PREFACE. Ix 



profeffed Panegyrift and Penfioner of 

 the ill-fated Louis XVI. fhould be ca- 

 reffed, fliould be refpedled, fliould be 

 promoted to honour, by that very Na- 

 tional Convention which degraded, de- 

 throned, decapitated his patron and be- 

 nefactor. Can a flronger teftimony be 

 borne to wifdom and virtue? 



Unfortunately for the Tranflator, the 

 times admitted not of opening a corre- 

 fpondence with the Author, by which 

 he might have availed himfelf, for ob- 

 taining a folution of many difficulties 

 and doubts that arofe in the execution 

 of his taik, and by which he might have 

 rendered the Tranflation lefs unworthy 

 of the Original. The fame caufe for- 

 bade the gratification of a wifli which 

 he fondly entertained, that of prefenting 

 the Englifh Reader with an engraved 

 portrait of the form of the Man, with 



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