it nor fortitude to support it; and now that there is one, he seeks
an escape by condemning it.

Not sufficiently content with abusing the National Assembly, a great
part of his work is taken up with abusing Dr. Price (one of the
best-hearted men that lives) and the two societies in England known
by the name of the Revolution Society and the Society for
Constitutional Information.

Dr. Price had preached a sermon on the 4th of November, 1789, being
the anniversary of what is called in England the Revolution, which
took place 1688. Mr. Burke, speaking of this sermon, says: "The
political Divine proceeds dogmatically to assert, that by the
principles of the Revolution, the people of England have acquired
three fundamental rights:

1. To choose our own governors.

2. To cashier them for misconduct.

3. To frame a government for ourselves."

Dr. Price does not say that the right to do these things exists in
this or in that person, or in this or in that description of persons,
but that it exists in the whole; that it is a right resident in the
nation. Mr. Burke, on the contrary, denies that such a right exists
in the nation, either in whole or in part, or that it exists
anywhere; and, what is still more strange and marvellous, he says:
"that the people of England utterly disclaim such a right, and that
they will resist the practical assertion of it with their lives and