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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on
the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up, by Thomas Paine
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Title: A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up
Author: Thomas Paine
Release Date: March 7, 2005 [EBook #15279]
Language: English
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ***
Produced by Steven Gibbs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBE RAYNAL,
ON THE
_AFFAIRS OF NORTH AMERICA_;
IN WHICH THE MISTAKES IN THE ABBE's ACCOUNT
OF THE
_REVOLUTION of AMREICA_ [_sic_]
ARE CORRECTED AND CLEARED UP.
* * * * *
BY THOMAS PAINE,
SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS, DURING THE AMERICAN WAR,
AND AUTHOR OF COMMON SENSE, AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN.
* * * * *
_LONDON_:
PRINTED FOR J. RIDGEWAY, NO. 1, YORK-STREET, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE.
M,DCC,XII. [_sic_, actually 1792]
INTRODUCTION.
A London translation of an original work in French, by the Abbe
Raynal, which treats of the Revolution of North America, having been
reprinted in Philadelphia and other parts of the continent, and as the
distance at which the Abbe is placed from the American theatre of war
and politics, has occasioned him to mistake several facts, or
misconceive the causes or principles by which they were produced; the
following tract, therefore, is published with a view to rectify them,
and prevent even accidental errors intermixing with history, under the
sanction of time and silence.
The Editor of the London edition has entitled it, "The Revolution of
America, by the Abbe Raynal," and the American printers have followed
the example. But I have understood, and I believe my information just,
that the piece, which is more properly reflections on the revolution,
was unfairly purloined from the printer which the Abbe employed, or
from the manuscript copy, and is only part of a larger work then in
the press, or preparing for it. The person who procured it appears to
have been an Englishman; and though, in an advertisement prefixt to
the London edition, he has endeavoured to gloss over the embezzlement
with professions of patriotism, and to soften it with high encomiums
on the author, yet the action, in any view in which it can be placed,
is illiberal and unpardonable.
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