Avi,
Burke wrote that in 1774 when he was a leading young Enlightenment writer in Britain
He was in his writings and his parliamentary votes invariably on the Whig side of things.
This was prior to his later becomig one of the leading articulators of conservatives
[or for some, reactionary] After the start of the French Revolution
As T Jefferson quipped greater “than the Revolution in France,is the revolution in Mr.Burke”