Historical Review of the Administration of Mr Necker
Historical Review of the Administration of Mr Necker
Jacques Necker
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Necker. 231 alone in contrail with the afTembly, would find himfelf in fo detached a fituation as muft gradually weaken the executive power that was vefted in him. The afTembly however, far from purfuing the path which thefe reflec- tions point out, have flapped the chief of the empire of all the attributes which tended to fupport the idea of his elevated ftation, and have at the fame time deprived him of every thing which conftitutes moral dominion, the only dominion that invariably commands r...e- fpecl: and captivates obedience. They have left the king no influence either in ecclefiaftical preferments, or in the choice of judges, or magiftrates of the police, or municipal officers, or governors of the departments and diftri&s, or commanders of the national guard, or the new fuperintendants of public order, a train band that is to fupply the place of the Mare* chauflee ; in fhort, all army and navy promo- tions are fubjected to almoft invariable rules ; and, as if it were too great an indulgence to have reftored to the king the power of finan- cial appointments, they have obliged him to ac- cept new directors of the pofts from the far- mers general at prefent in office ; and this mi- nute reftriction has been fixed by a legiflative Q^ 4 decree.
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