On the State of Europe Before and After the French Revolution

A HE object of the work we are now about to examine, is no other than to fhow, that Europe is in future to be indebted to the beneficial influence of France for the maintenance of all peace and fecurity, and for the prefervation of its focial and political conftitution: that, on account of her fituation, her relations to other powers, and the principles of her prefent government, Trance can delire and aim at nothing elfe than the common welfare of all nations, the independence and ftability of all go- Ternments; and that her political and military greatnefs, her natural and acquired riches, her prefent lyfiem of adminiftration, and the advantages of a conflitution according with the manners and incHnations of her inhabitants, furnifh her abundapt means not only to maintain the pofition Ihe now occupies, but to prote6l and regulate the nations af:OUAd lier; to eftabhfli and preferve the equiUbrium among them; and, in ihoii^’ .-to- hc^<^va/s^^r)A. continue the -common centre of a fyftem compofed of all the flates of Europe.