Not only is there no certainty of there being bread at the bakers' during the coming week, but many know that they will not have money in the coming week with which to buy bread.

Now that security has disappeared and the rights of property are shaken, work is wanting.

The rich, deprived of their feudal dues, and, in addition thereto of their rents, have reduced their expenditure; many of them, threatened by the committee of investigation, exposed to domiciliary visits, and liable to be informed against by their servants, have emigrated.

In the month of September M.Necker laments the delivery of six thousand passports in fifteen days to the wealthiest inhabitants.

In the month of October ladies of high rank, refugees in Rome, send word that their domestics should be discharged and their daughters placed in convents.