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MEMOIRS, ILLUSTRATING THE

HISTORY OF JACOBINISM, A TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH OF

The abbe BARRUEL.

PART

I.

VOL. L

THE ANTICHRISTIAN CONSPIRACY.

HylR r FORD: PRÎNTED BY HUDSON b" GOODWIN FOR CORNELIUS DAV15, No. 94i WATER-STREET, NEW-YORK.

1799,

PREFACE TRANSLATOR.

Reader,

the work INexpect the

you, you are not to of imagination ; truth Hiftory has alone is the objeft of this refearch. always been confidered as the fchool in which the ftatefman is to learn the art of government ; the citizen to read with awe of thofe difaftrous days of bloodfhed and rapine, expreffed by the term Revolution. This work will lay open the mofl; terrible, and perhaps the mod aflonifhing concatenation of intrigue, that has ever entered the mind of man, to bring about the dreadful revolution, with which all Europe has been conlaid

before

beauties

vulfed.

The Firft Part will contain. The AntichrisTiAN Conspiracy, or that of the Sophijlers of Impieiy

againft the

God

of Chriftianity, and a-

translator's PREFACE.

ÎV

every religion and every altar, whether Catholic, Lutheran or Calvinift, provided it be but Chriflian. gainft

Proteftant or

The Second Part will fliow. The Anti-moNARCHiCAL CONSPIRACY, or that of û\Q SephifUrs of

hnpiety, coalefcing

with thofe of Rebellion

againft all kings.

The Third Part will demonflrate The Antisocial Conspiracy, or that of the Sophi/iers of Impiety coalefcing with thofe of Anarchy againft: every religion, againft: every government, without even excepting the republican, aguinfl: all civil fociety and all property whatever. The firfl: of thefe confpiracies was that of thofe men called Philofophers. The fécond that of the Philofophers united with the Occult Lodges of the Freemafons.* The third was that of the Philofophers and the Occult-Mafons coalefced

with the Illuminés, It is

who

generated the Jacobins.

we

with confidence that

prefent the

firft:

volume to the public, after the approbation which one of the mofi: difl:inguiflied authors of the age, both for his political knowledge, and the noble ardor he has ihown in his writings to fubdue the growiaig evil, was pleafed to exprefs, when he read the firft: volume of the French original. He was flattering enough to fay, in writing to the author, " The whole of the wonderful nar" rative is fupported by documents and proofs, * We fay Occult Lodges, as the Freemafons in general were far from being acquainted with the confpiracies of tlie Occult Lodges ; and indeed many were not people to be tampered with. It might be objefted, that all lodges were occult with regard to the public they were fo but befides the common lodges, there exifted others which were hidden from the generality of the Freemafons. It is thofe which the author ftyles Arriéres Loges, and that we have tranflatcd by Occult :

;

Lodges.

TRANSLATOR

s

PR£rACE.

with the moft juridical regularity and exad-

The

reflexions and reafonings are inw ith infinite judgment, and in their moft proper places, for leading the fentiments of the reader and preventing the force of plaufible objeftions. The tendency of the whole is admirable in every point of view, political, religious and philofopliical.'* nefs.

terfperfed

After fuch a decided opinion on the French original, /the tranflator cannot but think

he has fulfilled in laying fueh a

work open

it

a duty

to thofe

countrymen, who may not be fufhciently and if in fo crit; ical a moment, he can, by this means, ferve his country, he is willing to take upon himfelf all thofe inaccuracies of ftyle, which are too fre* quent in tranfiations, efpecially when done ia hafte. That the reader may be inftrufted in thefe dreadful plots, and be acquainted with the whole of

his

verfed in the French language

and nothing but the

truth,

is

the fincere wifh of

the

TRANSLATOR. It

would be

tions the

ufelefs to add, that in

raofl: literal

all

quota-

e^actnefs has been obferved.

CONTENTS.

PPage RELIMINART DISCOURSE

Chap.

I.

Chap.

II.

Chap.

Of

III.

the Principal

Adors

ix

of the Confpiracy

i

Of

the Objeél, Extent, and Exigence of the Antichriftian ConlpirHcy -

The

Secret, the

15

Union and the Epoch of

the Confpiracy

-

zz

-

MEANS OF THE CONSPIRATORS. Chap. IV.

