one chamber are not the maxims of another.
What aſtoniſhing contrariety in the laws of one kingdom! In Paris a man, who has been an inhabitant during one year and a day, is reputed a citizen. In Franche-Compté a freeman who, during a year and a day, inhabits a houſe in mortmain, becomes a ſlave; his collateral heirs are excluded from inheriting his foreign acquiſitions, and even his children are deprived of their inheritance, if they have been a year abſent from the houſe in which the father died. This province is called Franche, but where is their freedom?
Were we to attempt to draw a line between civil authority and eccleſiaſtical cuſtoms, what endleſs diſputes would enſue? In ſhort, to what ſide ſoever we turn our eyes, we are preſented with a confuſed ſcene of contradictions, uncertainty, hardſhips, and arbitrary power. In the
