_Opinions on the transactions of the fourth of August. Disorders occasioned by those transactions. Necker demands the assembly’s sanction to a loan. A loan decreed. Tithes abolished. Debate on the declaration of rights. The formation of a constitution. Debate on the executive power. The suspensive veto adopted. Pretended and real views of the combination of despots against France. Debate on the constitution of a senate. Means of peaceably effecting a reform should make a part of every constitution._ p. 313. CHAP. II. _Observations on the veto. The women offer up their ornaments to the public. Debate whether the spanish branch of the Bourbons could reign in France. Conduct of the king respecting the decrees of the fourth of August. Vanity of the french. Debates on quartering a thousand regulars at Versailles. Individuals offer their jewels and plate to make up the deficiency of the loan. The king sends his rich service of plate to the mint. Necker’s proposal for every citizen to give up a fourth of his income. Speech of Mirabeau on it. His address to the nation._ p. 359. CHAP. III. _Reflections on the new mode of raising supplies. No just system of taxation yet established. Paper money. Necessity of gradual reform._ p. 388. _BOOK V._ CHAP. I. _Errour of the national assembly in neglecting to secure the freedom of France. It’s conduct compared with that of the american states. Necessity of forming a new constitution as soon as an old government is destroyed. The declaring of the king inviolable a wrong measure. Security of the french against a counter-revolution. The flight of the king meditated._ p. 399. CHAP. II. _Entertainment at Versailles. The national cockade trampled under foot. A mob of women proceed to the hôtel-de-ville—and thence to Versailles. The king’s reply to the national assembly’s request, that he would sanction the declaration of rights and the first articles of the constitution. Debates on it. Arrival of the mob at Versailles. The king receives a deputation from the women, and sanctions the decree for the free circulation of grain. The assembly summoned. La Fayette arrives with the parisian militia. The palace attacked by the mob—who are dispersed by the national guards. Reflections on the conduct of the duke of Orleans._ p. 420. CHAP. III.