CONTENTS OP THE SECOND VOLUME. . . . Prospects on the Rubicon . 6 Rights of Man, Part I. Being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on The French Revolution 41 Rights of Man, Part II. Combining principles and practice 145 Letter to the authors of the Republican 263 to the Abbe Sieyes 267 Address to the Addressers 269 Letters to Lord Onslow 317 Dissertation on First Principles of Government . 325 Speech delivered in the French national convention 345 Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas, letter the first 353 The decline and fall of the English system of Finance 365 Leiter to the people of France 389 Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet, as delivered to the national convention 393 Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Mo nopoly 399 Letter to the People of France, and the French armies, on the event of the 18th Fructidor--(Sep. 4, 1797), and its consequences 417 Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas, letter the second 437 to the sheriff of the county of Sussex 441 to Sir Archibald Macdonald, Attorney General, letter the first 445 to the Attorney General, on the prosecution against the second part of Rights of Man 449 Letter on the propriety of bringing Louis XVI. to trial 452 Speech in the national convention on the question, "shall or shall not a respite of the sentence of Louis XVI. take place" 456 On Louisiana and emissaries ... 457 A challenge to the federalists to declare their principles 460 Liberty of the press 463 The einissary Cullen, otherwise Carpenter 466 Communication on Cullen 469 Federalists beginning w reform 472 474 Notifications respecting the impostor Cullen, alias M'Cullen, alius Carpenter, the associate of the Federalists of New York . 478 . . To a friend of peace . PREFACE, An expression in the British parliament respecting the American war, alluding to Julius Cæsar having passed the Rubicon, has on several occasions introduced that river as the figurative river of war. Fortunately for England, she is yet on the peaceable side of the Rubicon ; but as the flames once kindled are not always easily extinguished, the hopes of peace are not so clear as before the late mysterious dispute began. But while the calm lasts, it may answer a very good purpose to take a view of the prospects, consistent with the maxim, that he that goeth to war should first sit down and count the cost. The nation has a young and ambitious minister at its head, fond of himself, and deficient in experience: and instances have often shown that judgment is a different thing from genius, and that the affairs of a nation are but unsafely trusted where the benefit of experience is wanting. Illustrations have been drawn from the circumstances of the war before last, to decorate the character of the present minister, and, perhaps, they may have been greatly over-drawn ; for the management must have been bad to have done less than what was then done, when we impartially consider the means, the force, and the quantity of money employed, |