"It was expected that he would have re-asserted the justice of his cause; that he would have re-animated whatever remained to him of his allies, and endeavoured to recover those whom their fears had led astray; that he would have re-kindled the martial ardour of his citizens; that he would have held out to them the example of their ancestry, the assertor of Europe, and the scourge of French ambition; that he would have reminded them of a posterity, which if this nefarious robbery, under the fraudulent name and false colour of a government, should in full power be seated in the heart of Europe, must for ever be consigned to vice, impiety, barbarism, and the most ignominious slavery of body and mind."
Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France [Letters on a Regicide Peace]
At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1796, 1797).<br> 
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Text from <u>Select Works of Edmund Burke. A New Imprint of the Payne Edition</u>, Foreword and Biographical Note by Francis Canavan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999). Vol. 3. &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/658">Link to OLL</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France</u> (London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=o9RbAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;