Observations on the strength of the present government of France and upon the necessity of rallying round it
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- James Losh
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Summary (extracted citations)
On page 1 of the Translator's preface: "And at this awful crisis, when a dispassionate inquiry into the real strength and resources of the French Republic is of infinite importance to every Englishman, we too may derive some benefit from the observations of so able and enlightened a man. A man possessed of the best means of information, and having every motive to deliver his sentiments with zeal and integrity".
Notes
In the preface the translator stresses the particular relevance of the work for the English audience in 1797, maybe following the failed uprising against the Directory in Paris of the followers of Babeuf on Septembre 9, 1796. The translator also cites an anti-Terror extract from a letter of Lacretelle to Constant.