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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF BURKE . r Three Memorials of French tiff airs , written in the Year ' 1791 , 1792 , and 1793 . 2 jv Me fori' Right Honourable Edmund Burke , two . y . 64 . Rivingtons . THESE Memorials contain applications to tbe existing cases of the general principles which had appeared in Burke's former publications on the 1 written after two
French revolution . The Memorial of 1791 W ; S soon letters of Motitmorin , sent to all foreign courts ; the first announcing the new constitution of France , the second its revision and final . acceptance by the Kin * . Mr . Burke gives us . his view of the nature and eftefts of the French revolution , and of its partisans in different countries . He marks the probable progress of its spirit , by noticing circumstances in the several states o . Europe likely to forward its progress . Having minutely described what appeared endeavours to combat the opinion ot
to him its characteristical features , he those who thought that it would be . dissolved from its own violence . He thinks it invulnerable by mere internal attacks . Its resources , he alledges , are not in its credit , in its national , finances , or any of the usual constituents , but in its wickedness , which makes all property , to whomsoever appertaining , subservient to its use . Even bankruptcy , he maintains , cannot dimmish its force
. He sums up his arguments into three propositions : ist , T . hat no counterrevolution is to be expected in France from internal causes solely , adly , That the longer the present system exists , the greater will be its strength . 3 dly , That as long as it exists in France , it would be the interest of the revolutionists to distract and revolutionize other countries .
He does not direftly recommend an external combination against this system ; but if we admit his premises , a combination was the only way to preserve other states from its baleful influence . This paper , we are told , was shewn to the Kine's Ministers , but did not meet their ideas . No aggression had been made " on this country at that time by France : it was not thought expedient to go to war with her , as long as her internal changes did not disturb our tranquillity . the late
The second Memorial was written soon after the retreat of King of Prussia , and the subsequent successes of the French , before they had advanced to the Scheldt , containing many additional invectives and abusive epithets concerning the revolutionists . He exhorts this country to take the lead in a combination against the thieves , robbers , murderers , atheists , and Jacobins . Althoueh he considers such a combination as necessary tor repressing French power , his chief objeft is to subdue French principles . He se-The
verely censures the mode of conducing the invasion into France . . guidance of the expedition ought to have been committed to what he calls the Moral France , in opposition to the Arithmetical and Geographical . This Moral France consisted of the emigrant princes , nobility , clergy , and military officers . He enters into a detail of the means of forming such a combination as he thinks the circumstances required ; and if his reasoning be not always just , he certainly displays the wonderful extent ot . his knowledge , and the force of his genius . VOL , X , £
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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF BURKE . r Three Memorials of French tiff airs , written in the Year ' 1791 , 1792 , and 1793 . 2 jv Me fori' Right Honourable Edmund Burke , two . y . 64 . Rivingtons . THESE Memorials contain applications to tbe existing cases of the general principles which had appeared in Burke's former publications on the 1 written after two
French revolution . The Memorial of 1791 W ; S soon letters of Motitmorin , sent to all foreign courts ; the first announcing the new constitution of France , the second its revision and final . acceptance by the Kin * . Mr . Burke gives us . his view of the nature and eftefts of the French revolution , and of its partisans in different countries . He marks the probable progress of its spirit , by noticing circumstances in the several states o . Europe likely to forward its progress . Having minutely described what appeared endeavours to combat the opinion ot
to him its characteristical features , he those who thought that it would be . dissolved from its own violence . He thinks it invulnerable by mere internal attacks . Its resources , he alledges , are not in its credit , in its national , finances , or any of the usual constituents , but in its wickedness , which makes all property , to whomsoever appertaining , subservient to its use . Even bankruptcy , he maintains , cannot dimmish its force
. He sums up his arguments into three propositions : ist , T . hat no counterrevolution is to be expected in France from internal causes solely , adly , That the longer the present system exists , the greater will be its strength . 3 dly , That as long as it exists in France , it would be the interest of the revolutionists to distract and revolutionize other countries .
He does not direftly recommend an external combination against this system ; but if we admit his premises , a combination was the only way to preserve other states from its baleful influence . This paper , we are told , was shewn to the Kine's Ministers , but did not meet their ideas . No aggression had been made " on this country at that time by France : it was not thought expedient to go to war with her , as long as her internal changes did not disturb our tranquillity . the late
The second Memorial was written soon after the retreat of King of Prussia , and the subsequent successes of the French , before they had advanced to the Scheldt , containing many additional invectives and abusive epithets concerning the revolutionists . He exhorts this country to take the lead in a combination against the thieves , robbers , murderers , atheists , and Jacobins . Althoueh he considers such a combination as necessary tor repressing French power , his chief objeft is to subdue French principles . He se-The
verely censures the mode of conducing the invasion into France . . guidance of the expedition ought to have been committed to what he calls the Moral France , in opposition to the Arithmetical and Geographical . This Moral France consisted of the emigrant princes , nobility , clergy , and military officers . He enters into a detail of the means of forming such a combination as he thinks the circumstances required ; and if his reasoning be not always just , he certainly displays the wonderful extent ot . his knowledge , and the force of his genius . VOL , X , £