You have not recognized this universal public enemy as a part of the
system of Europe. You have refused to sully the lustre of your empire by
any communion with a body of fanatical usurpers and tyrants, drawn out
of the dregs of society, and exalted to their evil eminence by the
enormity of their crimes,--an assemblage of tyrants, wholly destitute of
any distinguished qualification in a single person amongst them, that
can command reverence from our reason, or seduce it from our
prejudices. These enemies of sovereigns, if at all acknowledged, must be
acknowledged on account of that enmity alone: they have nothing else to
recommend them.

Madam, it is dangerous to praise any human virtue before the
accomplishment of the tasks which it imposes on itself. But in
expressing my part of what I hope is, or will become, the general voice,
in admiration of what you have done, I run no risk at all. With your
Imperial Majesty, declaration and execution, beginning and conclusion,
are, at their different seasons, one and the same thing.

On the faith and declaration of some of the first potentates of Europe,
several thousands of persons, comprehending the best men and the best
gentlemen in France, have given up their country, their houses, their
fortunes, their professional situation, their all, and are now in
foreign lands, struggling under the most grievous distresses. Whatever
appearances may menace, nobody fears that they can be finally abandoned.
Such a dereliction could not be without a strong imputation on the
public and private honor of sovereignty itself, nor without an
irreparable injury to its interests. It would give occasion to represent
monarchs as natural enemies to each other, and that they never support
or countenance any subjects of a brother prince, except when they rebel
against him. We individuals, mere spectators of the scene, but who sock
our liberties under the shade of legal authority, and of course
sympathize with the sufferers in that cause, never can permit ourselves
to believe that such an event can disgrace the history of our time. The
only thing to be feared is delay, in winch are included many mischiefs.
The constancy of the oppressed will be broken; the power of tyrants
will be confirmed. Already the multitude of French officers, drawn from
their several corps by hopes inspired by the freely declared disposition
of sovereigns, have left all the posts in which they might one day have
effectually s