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HE great importance to all nations 
p . and people of the moft extraordi- 
nary Revolution which ever yet marked 
the various hiftory of mankind, a Revolu- 
tion which has already produced effects 
that are fenfibly and unfortunately felt in 
every quarter of the globe, and which is 
{till capable, in its poflible confequences, 
of mocking all calculations framed. by 
wifdom, or founded on experience, with 
refpect to their extent and duration, has, 
in our prefent Work, called forth our ut- 
moft powers of diligence, enquiry, and at- 
tention, to trace and delineate the circum- 
ftances attending fo great and fo fingular 
an event. Nor was this by any means an 
eafy tafk. For, though the fources of in- 
formation were beyond all example and 
meafure redundant and voluminous, yet 
they poffefled properties little favourable 
to the formation of hiftory ; being gene- 
rally framed and calculated merely for the 
purpofes of mifreprefentation and decep- 
tion; their variety, contradictions, and 
number, all tended to increafe the difh- 
culty of difcovering the truth. From fuch 
_ heaps’of inert or doubtful matter, where 
the 
