fembly, or from other moft refpectable fources. We
have endeavoured to ftate facts with the utmost impartiality; and though we profefs to be the friends of freedom in general, the reader will find that we have not been sparing of our ftrictures on the conduct of both parties; whenever the principles of justice were outraged; and whenever the cause of liberty was difgraced as in too many inftances it was, by the populace of France and their demagogues. One effect we are led to hope for confidently from the representation we have drawn of thefe affairs, which is, that it will ferve to abate the violence of both parties on the subject-Such is ever the effe& of truth. The favourers of the French revolution. will learn from our statement, that though the principle is impregnable, the conduct of the actors in this great event was not always immaculate; and those who are, in the general, hoftile to it, may perhaps be induced to allow that fuch an amazing change in a defpotic government, the abufes of which fo many were interested in preferving, could not be conducted without fome acts of violence and outrage— Where the people are to do every thing, they will do fome things wrong.
Another principle which a fair view of this subject will establish, and which may also ferve to diminish the animofity of parties in this country, at leaft, is, that no grounds of comparison exist between