Editor's introduction. I. The publication of James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) ; II. The Scottish underpinning of Vindiciæ Gallicæ ; III. Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution ; IV. The defence of the National Assembly ; V. The violence of the French Revolution ; VI. The defence of the new French constitution of 1791 ; VII. The defence of the principles of 1688 ; VIII. Mackintosh's revision of Vindiciæ Gallicæ