"Vive l'Empereur!” "Vive notre Empereur Napoleon le Grand!" Though, if we might hazard our sentiments on the occasion, we should say, that much evil has occurred to Great Britain from the constant endeavour to depreciate his genius, and underrate his talents, thereby deceiving ourselves to our own wrong. Yet, who shall dare to call the enemy of his country great? one whom the general voice has reprobated by every ignominious term which the genius of the language afforded; and held up to public scorn, contempt, and hate, till the prodigies he performed compelled us, in spite of ourselves, to acknowledge him "a wonderful man."
Incalculable are the miseries which have resulted from this system: every scheme we have adopted to arrest the progress of his victorious arms, has failed, and our numerous "diversions" in favour of our allies have, in reality, proved a diversion to Buonaparte!—they failed, because we did not think it worth while to study the character of the enemy, as a statesman and a
