_Lyon_ contains 160 thousand persons. _Marseille_, the most populous, in proportion to the size, of any city in Europe, contains, in a spot of little more than three miles in circumference, 120 thousand persons, which includes about 30,000 mariners on board of the ships in the harbour.[36] [Note 36: I was there in 1768, and again in 1783 and 1784, above four months. People of all nations are there seen in their proper habits; all languages are spoken; it is a free port, and the staple of the Levant trade, as well as of the West-Indian commerce.--There are regular vessels which sail monthly to Constantinople.] _Bordeaux_, 100,000. The population of many more cities is given in a note,[37] besides which there are others, the number of whose inhabitants I cannot learn, such as _Toulouse, Toulon, Brest, Orange, Blois, Avignon_, &c. [Note 37: _Thousand_ must be read after all the following figures. _Dunkerque_ - 80|_Besancon_ - - 26|_La Rochelle_ - 16 _Rouen_ - - - 73|_Aix_- - - - - 25|_Poitiers_ - - 16 _Lille_ - - - 65|_Bourges_- - - 25|_Auxerre_ - - 16 _Nantes_- - - 60|_Tours_ - - - 22|_Perpignan_- - 16 _Nismes_- - - 50|_Arras_ - - - 22|_Chalons_ - - 15 _Strasbourg_- - 46|_Limoges_- - - 22|_Beauvais_ - - 15 _Amiens_- - - 44|_Abbeville_- - 20|_Riom_ - - - 15 _Metz_ - - - 40|_Verdun_ - - - 20|_Nevers_- - - 14 _Caen_ - - - 40|_Arles_- - - - 20|_Boulogne_ - - 12 _Orleans_ - - 40|_Dijon_- - - - 20|_Bayonne_ - - 12 _Rennes_- - - 35|_Valenciennes_ 20|_Soissons_ - - 12 _Nancy_ - - - 34|_St. Malo_ - - 18|_Angouleme_- - 11 _Montpellier_ - 32|_Beziers_- - - 18|_Pau_- - - - 11 _Reims_ - - - 30|_Sedan_- - - - 18|_Alby_ - - - 10 _Clermont_ - - 30|_Carcassonne_- 18|_Alais_ - - - 10 _Troyes_- - - 30|_Havre de Grace_18|_Grasse_- - - 10 _Grenoble_ - - 30|_Moulins_- - - 17|_Versailles_ - 10] The nation gains five millions sterling _per annum_ by the reduction of its expences, and by not having any unnecessary clergymen to maintain,[38] and the forfeited estates of the emigrants are estimated at immense sums.[39] [Note 38: By a decree in November, 1789, no curate is to have less salary than fifty _Louis_ per annum, not including his house and garden. Many of the French at present think that clergymen should be retained like physicians, and paid by those only who want them. By this means, they say, religious quarrels would be avoided; of all quarrels the most absurd, because nobody can understand any thing about the matter. "Personne n'y entend rien."] [Note 39: The civil list mentioned in page 62, was according to the old establishment. In January, 1790, the king was requested to fix a sum for the civil list himself, and in June following he sent a letter to the National Assembly, demanding five and twenty millions of livres. It was decreed that instant.]