Napoleon in His Own Defence Being a Reprint of Certain Letters Written By Napol
Napoleon in His Own Defence Being a Reprint of Certain Letters Written By Napol
Shorter Clement King
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Cyr, who is their minister of war, did not follow their master to Ghent ? this surprises me. " Because, " replied he, " No Frenchman in his heart acknowledges the Bourbons as legitimate sovereigns. Even the Duke of Ragusa, if he had not been excepted from the am- nesty, would have remained in France, and never passed the frontier. This is the religion of the French ; national opinion is decidedly pronounced upon it. Are you, " continued he, " desirous of having an idea of the spirit which anima...tes the French ? Suppose, for example, that a million of Russians, Austrians, Prussians, Ger- mans, Dutch, French, Spaniards and Portugueze, seconded by a few traitors, who, under pretence of serving the Stuarts, should have joined them, had in- undated England and crowned a Stuart in London, first marching over the bodies of thousands of the brave defenders of their country, who had gloriously fallen in the struggle for independence ! What pray would be your feelings for such a king, imposed upon you by the wrath of an enemy?
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