FLOWER'S POLITICAL REVIEW, AND MONTHLY REGISTER. VOL. II. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1807. WHAT IS MORALLY WRONG CAN NEVER BE POLITICALLY C. J. FOX. THE SAME NECESSITY FOR THE SUBSTITUTION OF GENERAL MAXIMS PRINCIPLES, WHICH YIELD NEITHER TO THE SEDUCTIONS OF PASSION, NOR MACKINTOSH. HARLOW: PRINTED BY B. FLOWER: FOR JONES AND BUMFORD, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON: UNITED KINGDOM. PREFACE. THE editor of this work on presenting the Second Volume to the public, will express himself with the same frankness as in the preface to the First Volume. He has made a liberal use of the common channels of information for rendering his publication more generally known, which circumstance, together with the exertions of his friends, has occasioned some increase in the sale. Justice to himself, however, requires him to add, that, as the profit attending the publication is by no means adequate to the labour and expence,-unless the sale should considerably increase, the ensuing Volume will be the last. As the meeting of parliament is at band, he informs his readers, that as many of them objected to the Parliamentary Proceedings as formerly detailed, they will in future be given in a more abridged state. In making this alteration, the editor gives up his own opinion. It was his wish that the sentiments of our senators should by every possible means be preserved in the recollection of their constituents; at the same time, he acknowledges, that cogent reasons may be assigned for a contrary opinion. The honour of the British name and character requires, perhaps, that the sentiments and conduct of the majority in parliament, should as speedily as possible be buried in oblivion! The editor having for some years observed, not inattentively, the complexion of the times, is firmly persuaded, that could he have closely united himself with some party, A 2 |