this paper currency to satisfy in the first in|stance chiefly the demands made upon them by the Bank of discount, the great machine, or paper|mill, of their fictitious wealth.
The spoil of the church was now become the only resource of all their operations in finance; the vital principle of all their politics; the sole security for the existence of their power. It was necessary by all, even the most violent means, to put every individual on the same bot|tom, and to bind the nation in one guilty interest to uphold this act, and the authority of those by whom it was done. In order to force the most reluctant into a participation of their pillage, they rendered their paper circulation compulsory in all payments. Those who consider the ge|neral tendency of their schemes to this one object as a centre; and a centre from which af|terwards all their measures radiate, will not think that I dwell too long upon this part of the pro|ceedings of the national assembly.
To cut off all appearance of connexion between the crown and public justice, and to bring the whole under implicit obedience to the dictators in Paris, the old independent judicature of the parliaments, with all its merits, and all its faults, was wholly abo|lished. Whilst the parliaments existed, it was evident that the people might some time or other come to resort to them, and rally under the standard of their antient laws. It became however a matter of con|sideration that the magistrates and officers, in the courts now abolished, had purchased their places at a very high rate, for which, as well as for the
