out for a model to new princes, though stained with every crime. The reader will therefore bear in mind what we have already said on the dreadful state of Italy at that period, (vide page 27); so that, if he had succeeded, it would have been a service to suffering humanity to cut off all the heads of the hydra, and by establishing one great power in Italy free it from the perpetual intestine commotions which had so long desolated it.
Finding Romagnia convulsed by factions, infested by robbers, and full of all disorders, he adopted a system of terror to reduce it to obedience, and establish tranquillity. When this was attained, he did, as all other princes do by the tools of their iniquity, sacrifice him to popular vengeance. This conduct is undoubtedly politically good, though it is morally wrong; for, as I have already observed, policy and religion cannot go hand in hand. In every thing, excepting atrocity, Buonaparte resembles Cæsar Borgia, whose only political error was his suffering a Pope to be elected
