I have only to regret that you did not tell me whether the interests of a foreign country and a brilliant metropolis had encroached more upon the time due to academical studies than was proper.
As to the revolution which Mr.D---- calculates upon, I agree with him that a great change must take place, but not altogether, or even mainly, from the causes which he looks to, if I be right in conjecturing that he expects that the religionists who have at present such influence over the king's mind will be predominant.

The extremes to which they wish to carry things are not sufficiently in the spirit of the age to suit their purpose.

The French monarchy must undergo a great change, or it will fall altogether.

A constitution of government so disproportioned cannot endure.

A monarchy, without a powerful aristocracy or nobility graduating into a gentry, and so downwards, cannot long subsist.