EDMUND GARRATT was educated at the University of Sussex and at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests lie in Eighteenth-century Literature and History. He has published essays on James Mackintosh, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb. He currently lives and works in Cambridgeshire.

• Introduction The publication of James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) The Scottish underpinning of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution The defence of the National Assembly The violence of the French Revolution The defence of the new French Constitution of 1791 The defence of the principles of 1688 Mackintosh's revision of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Note on the Text Selected Reading Vindiciæ Gallicæ Appendix