I take the liberty to inclose for your perusal a proposal, to which I refer you. A correct and impartial history of the French revolution was very much wanted. The works of this kind which have appeared, were written in the heat of factions, and under the bias of party spirit; nor have any given accounts further down, than the trial and almost total extinction of the royal family. The different and subsequent relations of campaigns, or political changes, have formed separate, detached, and imperfect works. This will be the first that will comprise a whole history of that astonishing revolution, and the continuance, which I shall give down to a general peace, will render it a complete document. As an American production, I am induced to hope that it will receive a generous encouragement, to which alone it must be indebted for its appearance, since the immense cost necessary to make it public will require a large capital.

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