I apprehend that in the long run it will no doubt be necessary for France to have recourse to imposts, but these three years saved will scatter their beneficent influence over a whole century.

The French people feel the blessing of having a master and minister devoted to economy; economy has induced this monarch to trench upon his own splendor rather than upon his people's subsistence.
He has found in the suppression of a great number of places a resource for continuing the war without increasing his expenses.

He has stripped himself of the magnificence and pomp of royalty, but he has manned a navy; he has reduced the number of persons in his private service, but he has increased that of his vessels.

Louis XVI., like a patriotic king, has shown sufficient firmness to protect M.Necker, a foreigner, without support or connection at court, who owes his elevation to nothing but his own merit and the discernment of the sovereign who had sagacity enough to discover him, and to his wisdom which can appreciate him.

It is a noble example to follow: if we would conquer France, it is on this ground and with her own weapons that we must fight her: economy and reforms." It was those reforms, for which the English orator gave credit to M.Necker and Louis XVI., that rendered the minister's fall more imminent every day.