I do not put my name to these hints submitted to the consideration of reflecting men.  It is of too little importance to suppose the name of the writer could add any weight to the state of things contained in this paper.  That state of things presses irresistibly on my judgment, and it lies, and has long lain, with a heavy weight upon my mind.  I cannot think that what is done in France is beneficial to the human race.  If it were, the English Constitution ought no more to stand against it than the ancient Constitution of the kingdom in which the new system prevails.  I thought it the duty of a man not unconcerned for the public, and who is a faithful subject to the king, respectfully to submit this state of facts, at this new step in the progress of the French arms and politics, to his Majesty, to his confidential servants, and to those persons who, though not in office, by their birth, their rank, their fortune, their character, and their reputation for wisdom, seem to me to have a large stake in the stability of the ancient order of things.

BATH, November 5, 1792.

REMARKS

ON

THE POLICY OF THE ALLIES

WITH RESPECT TO FRANCE.

BEGUN IN OCTOBER, 1793.

ON THE POLICY OF THE ALLIES.

As the proposed manifesto is, I understand, to promulgate to the world the general idea of a plan for the regulation of a great kingdom, and through the regulation of that kingdom probably to decide the fate of Europe forever, nothing requires a more serious deliberation with regard to the time of making it, the circumstances of those to whom it is addressed, and the matter it is to contain.

As to the time, (with the due diffidence in my own opinion,) I have some doubts whether it is not rather unfavorable to the issuing any manifesto with regard to the intended government of France, and for this reason:  that it is (upon the principal point of our attack) a time of calamity and defeat.  Manifestoes of this nature are commonly made when the army of some sovereign enters into the enemy’s country in great force, and under the imposing authority of that force employs menaces towards those whom he desires to awe, and makes promises to those whom he wishes to engage in his favor.

As to a party, what has been done at Toulon leaves no doubt that the party for which we declare must be that which substantially declares for royalty as the basis of the government.