Firft

Means of

the Confpirators

Chap. V. Second Means of

—The

the

—Extinâion Orders

—

all

-

Chap. VIII.

^Voltaire's

Fifth

the Religious -

59

the Confpirators.

Colony

Means of

-

—

the

73

Confpirators.

.79

Inundation of Antichrifti^p Wri-

tings

69

the Confpirators.

—^The Academic Honors

Chap. IX. Sixth Means of

43

the Confpirators.

of

Chap. VII. Fourth Means of •

Confpirators.

Extifidion of the Jefuits

Chap. VI» Third Means of

31

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CONTENTS. Chap. X. Of

^

the Spoliations and Violences projeaed by the Confpirators, and concealed under

the

Chap. XI. .

6

Name

of Toleration

Part, Miflion

and

private

qq

.

Means of each of

*^^ ^^*i^^s ^^ the Antichriftian Confpiràcy

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ADEPTS AND PROTECTORS.

Chap. XII. Progrefs of Voltaire.

the

Confpiracy under of Proteflors.

Firft Clafs

Crowned Adepts

Chap. XIII. Of

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Chap. XIV. Third

—

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n^

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Adept Princes

the

celTes

-

and. Prin-

..-

Av...

^^6

Clafs of protefting Adept?.

Minifters,

Noblemen, and Ma-

giftrates

.

,

.

Chap. XV. The Clafs—Of Men of Letteis noj.u

Chap. XVI. Condud of

o:f)-

'!-!.

New tors,

162 r.t.iiZ

the Clergy towards the Anti-

chriftian Confpirators.

Chap. XVII.

j -.»

-

1-75

anddeepçr Means of the Confpiratofeduceeven the lo-^veft ClaiTes of

the People

-

.

jga

Chap. XVIII. Of

the general Progrefs of the Confpiracy throughout Europe. Triumph and Death of the Chiefs igy

—

Chap. XIX. Of

-,

the great DeluÇon which rendered the Confpiracy againft the Altar fo fuccefsful 208

•

Preliminary Difcourfe*

J\Ti an

early period of the

appeared

a fe£t calling itfelf

French Revolution, there Jacobin, and teaching that ell men ivere equal and free ! In the name of their equality and diforgi^nizing liberty, they trampled under toot the altar and the throne ; they ftimulated all nations to rebellion, and aimed at plunging them ultimately into the horrors of anarchy. At its firft appearance, this ffc£l counted 300,000 and it was fupported by two million-s of men, adepts fcattered through France, armed with torches and -,

pikes, and It

all

the fire-brands of revolution.

was under the

aufpices of this fe£t, by their in-

and their impulfe, that France prey to every crime ; that its foil was flained with the blood of its pontiffs and priefts, of its rich men and nobles ; with the blood of every clafs of its citizens, without regard to rank, age or fex Thefe were the men who, after having madt the unfortunate Lewis XVI. his Queen and Sifter, drink to the very dregs the cup of outrage and ignominy during a long confirtment, folemnly murdered them on a fcafFold, proudly menacing the fovereigns of the earth with a trigues, their influence,

beheld

itfelf

a*

!

Cmilar fate Thefe are the men who have made the French Revolution a fccurge to all Europe, a terror to its Powers, who vainly combine to flop the progrefs of their revolutionary armies, more numerous and de!

ftru6live than the inundationb oi the Vandals.

Whciice originated from the bowels of the Vol.

I.

thele

men, who feem

earth,

who

B

to arife

ftart into exiftenc«

PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.

s

with their plans and thunders,

their

whence,

I fay, this

of adepts,

their projeds, their tenets

their

means and ferocious

devouring fe£l

thefe fyflems,

?

Whence

and

refolvcs

this

;

fwarm

this frantic rage againfl the

altar

and the throne, againft every

civil

or religious, fo

Can

their primogeniture in the order of the revolution

them

much

whether by our anceftors ?

inftitution,

refpe

J^£

"

error may be that of a few individuals. ?:^' 73- y ^ of the fame fort had been broached during the^^'^?/'''-^^

Such an

Many

two aft centuries. Numerous were the fedls had fprung from Luther and Calvin, each making 1

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