Excerpt from The Police of France: Or; An Account of the Laws and Regulations Established in That Kingdom, for the Preservation of Peace, and the Preventing of Robberies, to Which Is Added, a Particular Description of the Police and Government of the City of Paris

I am further to Obferve, that as this kingdom is feparated into generalite'r for the regulation of the police, fo it is again divided into military governments, to enforce the military fervice and into archbifhoprics, and fufiiagan dioceifes, to fupport the ecclefiafiical authority. The fubor dinate Officers of thefe feveral divifions receive their orders from the fuper1or of each department, who receives his from one or other Of the five fecretaries Ofi'tate; each of which fuper intends a certain number of thefe dii'tri ts, befides his more immediate duty in fome particular branch of the adminiftration which alfo is divided into feveral branches; fo that the foreign affairs, the marine, the army, the finances, the civil government, and religion, are the feparate Official duties of different minifters, who lailly receive their orders from the King him felf. Thus we fee the government of this nation is carried on with the greater facility, by dividing it into feveral de partments, with different officers, and dii'tinc't duties for the adminii'tration of each, dependant and relevant, through all the feveral degrees of fubordination, to the fole and ultimate power of the King, who, in this country, is abfolute, and unaccountable to any but the Supreme Power of all i.

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