Emphemeral Look at the Seed of Europe's Crises: Benjamin Vaughn - The Concert of Princes (1793)

[VAUGHN, Benjamin]  Letters, on the subject of the concert of princes, and the dismemberment of Poland and France. (first published in the Morning Chronicle between July 20, 1792, and June 25, 1793.) With corrections and additions. By a calm observer. [ The second edition.] London : printed for G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793] An ephemeral & contemporary look at the European struggles that would haunt the Continent (& world) for centuries. In the long march of history, the 18th century set up a lot of pins, poised to fall in the subsequent two centuries, culminating (arguably) with World War I. In this second edition of “Letters, on the Subject of the Concert of Princes, and the Dismemberment of Poland and France,” published the same year as the first, a Calm Observer (ie Benjamin Vaughan) defends revolutionary rights, and, among other radical ideas, condemns the attacks on Poland and France. He also uses his pseudonym as a Calm Observer to criticiz