For instance, Amsterdam offers 100 horsemen, Hamburg 100, Rotterdam 50, the Hague 40, Leyden 24, Utrecht 20, Dusseldorf 12 .-- The horsemen furnished are men enlisted for money; 16,000 are obtained, and the sum voted suffices to purchase additionally 22,000 horses and 22,000 equipments .-- To obtain this money, the prefect himself apportions the requisite sum among those in his department who pay the most taxes, at the rate of from 600 to 1000 francs per head.

On these arbitrary requisitions and a great many others, either in money or in produce, and on the sentiments of the farmers and landed proprietors in the South, especially after 1813, cf.

the "Memoires de M.Villele," vol.I., passim.] [Footnote 4144: Comte Joseph d'Estourmel, "Souvenirs de France et d'Italie," 240.

The general council of Rouen was the first to suggest the vote for guards of honor.

Assembled spontaneously (meetings are always spontaneous), its members pass an enthusiastic address.