Excerpt from Thoughts on the Present State of French Politics, and the Necessity and Policy of Diminishing France, for Her Internal Peace, and to Secure the Tranquility of Europe The excefl'es, the follies, and the villan'ies of the French have, however, retarded the {pleading of liberty over the world in a mofl eflefiual manner: they have thrown difg'r'ace upon the heft of caufis, 'and their efi'ort's have been In ill direeted, and have coil fo dear. 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.