THE WORKS
OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
EDMUND BURKE
IN TWELVE VOLUMES
VOLUME THE FOURTH
London
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
MDCCCLXXXVII
CONTENTS OF VOL IV.
- LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, IN ANSWER TO SOMEOBJECTIONS TO HIS BOOK ON FRENCH AFFAIRS 1
- APPEAL FROM THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS 57
- LETTER TO A PEER OF IRELAND ON THE PENAL LAWS AGAINST IRISHCATHOLICS 217
- LETTER TO SIR HERCULES LANGRISHE, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ROMANCATHOLICS OF IRELAND 241
- HINTS FOR A MEMORIAL TO BE DELIVERED TO MONSIEUR DE M.M. 307
- THOUGHTS ON FRENCH AFFAIRS 313
- HEADS FOR CONSIDERATION ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS 379
- REMARKS ON THE POLICY OF THE ALLIES WITH RESPECT TO FRANCE: WITHAN APPENDIX 403
A
LETTER
TO
A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,
IN
ANSWER TO SOME OBJECTIONS TO HIS BOOK ON FRENCH AFFAIRS.
1791.
Sir,—I had the honor to receive your letter of the 17th of Novemberlast, in which, with some exceptions, you are pleased to considerfavorably the letter I have written on the affairs of France. I shallever accept any mark of approbation attended with instruction with morepleasure than general and unqualified praises. The latter can serve onlyto flatter our vanity; the former, whilst it encourages us to proceed,may help to improve us in our progress.
Some of the errors you point out to me in my printed letter are reallysuch. One only I find to be material. It is corrected in the editionwhich I take the liberty of sending to you. As to the cavils which maybe made on some part of my remarks with regard to the gradations inyour new Constitution, you observe justly that they do not affect thesubstance of my objections. Whether there be a round more or less in theladder of representation by which your workmen ascend from theirparochial tyranny to their federal anarchy, when the whole scale isfalse, appears to me of little or no importance.
I published my thoughts on that Constitution, that my countrymen