Reprinted from the edition of 1802, London International Standard Book Number: 0-404-02711-3 Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 73-118630 AMS PRESS, INC. STATE OF EUROPE BEFORE AND AFTER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; BEING AN ANSWER ΤΟ L'Etat de la France à la Fin de l'An VIII. BY FREDERICK GENTZ, TRANSLATED FROM THE CERMAN BY JOHN CHARLES HERRIES, Esa. London: PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO HER MAJESTY, OPPOSITE YORK HOUSE, PICCADILLY. 1802. INTRODUCTION BY THE TRANSLATOR. L'ETAT de la France à la Fin de l'An 8, was an anonymous publication at Paris in the autumn of 1800. The Author was not long concealed, and he was generally known to have written under the aufpices and authority of the French Government. The work itself betrayed its origin throughout. It was every where marked by the most invete. rate enmity to this country; and was evidently written with a view to convert the nations of the continent to the fame sentiment. It announced and explained a variety of plans for the gratification of the envy and hatred which it endeavoured to excite; and it ought rather to have been called A Differtation on the Neceffity and |