ABSTRACT
Amongst the peculiar circumstances attending the French revolution; the most interesting, and the most remarkable, is the general horror with which it is viewed by the European Monarchs, and the extensive and powerful combination which has been formed amongst them to suppress it. The terror it has produced seems to have totally absorbed every other consideration, to have united the most discordant interests, destroyed the most inveterate prejudices, and the most violent jealousies. It has even driven the Pope to seek refuge in a nation, which has for more than two centuries had the misfortune to lie under his interdict, and to that monarch whose subjects he has most solemnly discharged from their allegiance to him. An investigation into the cause of this political phenomenon may not be uninteresting, even exclusive of the important consequences likely to result from it.
