influence enforce its practice.

(Translated from the French)

RIGHTS OF MAN

Among the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and
irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the French Revolution is
an extraordinary instance. Neither the People of France, nor the
National Assembly, were troubling themselves about the affairs of
England, or the English Parliament; and that Mr. Burke should
commence an unprovoked attack upon them, both in Parliament and in
public, is a conduct that cannot be pardoned on the score of manners,
nor justified on that of policy.

There is scarcely an epithet of abuse to be found in the English
language, with which Mr. Burke has not loaded the French Nation and
the National Assembly. Everything which rancour, prejudice, ignorance
or knowledge could suggest, is poured forth in the copious fury of
near four hundred pages. In the strain and on the plan Mr. Burke was
writing, he might have written on to as many thousands. When the
tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man,
and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Hitherto Mr. Burke has been mistaken and disappointed in the opinions
he had formed of the affairs of France; but such is the ingenuity of
his hope, or the malignancy of his despair, that it furnishes him
with new pretences to go on. There was a time when it was impossible
to make Mr. Burke believe there would be any Revolution in France.
His opinion then was, that the French had neither spirit to undertake