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Excerpt from The History of France, From the Earliest Times, Till the Death of Lewis the Sixteenth, Vol. 3: From the French of Velly, Villaret, Garnier, Mezeray, Daniel, and Other Eminent Historians; With Notes Critical and Explanatory
She began by confirming the judges and other magiilrate's in the pofi'eff on of their refpe�'tive pohs* and then dire�led' her attention to the means of affording relief to the people. But before {he diminifhed the receipts, {he wifely took care to le?'en the expenses. The fix thoufa-md Swifs that had been taken into pay, by Lewis the Eleventh, {he prudently difmifi'ed, and, after pa ing all that was due to them, fent them back, in an honourable manner, to t eir own country; the likewife difban-ded feveral companies of the national troops. By the adoption. Of thefe good and faintary meafures, Madame was enabled to relieve thexpeo ple, by remitting the lafl quarter of the taxes of the prefent year, at the fame time that {he promifed them a more confiderable diminution which was to take place as foon as proper regulations could be made with regard to the demefnes of the crown To forward this plan, all the numerous. Grants made by the late king were revoked, and orders were difpa'tched to the treafurers of the different provinces to reunite them to the royal domains.
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