HISTORY OF EUROPE

DURING THE

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

"BELLUM maxime omnium memorabile quæ unquam gesta sint me scripturum ;

Nam neque

quod Hannibale duce Carthaginienses cum populo Romano gessere. validiores opibus ullæ inter se civitates gentesque contulerunt arma, neque his ipsis tantum unquam virium aut roboris fuit: et haud ignotas belli artes inter se, sed expertas primo Punico conserebant bello; odiis etiam prope majoribus certarunt quam viribus; et adeo varia belli fortuna, ancepsque Mars fuit, ut propius periculum fuerint qui vicerunt."-Liv. lib. 21.

DURING THE

FRENCH REVOLUTION./

EMBRACING

THE PERIOD FROM THE ASSEMBLY OF THE NOTABLES,
IN M.DCC.LXXXIX.,

TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DIRECTORY,

IN M.DCC.XCV.

BY ARCHIBALD ALISON, F.R.S. E.

ADVOCATE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND

T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON.

M.DCCC.XXXIII.

BOD

EDINBURGH PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PAUL'S WORK, CANONGATE.

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THE REV. ARCHIBALD ALISON, LL.B., F.R.S.L.E.,

PREBENDARY OF SARUM, RECTOR of Roddington,

VICAR OF HIGH ERCALL, ETC. IN THE COUNTY of salop,

AND SENIOR CLERGYMAN OF ST PAUL'S CHAPEL,

EDINBURGH;

AUTHOR OF "ESSAYS ON THE NATURE AND

PRINCIPLES OF TASTE;"

AND OF DISCOURSES DURING THE PROGRESS

OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,'

THIS WORK,

FRAMED ON HIS PRINCIPLES,

AND ENCOURAGED BY HIS counsel,

IS INSCRIBED,

WITH THE HIGHEST SENTIMENTS OF RESPECt, and the

WARMEST FEelings of FILIAL AFFECTION,

BY THE AUTHOR.