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PREFACE.
THE great changes which the transactions of the present year have introduced in the political system of Europe, and those still greater, which they seem capable of producing in their consequences, are matters of serious consideration to individuals as well as to states. It would not require a long succession of such events, to cause a total disarrangement of the European commercial, political, and even religious establishments. No equal portion of time, in the most rapid period of conquest, as been so fatal to public liberty, and the rights of mankind, as that which comprehends the overthrow of the constitution, in those great and extensive countries, of France, Sweden, and Poland. The breach that has been now made, in those compacts that unite states for their mutual benefit, establishes a most dangerous precedent; it deprives, in a great measure, every separate power