Excerpt from An Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the War, Vol. 1 of 2 IN this happy Ifland, where freedom has taken deep root, and {hot forth the mofi luxuriant branches, over fhadowing the fubjee'c, and infuring to him perfonal fecu rity, and the full enjoyment of his property; where the limited {way of the monarch is blended with that of the nobility, and of the people, in To judicious a manner, that no branch of our glorious confiitution is all'owed to preponderate to the detriment of the other component parts the French Revolution, at its commencement, naturally met with many friends, appearing the firuggie of a people groaning under the Oppreliion of an arbitrary, un principled, and voluptuous court, for the bleffings of tha't'liherty which we, 'as Britons, fo p're-emin'ently enjoy. But 'whe'nnie beheld that very people quitting the principles Of freedom for the extravagance of licentioufnefs, 'breal' mg'thiou'gh and'c'arrying de'vaiiation where; ever they bent their head-firo'ng courie, Hayes to evely ip'ecies 'of depravity, and committing hourly the molt atrocious exceiies, we turned from fuch Icenesof horror with loathing and difguit. 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.