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Les revolutions qui arrivent dans les grands etats ne sont point un effect du hazard, ni du
caprice des peuples. Rein ne revolte les grands d'un royaume comme un gouvernement
foible et derangé. Pour la populace, ce n'est jamais par envie d' attaquer qu'elle se
souleve, mais par impatience de souffrir.
Memoires de Sully. Tom I. P. 133.

Though this be madness, yet there's method in it!

Hamlet, Act II. Scene II.

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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.

As no other record of the transactions which led to and followed the death of M. Kotzebue, has extended beyond the limits of a few newspaper paragraphs, all of which are extremely contradictory and imperfect, the Editor presumes it is unnecessary to make any apology for the present publication. The Memoir, though no doubt susceptible of considerable improvement, is that which has been received and circulated as the most authentic in Germany; and although the Defence of the Universities may give rise to a difference of opinion, as to the author's success in establishing their complete vindication; there can be but one sentiment

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