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Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI. By: Henry Goudemetz (1749-1826?) |
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WITH THE Judgment and Execution OF LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE; AND A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, Who voted FOR and AGAINST his DEATH. PRICE 4s. HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF H. GOUDEMETZ, A FRENCH CLERGYMAN EMIGRANT IN ENGLAND. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO His ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of YORK, BY THE REV. DR. RANDOLPH. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS, THE THIRD EDITION OF THE Judgment and Execution Of LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE; WITH A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, Who voted FOR and AGAINST his DEATH; AND THE NAMES OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS IN
THE COURSE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, DISTINGUISHED ACCORDING
TO THEIR PRINCIPLES. BATH, PRINTED BY R. CRUTTWELL FOR THE AUTHOR;
AND SOLD BY C. DILLY, POULTRY, LONDON: THE BOOKSELLERS OF BATH, &c.
MDCCXCVI DEDICATION. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK. SIR,
WITH the design of serving an amiable and worthy man, I have
availed myself of your Royal Highness's permission to dedicate to you
the translation of a work, which, as a faithful narrative of events,
wants no additional comment to make it interesting. A detail of
facts, in which your Royal Highness, in behalf of your country, has
been so honourably engaged, may not prove unwelcome in aid of
recollection; and a detail of facts, built on the experimental
horrors of popular power, and which, proceeding from the wildness of
theory to the madness of practice, has swept away every vestige of
civil polity, and would soon leave neither law nor religion in the
world, cannot, either in point of instruction or warning, be
unreasonably laid before my fellow citizens at large. Under the sanction, therefore, Sir, of your illustrious name, I
willingly commit to them this memorial. And if an innocent victim
of oppression should thus derive a small, though painful,
subsistence from a plain and publick (sic) recital of his country's
crimes, I shall be abundantly repaid for the little share I may have
had in bringing it into notice; and by the opportunity it affords me
of subscribing myself Your ever grateful and devoted humble servant, FRANCIS RANDOLPH. BATH, July 22, 1796 PREFACE THE following sheets contain a journal of principal events of the
French Revolution. The best authorities have been resorted to, and
the facts are related without any comment. The reader will find a
faithful outline of an interesting and momentous period of history,
and will see how naturally each error produced its corresponding
misfortune. Various causes contributed to effect a revolution in the minds of
Frenchmen, and led the way to a revolution in the state. The
arbitrary nature of the government had been long submitted to, and
perhaps would have continued so much longer, if France had not taken
part in the American war. The perfidious policy of VERGENNES, who, with a view of humbling the
pride of England, assisted the subject in arms against his Sovereign,
soon imported into his own nation the seeds of liberty, which it had
helped to cultivate in a country of rebellion; and the crown of
France, as I once heard it emphatically observed, was lost in the
plains of America. The soldier returned to Europe with new doctrines
instead of new discipline, and the army in general soon grew
dissatisfied with the Monarch, on account of unusual, and, as they
thought, ignominious rigours which were introduced into it from the
military school of Germany. The King also, from a necessity of
retrenchment, had induced his ministers to adopt some mistaken
measures of economy respecting the troops, and thus increased the
odium which pride had fostered, and by diminishing the splendour of
the crown, stripped it of its security and protection. To this was added the wanton profusion of the Court in other
expenses, and the external parade and brilliancy, which, if they
impoverish, often dazzle and gratify the people, was exchanged for
familiar entertainments, which gave rise to frequent jealousies among
the nobles, and tended to lower that sense of awe and respect for
royalty among the people, which in monarchies it is of the utmost
importance to preserve... Continue reading book >>
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