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Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall, 1793.

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HE great importance to all nations and people of the moft extraordinary Revolution which ever yet marked the various history of mankind, a Revolution which has already produced effects that are fenfibly and unfortunately felt in every quarter of the globe, and which is ftill capable, in its poffible confequences, of mocking all calculations framed by Wisdom, or founded on experience, with respect to their extent and duration, has, in our prefent Work, called forth our utmoft powers of diligence, enquiry, and attention, to trace and delineate the circumftances attending fo great and fo fingular an event. Nor was this by any means an eafy task. For, though the fources of information were beyond all example and measure redundant and voluminous, yet they poffeffed properties little favourable to the formation of hiftory; being generally framed and calculated merely for the purposes of mifreprefentation and deception; their variety, contradictions, and number, all tended to increase the difficuity of difcovering the truth. From such heaps of inert or doubtful matter, where

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