great retratiebmeute
are not only necessary, but must be madle. He Its
convinced that the grandeur of a King of France
cannot be shaken by the diminution of hisalficers;
that, st blind periods, pensions have barn multi.
plied to excess ; and that it is better to give little
ill'hie''erell-endowed favourites. than to exact a
ireit heed from his exhausted people: dime fa-
vourites, if attached to their King, will willingly
submit to retrenchments, mid save hie bilinear sad

feelings. Yete•may tell them, that your King is
now ashatmodiffehe magnificence that formerly pre.
railed in his ; that your prcderemol,
,dept
not advise the retreecbment of expellees, which limy
said were necessivy to support the caleihr netbe
throne, because they were sterol', afreiatstt title
murmurs and resentments of the Courte4i, and
unhesitatingly despised the complaints of the pro-
viocee, presuming that the provioces were tee distant
foe any complaints to be properly understood.
Your King is so fully convinced of this truth, that
when he is told that no person complaiss,.* is
.most sure that complaints are made.
" You must make choice of a proper• Nam for
promulgating your new regulations ; 'Leg
will agree to them; he it unwilling to gfirt genie
for murmuring amongst those who Huron's(' him;
but be will not balance, no, aot for p moment. be.
lateen them and his people. Yoe, alonerieer, knew,

that your King does not love opposition ; but he
will rather endure to be opposed a hundred times
than suffer the commission of ot.e act of iujuslice
against his people. Act openly wish your Kiog ; if
you do sot, he will soon perceive it, sod he will be
silent : he will not *hew his resentment, because be
is master of himself; but the levs he shews liia re•
seamen% the stronger it may be. Although M.
de Louvois had deceived your King but @ace, hod
he lived he would have been irrevocably ruined.—
Your King loves to be obeyed, but he loves still
more to be sincerely deslt with. The rectitude of
his own mind makes him very austere Agana the
avarice of others be is su fir flora pisaittrug Minis-
ters to enrich thetual yes by rojortylabfe mean% that
he will not suffer them to amass wealth by Mays the
most law/el: he expects that his ►Miutsters shall be
attentive only to his service, as wholly devoted in
public good, and, in the end, they will loos no-
thing by it. Yee. Si►, have great salaries, god still
gutter petquisiies; it ern be agreeable to your
King that you do not make use of the laser. Lt
times like these, it is very difficult to hove alsoey
pass through sues halide without being soiled by
the tench, and, in your siteation. disietertitedoess
is a virtue, a much the treater us it is praciistd

" Your reputation, Sir, is at prtieluA' very high,
and I conjure you to support it. You will in vain
regulate your own action's by the striels*lsassoilr, if
your relations, your friends, and yaw servants are
venal. Acts of bribery are not lipir concealed
from the public; there are too Mg Persons who
are interested in discovering them, but the blame
will always fall upon him who has the power of
preventing and of punishing them. if he punishes
them late, 1:r will be suspected of having, con-
trary to his inclinations, sacrificed his creatures to
his own reputation and earl ; and this suapiciou
will be often just, for men in power are generally
what the 'malignant public imagine them to be.
There is one habit of corruption lets odious than
the other, but equally suopected, and equally
hateful to yourKiog—it is the facility with which
Ministers yield to recommendations. The great
sell their interest to their dependants—l,enee,
'buses of every kind; and shameful bargains for
favours, at first concluded plivattly, afterwards
carried on with most licentious freedom.
" Your King calls this borgaissing for the blood
of his people, mud yoe' trill acquire your King's
additional confidence if you apply a decisive re-
medy to this growing evil of so much enormity.—
To effect this, all that is necessary is, to preserve
your own integrity, and to act with firmness. The
Ladies most, openly countenance dependants; they
are the open brokers of corruption. Do you ee-
solve to be deaf to all these solicitations, even to
those of your King; and I chug* you constantly
to refuse me whenever a compliance may be a draw-
back on public good. Thus, refuse your Sing, aid
you will aecusloas the Ladies and the Courtiers to
tennis; sod if they appeal to me, I will instruct
them how to receive suck refusals.

" The inequality of assessments laid upon the
Clergy, has given great uneasiness to your King,
end it will give him great pleasure to remove the
complaints of the poor-ecelesiasties, sod to silence
the railleries of libertines. This abuse, without
violent methods, may be reformed at the •Pnreeeh...
tog assembly, by confertialt with some of the
Bishops ; the Archbishop se Nis will assist you,
and you know he has greuiliterest amongst the
wisest pert gj his Order. Tigre are many of my
Ministers with whom your Kiog think', is the
affairs of your deportment, you ought neither to
consult nor to unite. He advises you to give them
no umbrage, but to live with thee without de-
peados ice, without *eliciting . Ikea Lilian& hi
shunning their kindness. Some, if them have
great rectitude of mind. onfergrigd' affection for
the State, and abhor all violent measures, but they
have dangerous friesds..;:roissy .King therefore re-
commends that yoweitiiiiid-yoar comidmarbas
-,:•,••
them.
" The public have long complained, and with
greet truth, of• confederacy between the Comptrol-
ler-Gametal, sad the Farmers of the Reveune, as one
of
the greatest evils of my kingdom. It itomtain,
that the Comptroller-Germsl favours them but too
often, and that they, on the other hand. d4sflrlM
into false measures by extraordinary soppljil,ivilie
Farmers of the Re venue. in oar present diekpaishmee
a great resource for the State, but they aattieatlat•bb
allowed undue privileges, because they.iiiNirkeel
money. They are not to be depended epos; *ware
the dross of the nation ; their very virtues are iota
rested and venal, and they are only rich and happy
by the public calamity they will always sell their
.assistance at as extortionate rrite...they are de-
, routing wolves, who would swallow w the whole
kingdom, if abandoned to their averiiirk,.. rat Parrs
their magnificence of living is greatly ettolled,
because it circulates so much money ommig troika-
.
men ; but in use pr aural their ' are
great, and are clamorously, Lut just y'coMialained
of: it is, therefore, highly proper to have a vigilant
corrective eye upon their conduct, and never to re-
fuse any petitions which may be 'addressed to you
spinet them.
"Your King Rorticularly recommends to your
mike the ocheaseseavried on with his warrants at
the Royal Treasure. It is shameful, to say no worse.
that the poor only should be irregularly sad ill
paid. By this foul pructice.your King is made a
rubber of those very peemasa, wham be asee to
be a benefactor. '
"It may not be utrusefel aramerk, that
ten have e natural aversion to their auccessors, and
seldom place confidence iu any man who is worthy
to 611 their place. This jealousy is very prejudi-
cial to your King's service : let it be your special
ere to have noire bet men of merit shout you.
"When you commence the duties of your office,
•be edrefol ins amiNg God hearing every thing your.
scif, and be not apprehensive that your King will
ever be offended by asking and following good ad-
vier. To perform your duty in its utrinat extent
is of the first laud only importunee to you. Whe-
ther good be done by the motives of your own
mind, or the suggestions of another, it matters

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