Burke's Interpretation of the French Revolution

In a well regulated commonwealth these two passions in human beings will be held in equilibrium. So these two tendencies and inclination towards deference and inclination towards competition hold each other in some form of equilibrium. Well let's get on to the French Revolution. It occurs in 1789. Does Burke witness events firsthand? No, Burke had been to France 16 years earlier as he himself records in his great book on the revolution published a year after its outbreak called the Reflections on the Revolution in France. From 1789 onwards until his death he wasn't in France and therefore all his information about developments depended on reports, correspondence and the reading of newspapers. What was his interpretation of the French Revolution? It