With respect to the interior causes of decline, they may be
counteracted always with more or less effect, by a proper system of
govern-

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{143} The burthens on the industry of old France, were,

Livres.
Rent of land 700,000,000
Revenues of clergy 600,000,000
Taxes, including the expense of levying 800,000,000
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2,100,000,000

In sterling money L. 87,500,000
Half land now occupied by the cultivators, }
and the remainder let at lower rents } 350,000,000
Revenues of clergy, and the expenses 50,000,000
Taxes as before 800,000,000
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1,200,000,000
Or in sterling money L. 50,400,000

This makes a diminution of L. 37,100,000; or something more than a
third of the whole expense, and more than all the taxes to the state
estimated at the highest rate.
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