VINDICIE GALLICÆ. DEFENCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS ENGLISH ADMIRERS, AGAINST THE ACCUSATIONS OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE; INCLUDING SOME STRICTURES ON THE LATE PRODUCTION OF MONS. DE CALONNE. By JAMES MACKINTOSH, OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQUIRE. THE FOURTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1 Fr 1346.118.15 V. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Oct. 21, 1939 1665 45-227 HAD ADVERTISEMENT. AD 1 forefeen the fize to which the following volume was to grow, or the obftacles that were to retard its completion, Ifhould probably have shrunk from the undertaking; and perhaps I may now be supposed to owe an apology for of fering it to the Public, after the able and mafterly Publications to which this controverfy has given occafion. Many parts of it bear internal marks of having been written fome months ago, by allufions to circumftances which are now changed; but as they did not affect the reafoning, I was not folicitous to alter them. For the lateness of its appearance, I find a confolation in the knowledge, that refpectable Works on the same subject are still expected by the Public; and the number of my fellow-labourers only fuggefts the reflection—that too many minds cannot be employed on a controversy fo immenfe as to present the most various afpects to different understandings, and so important, that the more correct statement of one fact, or the more fuccessful illustration of one argument, will at least rescue a book from the imputation of having been written in vain. Little Ealing, Middlefex, April 26, 1791. |