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A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France

1797-01 Subjects: Politics and government, Revolutions, War Forms: Pamphlets Translation Status: Source-text English London URL

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Thomas Erskine
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John Debrett
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Coup d'oeil sur les causes et les conséquences de la guerre actuelle avec la France, par M. Erskine, membre de la Chambre des Communes du Parlement d'Angleterre translation has paratext

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Erskine's anti-war pamphlet was a phenomenon, going through 48 English editions and 23 French editions before the end of the year. It was also sold in Edinburgh, Dublin, Boston, NY and Philadelphia.

In it, he delivered a scathing critique on the war policies of the British cabinet and defended the principles of the French Revolution. It provoked at least one hostile response, 'Brief thoughts etc. on The Causes etc.' (1797, Owen & Lee and Hurst).

According to one historian its unexpected popularity led William PItt to send Lord Malmesbury to France a second time to try to negotiate a peace at Lille, but this also concluded without result.

See John Holland Rose, 'The Cambridge HIstory of British Foreign Policy', Vol.1 (1922, CUP) and Jules Dechamps, "Lord Erskine et l'Opposition Whig de 1792 a 1815", in AHRF 20, no.110 (1948).