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Excerpt from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Vol. 15 of 16: Chronologically Arranged and Edited With Notes and Indices; With Portraits and Facsimiles; 1791-1797 I see with pleasure that the Convention and the J acobins have been breaking, though'perhaps patched together again for the present. It will break out again. The former are wofully uneasy. They complain of factions everywhere, though trying to conceal their disasters by boasting of Victories but they display their wants and their deficits lament the loss of their commerce and manufactures which themselves have destroyed. They tremble at the crowds in Paris, and wish to thin them; are sick of anarchy; but their efforts to disperse the former, and to lessen the latter, will disperse the dissatisfaction through the pro vinces, and augment the latter. It is plain they fear not being able to retain the capital in obedience; and if they fail there, who is to, govern the armies These grievances will, I think, produce a civil war, or some kind of counter revolution. So be it! Neither. Will settle the country soon, nor is it to be wished it should be. It will require time to amend Frenchmen or Frenchwomen, were the task possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.