iV ’ Pde FA ee, 
the clearing away of whole buthels of 
chaff, was frequently not rewarded. bya 
finele feed of wholefome grain, we have 
Mepesensiad to comprefs within the nar- 
row compa{s of our prefcribed limits, fuch, 
an abfira& of the Hiftory of the French 
Revolution, as we truft will not prove un- 
acceptable or unfatisfactory to the Public: 
requefiing our Readers to bear in mind, 
that it would require an ample folio vo. 
lume to do full juftice to all the parts of 
which we have here traced the outline. 
The time and room taken up by this 
momentous fubject, has of neceflity pre- 
cluded our entering into the detail of other 
foreign tranfa@ions, which, in the ufual — 
flate of things; would have been deemed 
objeG&s of principal importance. The 
eonclufion of that ferocious and bloody: 
war between the great powers of the North 
and. Eaft. (of the opening, and progres, of 
which, through the two firft campaigns, _ 
we gave fo particular an account in our 
preceding volumes) fhall, with the death 
of the Emperer Jofeph, oad fome other 
matters, form a retro{pective article in our 
enfuing volume, :) 
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