that a good understanding may perpetually subsist between the people and the throne; and that ministers may endeavour to palliate, rather than exasperate; for when a change once begins, no one knows where it will end. Unanimous, we are invincible; and can never be conquered, unless we conquer ourselves; for Buonaparte is only invincible because his enemies are at variance with themselves.
From hereditary principalities, our author proceeds to mixt principalities, by which he understands one incorporated with or annexed to another. And here we recognize the preceptor of Buonaparte—here we find the principles he has pursued in all his successes, and here is developed the mystery of his becoming the mediator of Switzerland, protector, and afterwards king of Italy, and protector of the Confederation of the Rhine; thus, in the latter case, as Machiavelli observes, becoming the defender of the weaker princes against the more powerful. The formation of this composite power is of great avail to Buona-
