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THERE is a dramatic misy, as well as feep merest a the French Revolution of the Three Days mit the consentent events, which transpired in other paru af Larige. Mich been published concerning them in detached para: but continuous narrative of the whole, upon a mño 1. ed to the popular use and apprehension. Especialy a tere an absence of such a narrative, and such a form, trava i vah reference to the warts of the general reader in the Inter States. These considerations suggested the present unicstion.

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It is difficult, I am aware, to write tempe well, — that is, impartially as to men, and fainly inducements and causes of evente. But via ten we not understand or inquire what is passing at existing world! Shall we busy ourselves my a te zon of past ages! Imperfectly as we may vie or certain the history of our own time, surely it is tearate acqure BRUCE degree of information touching it, as we may for we came avoid gaining a loose knowledge of facts from fie faly perru of newspapers and the customary intercourse of society VEL if we abstain from making or reading books; and it would RREZIL to be wise and proper to comect our opinie, and is vir mes of events and of the actors in them, by the surest UNTERING tion to correct history, which it is in our power to effect While duly sensible, therefore, of the defern TIDE from such a work as the present, I claim for it at least a good purpose. And although I cannot pretend to absolute mupertiality,although it were vain to deny the bias in favor of liberal principles, which belongs 20 my social position and my nationality, yet thus much I will way, fiat I have BLDCR

vored to state facts truly as they are presented to us in the printed records of the period. It is for the reader to judge whether those facts warrant and justify the reflections, which I have freely introduced into my narrative, as opportunity invited.

Occasional reference will be found, in the text or notes, to such authors, as have afforded me valuable aid. Something I may have derived from personal knowledge of men and things in Europe. In writing cotemporaneous history, especially at the present day, exact citation of specific authorities for each fact is hardly practicable. A vast number of journals, of every description, furnish intelligence, not always to be trusted implicitly, but yet frequently of the most authentic quality, as in the case of legislative debates, public documents, letters of responsible individuals, and the like. Pamphlets and reviews, if they do not greatly increase the amount of original information, serve to analyze, correct, and explain that, which is obtained from other sources. It is, in fact, the current historical and political knowledge of the day, which I have endeavored to seize and embody in the most unpretending form, after attentive perusal of the state-papers, imperfect histories, and periodical publications, which bear upon my subject.

It is proper to add that a portion of the work was originally written for and published in the American Annual Register.

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