compromise with the bishop on a promise of fifty thousand livres," and want him to burn his archives.--In short, the sedition is social for it singles out for attack all that profit by, or stand at the head of, the established order of things. Seeing them act in this way, one would say that the theory of the Contrat-Social had been instilled into them. They treat magistrates as domestics, promulgate laws, and conduct themselves like sovereigns. They exercise public power, and establish, summarily, arbitrarily, and brutally, whatever they think to be in conformity with natural right.--At Peinier they exact a second electoral assembly, and, for themselves, the right of suffrage.--At Saint-Maximin they themselves elect new consuls and officers of justice.--At Solliez they oblige the judge's lieutenant to give in his resignation, and they break his staff of office.--At Barjols "they use consuls and judges as their town servants, announcing that they are masters and that they will themselves administer justice."--In fact, they do administer it, as they understand it--that is to say, through many exactions and robberies! One man has wheat; he must share it with him who has none. Another has money; he must give it to him who has not enough to buy bread with. On this principle, at Barjols, they tax the Ursulin nuns 1,800 livres, carry off fifty loads of wheat from the Chapter, eighteen from one poor artisan, and forty from another, and constrain canons and beneficiaries to give acquittances to their farmers. Then, from house to house, with club in hand, they oblige some to hand over money, others to abandon their claims on their debtors, "one to desist from criminal proceedings, another to nullify a decree obtained, a third to reimburse the expenses of a lawsuit gained years before, a father to give his consent to the marriage of his son."--All their grievances are brought to mind, and we all know the tenacity of a peasant's memory. Having become the master, he redresses wrongs, and especially those of which he thinks himself the object. There must be a general restitution; and first, of the feudal dues which have been collected. They take of M. de Montmeyan's business agent all the money he has as compensation for that received by him during fifteen years as a notary. A former consul of Brignolles had, in 1775, inflicted penalties to the amount of 1,500 or 1,800 francs, which had been given to the poor; this sum is taken from his strong box. Moreover, if consuls and law officers are wrongdoers, the title deeds, rent-rolls, and other documents by which they do their business are still worse. To the fire with all old writings--not only office registers, but also, at Hyères, all the papers in the town hall and those of the principal notary.--In the matter of papers none are good but new ones--those which convey some discharge, quittance, or obligation to the advantage of the people. At Brignolles the owners of