Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year 1801, Vol. 71: Part the First View prefents itfelf France, the fource of all revolution ary mifchief, ruined in its confiitution, polity, and morals. Without a government, for who can promife a month's fe curity to the prel'ent Rulers without laws, for her people are told they are not ripe fora code of civilization; without commerce, for there' is no tariff or commercial treaty without food, for there is no agriculture; labour performed by'women and boys; and bread dearer than with us, where it is dear enough without education, for people mufi live before they can learn, and all good habits are, difl'olved without religion, for who can trufi an indeterminate Can cordat. Paris (lclcrilwd by the few who have fern it as a fink of vice, folly, and tliflipation, mutually adminifiering to each other in The face of the country lamentably changed, and fome of the fineft parts under water. Cu ri - ofity, damped with this melancholy reflection that its oh jects are a mafs of ill-gotten plunder. Add to all this, as if Heaven, cc-operating by natural caufes, had taken up the fcourge of inundation for a guilty Continent, of which how large a part may fay, What benefit has the hit Century brought to us i. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.