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• Editor’s Foreword
• Editor’s Note
• Introduction
• Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, On the Proposals For Peace With the Regicide Directory of France By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
• Letter I: On the Overtures of Peace
• Letter II: On the Genius and Character of the French Revolution As It Regards Other Nations
• A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, On the Proposals For Peace With the Regicide Directory of France By the Late Right Honourable Edmund Burke
• Letter IV: To the Earl Fitzwilliam
• Notes

Notes

The references to “vol. i.” and “vol. ii.” are to the “Select Works” of Burke. For many of the notes which follow, as in the case of those two volumes, the editor has to tender his best thanks to John Frederick Boyes, Esq.

Letter I

Letter II

Letter III

Letter IV

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Select Works of Edmund Burke

volume 3

l. 34. Mussabat tacito, &c. Lucretius, Lib. vi. 1178.

P. 102, l. 34. Ut lethargicus, &c. Horace, Sat. Lib. ii. 3. 30.

l. 33. Hic auratis, &c. Virgil, Aen. viii. 655.