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Excerpt from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 1 ON the appearance of the add vertifement, all newfpapers, and all letters have been kept back from me till this time. Mrs. Burke opened your's, and finding that all the meafures in the power of Dr. King, yourfelf, and Mr. Woodford, had been taken to fupprefs the publication, the ventured to deliver me the letters to-day, which were read to me in my bed, about two o'clock. 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.

This book explores Edmund Burke's economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.

Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.