What follows is a tremendous and familiar passage. My simple question is: When Burke refers to "all that was to follow", does he mean the entire revolution or just the assembly? Cheers.
"Judge, Sir, of my surprise, when I found that a very great proportion of the assembly (a majority, I believe, of the members who attended) was composed of practitioners in the law. It was composed, not of distinguished magistrates, who had given pledges to their country of their science, prudence, and integrity; not of leading advocates, the glory of the bar; not of renowned professors in universities- but for the far greater part, as it must in such a number, of the inferior, unlearned, mechanical, merely instrumental members of the profession. There were distinguished exceptions, but the general composition was of obscure provincial advocates, of stewards of petty local jurisdictions, country attorneys, notaries, and the whole train of the ministers of municipal litigation, the fomenters and conductors of the petty war of village vexation. From the moment I read the list, I saw distinctly, and very nearly as it has happened, all that was to follow."
edit: corrected a weird typographical error reflected in the source (lazily c&p'd from http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791burke.asp )
He probably means the Estates General, and their rebellion. He's concerned with the power the Third Estate had, and what individuals would end up wielding it. What ended up happening was basically what he's worried about in the paragraph above, which is that the two other estates ended up having to go along with the agenda the "obscure provincial advocates" were dictating,.
His powers of premonition would have had to be even better than he's implying here for it to be about the entire revolution, considering it was written in 1791.