to France, for he has never chosen to make the wars of policy and ambition, the scourge of literature; on the contrary, he encourages it as a prince ought to do, and thereby sows the seed of his own immortality: for who is blind enough not to foresee that, in fostering genius as he does, he must infallibly make his name immortal: and, when ages shall have rolled away, and the memory of every prince of continental Europe shall be buried in oblivion, his name will stand recorded on the page of history, less as a conqueror, than as the nurse of genius and protector of the arts and sciences. For, when our prejudices have destroyed themselves, and the crimes of Buonaparte are lost in the splendour of his achievements, history, with an impartial hand, will trace the character of our enemy thus:—" When genius wandered over the world, forlorn, wretched, and despised; and ignorance, bigotry, and intrigue occupied her seat at the courts of the princes of Europe, and left her to
