I will take this opportunity of adding, with the same intention, a few reflections on the present circumstances of our own and of a neighbouring country.
With regard to France--I have no hesitation in declaring, that the object which the French seemed to have in view at the commencement of their revolution had my hearty approbation.

The object was to free themselves and their posterity from arbitrary power.

I hope there is not a man in Great Britain so little sensible of the blessings of that free constitution under which he has the happiness to live, so entirely dead to the interests of general humanity, as not to wish that a constitution similar to our own might be established, not only in France, but in every despotic state in Europe; not only in Europe, but in every quarter of the globe.
It is one thing to approve of an end, another to approve of the means by which an end is accomplished.

I did not approve of the means by which the first revolution was effected in France.

I thought that it would have been a wiser measure to have abridged the oppressive privileges, and to have lessened the enormous number of the nobility, than to have abolished the order.