5427. MONOPOLY, Farmers General.—
The true obstacle to this proposition has penentrated,
in various ways, through the veil
which covers it. The influence of the
Farmers General has been heretofore found
sufficient to shake a minister in his office.
Monsieur de Calonne's continuance or dismission
has been thought, for some time, to
be on a poise. Were he to shift this great
weight, therefore, out of his own scale into
that of his adversaries, it would decide their
preponderance. The joint interests of France
and America would be insufficient counterpoise
in his favor.—
Report to Congress. Washington ed. ix, 242.
Ford ed., iv, 129.
(P.
1785)
