rope. Though the court of London did not at first accede to the confederation set on foot by the Emperor, we find that the revolution to which it referred, attracted, during the whole of 1791, the profound attention of the British legislature.

In a word, nations as well as men were now set at variance with each other, by a new principle of division and discord. A war was commenced on new ground, to which the great potentates of Europe, after various windings and tergiversations, have been obliged, or probably will be obliged to return: a war, not of ambition and conquest, not for this or that family, nor yet for this or that creed in religion, but a war of the rights of men against the established authority and prerogatives of sovereign princes.

An object so new, singular, and important, naturally calls upon the annalist to exert his whole powers of attention and judgment to the different resources of the opposite parties in this unprecedented warfare: the arguments by which they maintained their theories, and operated on the minds of men; and the means and various success with which they endeavoured to support them respectively, by arms.

Among

Among other fruits of diligent inquiry, we have been favoured with an authentic copy of the plan or groundwork on which the Emperor Leopold wrote a circular letter, relative to the objects above-mentioned, to the principal courts; and which we have inserted in the History of Europe, under the conviction that a general attention to the wise and temperate principles and plans of Leopold may become subservient to the general peace and prosperity of all nations.

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rope. Though the court of London did not at first accede to the confederation set on foot by the Emperor, we find that the revolution to which it referred, attracted, during the whole of 1791, the profound attention of the British legislature.

In a word, nations as well as men were now set at variance with each other, by a new principle of division and discord. A war was commenced on new ground, to which the great potentates of Europe, after various windings and tergiversations, have been obliged, or probably will be obliged to return: a war, not of ambition and conquest, not for this or that family, nor yet for this or that creed in religion, but a war of the rights of men against the established authority and prerogatives of sovereign princes.

An object so new, singular, and important, naturally calls upon the annalist to exert his whole powers of attention and judgment to the different resources of the opposite parties in this unprecedented warfare: the arguments by which they maintained their theories, and operated on the minds of men; and the means and various success with which they endeavoured to support them respectively, by arms.

Among

Among other fruits of diligent inquiry, we have been favoured with an authentic copy of the plan or groundwork on which the Emperor Leopold wrote a circular letter, relative to the objects above-mentioned, to the principal courts; and which we have inserted in the History of Europe, under the conviction that a general attention to the wise and temperate principles and plans of Leopold may become subservient to the general peace and prosperity of all nations.

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