The Assembly, at once master and slave, new in power, wild in theory, raw in practice, engrossing all functions without being able to exercise any, has freed that fierce, ferocious people from every restraint of religion and respect...

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Such a state of things cannot last...

The glorious opportunity is lost and for this time, at least, the Revolution has failed." We see, from the replies of Washington, that he is of the same opinion.
On the other side of the Channel, Pitt, the ablest practician, and Burke, the ablest theorist, of political liberty, express the same judgment.

Pitt, after 1789, declares that the French have overleaped freedom.