If therefore we multiply 40,000 by 10 ------------------------ the number of members will be 400,000 5 ------------------------ and the expence per day 2,000,000 livres; which multiplied by 365 ------------------------ makes the annual expence 730,000,000 livres, or, at 10½_d._ each, £.31,937,500. The committee of _surveillance_ of Quimper consisted of twelve members, whose names and occupations were as follows: Botibon, retail shopkeeper, Harier, butcher, Moreau, musician, Becam, taylor, Cariou, taylor, Keroch, barber, Rose, barber, Roland, merchant’s clerk, Morivan, hog-butcher, Le Moine, gardener, Montaigne, brazier, L’Hot, printer’s devil. They were to a man the creatures of the creatures, ten gradations deep, of the committee of public safety. In such hands were the liberties and lives of Frenchmen deposited! Even on the day I write, the institution is not totally abolished, but is momently expected to be so. It is still retained in towns which contain forty thousand inhabitants, or more, but is seldom allowed to exercise its powers. The number of persons guillotined in Quimper was only four, two priests and two women. The _guillotine_ was kept in the cathedral, but performed its office on the parade. It was customary to send to Brest those who were denounced, which was more convenient than to try them on the spot, where witnesses might have established their innocence: of this class there were many victims. I was told, when at Brest, that 172 persons of both sexes had been executed there. The operation is said to have been performed on 32 of the number in somewhat less than nineteen minutes.