Buonaparte has invariably pursued the dọc-trines of Machiavelli, as laid down in “The Prince."
With Machiavelli in one hand, and his sword in the other, the one performing the dictates of the other, he has crushed empires, and subjected the continent of Europe to his sway; so striking a coincidence may be shewn in every part between Buonaparte and his model, even to the deprivation of the Pope's temporal power, that to translate Machiavelli is to write the life of Buonaparte, and the secret history of the court of St. Cloud.
Before we proceed to this illustration of the principles of Buonaparte's conduct, it may not be improper to pause for a moment on the character of his model.
"The name of Machiavelli, as the French translator of his works observes, appears to be consecrated by every modern idiom to recal and even to express the highest degree of political criminality and atrocity. The greater part of those who pronounce it, like every other expression of a
