PRINTED FOR J. DOD SLEY, IN PALL-MALL.

M.DCC.Xc,

I T, may not be unnecessary to inform the Reader,

that the following Reflections bad their origin in a correspondence between the Author and a very 'young gentleman at Paris, who did him the honour of depiring his opinion upon the important transactions, which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. An answer was written fome time in the month of O&tober 1789; but it was kept back upon prudential considerations. That letter is alluded to in the beginning of the following sheets. It has been fince forwarded to the person to whom it was addressed. The reasons for the delay in sending it were asigned in a short letter to the same gentleman. This produced on bis part a new and prefing application for the Author's fentiments.

The Author began a second and more full discusfion on the fubjet. This, he had some thoughts of publishing early in the last Spring ; but the matter gaining upon him, he found that what be had undertaken not only far exceeded the measure of a letter, but that its importance required rather a more detailed confideration than at that time be had any leisure to bestow upon it. However, having thrown down his first thoughts in the form of a letter, and indeed when he sat down to write, having intended