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FROM THE REVOLUTION, IN 1688, TO THE PRESENT TIME :

PRINTED BY AND FOR RICHARD FOLWELL, No. 33, MULBERRY-STXEET,

1795.

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HE first edition of The Political Progrefs of Britain was publifhed at Edinburgh and London, in Autumn, 1792 The fale was lively, and the profpect of future fuccefs flattering. The plan was, to give an impartial history of the abufes in government, in a series of pamphlets. But while the author was preparing for the prefs, a fecond number, along with a nev ition of the firft, he was, on the 2d of January, 1793, apprehended, and with fome difficulty made his efcape. Two bookfellers, who acted as his editors, were profecuted; and after a very arbitrary trial, they were condemned, the one to three months, and the other to fix months of imprisonment. A revolution will take place in Scotland before the lapfe of ten years at fartheft, and most likely much fooner... The Scots nation will then certainly think itself bound, by every tie of wifdom, of gratitude, and of juftice, to make reparation to these two honeft men, for the tyranny which they have encountered in the cause of truth. În Britain, authors and editors of pamphlets have long conducted the van of every revolution.. They compofe a kind of forlorn hope on the skirts of battle; and though they may often want experience, or influence, to marfhal the main body, they yet enjoy the honour and the danger of the first rank, in ftorming the ramparts of oppreffion..

The verdict of a packed jury, did not alter the opinions of those who had approved of the publication. Five times its original price hath, fince its fuppreffion, been offered in Edinburgh, for a copy. At London, a new edition was printed by Ridgway and Symonds, two bookfellers, confined in Newgate, for publishing political writings.. They fell the pamphlet, and others of the fame tendency, openly in prifon. It is next to impossible, for defpotifm to over-whelm the divine art of printing..

A copy of the first edition was handed to Mr. Jefferfon, late American Secretary of State. He spoke of it, on different occafions, in refpectful terms. He faid, that it contained, "the most "aftonishing concentration of abufes, that he had ever heard of "in any government." He enquired, why it was not printed in America? and faid, that he, for one, would gladly become a pur-chafer. Other gentlemen have delivered their opinions to the fame effect; and their encouragement was one caufe for the appearance of this American edition. In preparing it for the prefs,. a multiplicity of new materials prefented themselves to the re-.. collection of the writer. Hence the Introduction hath fwelled to more than its former fize. By indulging this habit of enlarging,