PREFACE. 



'' I ^HE present Volume, we hope, will be regarded 

 by our Readers as an additional proof of industry, 

 and punctuality in the fulfilment of our engagements to 

 bring up this progressive Work to the latest years, with as 

 much expedition as is consistent with those principles which, 

 in both its spirit and style, we wish to be uniformly 

 governed. — It is not an easy matter to compress that multi- 

 plicity of striking events which accompanies the commence- 

 ment of a great and important sera in the history of the 

 world, nearly within the accustomed bounds of our prece- 

 ding volumes, agreeably to the maxims explained in a former 

 preface. 



The narrative which, by means of private communica- 

 tions, as well as various, and some of these very recent publi- 

 cations, we have been enabled to give of the war in La Ven- 

 dee, during ] 793 and 1 794, will, we doubt not, greatly interest 

 every class of our readers. On every subject we have been 

 careful to investigate the truth ; and candid, unbiassed, and 

 determined in representing and recording it. If, notwith- 

 standing that care and this disposition, we have involuntarily 

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