Hello! Welcome to this website. Here, you’ll find individual webpages for each chapter of part I of Joel Barlow’s 1792 political treatise, Advice to the Privileged Orders of Europe. This fascinating document, controversial in its day but now relatively obscure, contains intriguing observations on various political matters in Europe during the French Revolution from the perspective of an American man of letters. As a text of applied political theory, Barlow’s treatise makes the world of Eighteenth Century intellectual history and political culture come alive!