no one will deny him, his writings prove to me, that no one more ardently loved the liberty and prosperity of his country; that to its welfare he consecrated his midnight: studies, all his thoughts, his affection, his fortune, and repose. That even the very work wherein he has developed those maxims for which he is so much reviled, (the Prince), "is perhaps a most splendid proof of patriotism, and as enlightened as ardent; that, to appreciate the greater part of his counsels, we must refer to the time, place, and circumstances, under which he wrote; and, above all, the hypothesis in which he places himself in writing. Then, not only my scruples vanished, but I deemed it a service to my country to translate all his works; being convinced, that to pre-sent him entire to the public, was the only mode of displaying him in his true light, and the surest way not only of re-establishing the author's reputation, which is of secondary moment, but to remove from his maxims the unfavour-
