That his ambition is insatiate, no one will attempt to deny; his scheme is universal empire, and every step he takes is directed to the completion of his object. But in this he is not singular: there is not a monarch on earth, who, with the same probability of success, would not aspire to attain it. That such views and the means adopted to attain such objects are sinful in the eyes of God, must be evident to every Christian. But all wars are equally sinful, if we reason upon the principle that God is no respecter of persons, and that all men are equal in his all-seeing eye; therefore it is evident, that, reasoning on the principles of Christianity, all are equally to be condemned.
I have been thus diffuse, in order to undeceive my countrymen with respect to Buonaparte, and the actual situation of France, in order that they may advocate the return of peace when the war has no other object than the restoration of the Bourbons to the crown of France—IT IS AN EVENT WHICH CANNOT HAPPEN, even
