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Entire Edition of tbeje Memoirs -was fold before the Fourth Volume reached the pref: ; a>id the great inconvenience attending the delivery offeparad volumes induced the TranJIator to defer the ftibiication of the Jecond Edition, untii
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,
" <
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
my
wiflies
is, tiiat
the
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
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,
"
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
Memoirs
into three
other.
from each
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
St. to
Nicolas- in-the-Ficlds
Hymen.
to
Merry
Commerce,
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