The solid payments which the Assembly have declared to be redeemable are every hour falling to nothing, without a shadow of recompense.

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The situation of the nobility in this country is pitiable; they are under apprehensions that nothing will be left them, but simply such houses as the mob allows to stand unburned; that the small farmers will retain their farms without paying the landlord his half of the produce; and that, in case of such a refusal, there is actually neither law nor authority in the country to prevent it.

This chateau, splendid even in ruins, with the fortune and lives of the owners, is at the mercy of an armed rabble."].