Excerpt from Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France: In a Letter to the Right Hon. The Earl of Stanhope Two parties are already formed in this country, who behold the French Revolution with a very oppofite temper To the one, it infpires the fentiment of exultation and rapture; and to the other, indignation and foam. I [hall not take upon me to confider what are the fecret pallions which have given birth to thele laf'c fentiments; and (hall content myfelf with obferving, that Mr. Burke has undertaken to be the oracle of this laft party. The abilities of this gentleman have been fully acknowledged by the impatience with which t 'e publick have waited for his obferva tions and when we co fider that he has been in a manner edu gated in the great fchool of Parliament, that he has aflit'ted in the publick councils of the Englith nation for the greater part of his life, we muf't fuppofe him fully competent to the talk he has un dertaken, of cenfuring the politicks of our neighbour kingdom, and entering into an exaet definition of thofe native rights which equally attach themfelves to every defcription of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Catharine Macaulay's reply to Burke on the French Revolution has never been reprinted, but takes its place alongside Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men as the immediate response of the radical left, preceding Priestley, Mackintosh and Paine. The leading professional historian of her day, Macaulay was a personal friend of Washington, and had Volumes 1-5 of her History of England translated into French by Mirabeau. Her Letters on Education 1790 (see p. 21 of this catalogue) contains the basic feminist positions taken up by Wollstonecraft in her second Vindication.