jiN

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four Volumes nvere completed. They are now ready for delivery, and may Nc. ^6,

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i"he Author liad only publifhed his firft Volume during the life-time of that valiant Combatant of French democracy, Mr. Burke; but the work, even in that early ftate, entitled the Author to that Gentleman's applaufs,
as
:

may
Sir,

be feen by the following letter

" <

I cannot eafily exprefs to you how much I am Inftrufted and dejlghte.i by the firft Volume of your Hiflory of Jacobinifm. The whole of the wonderful narrative is fupported by documents and proofs with the moft juridical regularity and exadnefs. Your reflexions and reafonings are interfperfed with infinite judgement, and in their raofl proper places, for heading the fentiments of the reader, and preventing the force of plaufibls bjeiflions. The tendency of the whole is admirable in every point of

view, political, religious, and, let me make ufe of the abufed word, .philofophical. So far as I can prefume to judge of a French ftyle, the /language is of the firft water. I long impatiently for the fecond Volum*
fcut

the great objedi of

my

wiflies

is, tiiat

the

work /hould have a

great

irculation in France, if by any means it can be compafled ; and for that end, I fiiould be glad, upon the fcale of a poor individual, to become a
liberal fubfcriber.

Is

am

as yet in a mlferable ftate ef health

and

If I

advance at

all, It

very flowly, and with many fallings back. I forgot to fay, that I have fenown myfelf, perfonaUy, five of your principal confpirators ; and I caii undertake to fay from my own certain knowledge, that fo far back as the year 1773, they were bufy in the plot you have fo well defcribed, and in the minner, and on the principle you have fo truly reprefented.To this I can fpeak as a witnefs. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. Miiy I, 1797. (Signed) " Ed. Burke.'* The Br!t;(h Critic pafled his jud5e.^lcnt on the work when the thrcs
firll
:

Volumes were

publiftied,

the follovving terms

hai.

"

appeared fince the commencement of our labours, which was more neceflary to be read, and weighed attentively, by every perfon of any property, whether hereditary or commercial ; every pejlpft holding any iimk in fociety ; and every perfon who has within him a fpark of zeal, eitlier for the honour of God, or the welfare oi UjanWiid." fM^rch 1798, Pag* *92') Certain
are, that

we

no book

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
On
thd

Work

entitled

Memoirs,

illujlrating

the

IViflory

of Jacohinifm:

The
The

Abbe Barruel

has divided his

Memoirs

into three
other.

different confpir.acies, naturally flowing

firft is,

from each

that of the Sophijters of Impiety, confpiring

againft: their

God, and

Chriil, by

(vfCTix'nvf^ to

impioufly denoting their hatred of cru/h the wretch \ for thus they

blafphemoufly ftyle the Saviour of the World. He defcribes the divers means and arts employed by them in their

An'tichristian Conspiracy,

ftcp

by ftep; and

tlie

Chriftian need not dwell on the proofs, when he is informed, that, in October, 1798, all places of Chrillian worfhip were aboliflied at Paris ; and that capital was no longer fubdivided into parifhes, but into Wards, each

having

a Tl-w/i/^ dedicated to

PAGAN worship,
St. Philip

as follows
is

to

Ift.

Ward

The
to

church of

du Roule
St.

now

confecrated

Concord,
St.

II.

The
to

church of

Roche
St.

Genius.

IIL

Euflache

Agriculture.

W.
St.
to

Germain-L'Auxerrois
to

to Gratittule.

V.

Laurence

Old Jge. -VI.

VII.
St.

St. to

Nicolas- in-the-Ficlds

Hymen.

to

Merry

Commerce,

Equality and Liberty.

VIII. Margartt iX. Gervais

St. St.
to to

Toittk,

X.

St.

Thomas

of Aquinas

Peace.

-^ XI.

St.
to

Sulpice

to Viciory,

Xil.

St.
to

James-du-Haut-?as
;

Benevolence

to

St.

Medard
Piety.

Labour

and

St. Stephen-

on-the-

Mount

fHal

Chriftian will fhudder at this recital ; but when the in 1797, afTerted, that the total fubvcrfrOn of Chriftianity was the objel cf the Sef^, he was fcarccly telieved, and wasfet downasancnthufiaft: he had, rrcvdr* a 2 thdcfs,

Abbe, early