Acknowledgements Introduction Edmund Burke: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Reflections on the Revolution in France(Abridged) Appendix A: Background Materials 1. From Sir George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer(1688) 2. The Bill of Rights (1689) 3. From Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful(1757) 4. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (26 August 1789) 5. From Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country(4 November 1789) 6. Congratulatory Address from the Revolution Society to the National Assembly of France (4 November 1789) Appendix B: Burke and the American Revolution Appendix C: Burke''s First Responses to the French Revolution 1. From a Letter to the Earl of Charlemont (9 August 1789) 2.
From a Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont (November 1789) 3. From "Substance of the Speech on the Army Estimates" (9 February 1790) Appendix D: Burke''s Later Thoughts on the Revolution 1. From Thoughts on French Affairs(December 1791) 2. From Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France(October 1793) 3. From Letters on a Regicide Peace(1795-97) a. From Letter I: "On the Overtures of Peace" (1796) b. From Letter II: "On the Genius and Character of the French Revolution as It Regards Other Nations" (1796) Appendix E: Burke on Reform and Innovation 1. From "Speech on St.
George''s Fields Massacre" (8 March 1769) 2. From Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents(1770) 3. From "Speech on the Bill for Explaining the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels" (7 March 1771) 4. From "Speech on Presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th February, 1780) a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the Economical Reformation of the Civil and Other Establishments" (1780) 5. From "Speech on a Motion Made in the House of Commons, the 7th of May, 1782, for a Committee to Inquire into the State of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament" (1782/84) 6. From An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs(1791) 7. From A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the Subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland(1792) 8. From A Letter to a Noble Lord(1796) Appendix F: Burke on Rousseau and "The Philosophy of Vanity" 1.
From A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly in Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs(1791) Appendix G: Contemporary Responses to Burke''s Censure of the French Revolution 1. The Mercer-Burke Correspondence (February 1790) a. Thomas Mercer to Edmund Burke (19 February 1790) b. Edmund Burke to Thomas Mercer (26 February 1790) 2. Philip Francis, from a Letter to Edmund Burke (3 November 1790) 3. From Frances Burney (Madame D''Arblay), The Diary and Letters of Madame D''Arblay(1778-1840) 4. From Richard Price, Preface to A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, 4th ed. (1790) 5.
From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France(1790) 6. From Catherine Macaulay, Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France(1790) 7. From Joseph Priestley, Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France(1791) 8. From Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke''s Attack on the French Revolution(1791) 9. Jane Burke, from a Letter to William Burke (21 March 1791) 10. Thomas Jefferson, from a Letter to Benjamin Vaughan (11 May 1791) 11.
From James Mackintosh, Vindiciae Gallicae: Defence of the French Revolution and Its English Admirers, against the Accusations of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke(1791) 12. The Mackintosh-Burke Correspondence (December 1796) a. James Mackintosh to Edmund Burke (22 December 1796) b. Edmund Burke to James Mackintosh (23 December 1796) Appendix H: "Delivered Over to Infamy at the End of a Long Life" 1. Selections from Burke''s two speeches on the Quebec Bill (May 1791) Works Cited and Select Bibliography.