ABSTRACT
I HAVE been at the Jacobins, that society which has acted a part so distinguished in the French revolution, and in which every political question of importance is debated before it is brought forward in the National Assembly. The Jacobins have too much influence in the new system of French politics not to have many enemies. By those persons every crime, every enormity is attributed to this society; which, it is asserted, has not only the sate of France, but the sate of Europe in his hands. If the Emperor of Germany is hostile to the French nation, it is the fault of the Jacobins. Leopold felt the most tender and paternal interest in the prosperity of the new constitution: but he was forced to make a declaration of war against that formidable, that atrocious sect. To the Jacobins is owing every outrage committed by popular fury, and every treasonable design conceived by the 189aristocratic factions. The Jacobins are the contrivers of all disorder, the levellers of all distinctions, and the enemies of all subordination. It is their intention to overturn the present system of government, and divide the French empire into eighty-three republics, governed by Jacobins.
