“I do, indeed, consider the French revolution as
the severest trial which the visitation of Providence has ever yet
inflicted upon the nations of the earth; but I cannot help reflecting,
with satisfaction, that this country, even under such trial, has not
only been exempted from those calamities which have covered almost every
other part of Europe, but appears to have been reserved as a refuge and
asylum to those who fled its persecution, as a barrier to oppose its
progress, and, perhaps, ultimately as an instrument to deliver the world
from the crimes and miseries which have attended it.”
| — | William Pitt, 3 February 1800, in Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 4, p.2. |
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