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ADVERTISEMENT. - Richard Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making it a Benefit to the World [1784]Edition used:Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making it a Benefit to the World. To which is added, a Letter from M. Turgot, late Comptroller-General of the Finances of France: with an Appendix, containing a Translation of the Will of M. Fortuné Ricard, lately published in France (London: T. Cadell, 1785).
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TO The Free and United States of AMERICA, THE FOLLOWING OBSERVATIONS ARE HUMBLY OFFERED, as A LAST TESTIMONY of THE GOOD-WILL of The Author. ADVERTISEMENT.HAVING reason to hope I should be attended to in the American States, and thinking I saw an opening there favourable to the improvement and best interests of mankind, I have been induced to convey thither the sentiments and advice contained in the following Observations. They were, therefore, originally intended only for America. The danger of a spurious edition has now obliged me to publish them in my own country. I should be inexcusable did I not take this opportunity to express my gratitude to a distinguished writer (the Count de Mirabeau) for his translation of these Observations into French, and for the support and kind civility with which it has been accompanied. Mr. Turgot’s letter formed a part of this tract when it was conveyed to America. I have now given a translation of it. I think it necessary to add that I have expressed myself in some respects too strongly in the conclusion of the following Observations. By accounts from persons the best informed, I have lately been assured that no such dissentions exist among the American States as have been given out in this country; that the new governments are in general well settled, and the people happy under them; and that, in particular, a conviction is becoming universal of the necessity of giving more strength to that power which forms and which is to conduct and maintain their union. March, 1785. |
