him? All those who wished for peace: all those who desired
the re-establishment of the church: all those who had the cause of
morality and virtue at heart--all the good,--but, alas! in France, they
were few in number.

I have only enumerated the great and leading parties in the community.
It was my intention to have touched on the sentiments of the different
professions, but I have been already too tedious; I shall here only
enumerate a few of the classes, who, as they are thrown out of bread by
the return of the Bourbons, and the new system of government, will be
ever busily employed in favouring a despotic and military government, a
continuance of war, and of a conscription.

1st, All the prefects, collectors of taxes, and their agents, who were
employed in the countries subjected to Napoleon.

2d, The many officers, and under agents, employed in the conscription,
and in collecting the droits reunis.

3d, The police emissaries of all ranks, forming that enormous mass who
conducted the grand machine of espionage, directed the _public spirit_,
and supplied information to the late Emperor.

4th, All the rich and wealthy army contractors, furnishers, &c. &c.

Having attempted to shew that the situation of the people in France was
highly favourable to the views of the usurper, let me now observe, that
there are other circumstances which greatly aided his cause.

1st, The vanity of the nation was hurt: they had not forgotten their
defeat by the allies, and the proceedings of Congress, in confining
within narrow bounds, that nation, who, but a year ago, gave laws to the
continent, had tended to aggravate their feelings. It is difficult for
any nation to shrink at once into insignificance, from the possession of
unlimited power; it is impossible for France to maintain an inglorious
peace.

2d, The spirit of the nation had become completely military. One year of
peace cannot be supposed to have done away the effects of twelve years
of victory.

3d, The general laxity of morals, and the habits of dissipation and
idleness, which have followed from the revolution, and have been taught
by the military, and especially by the disbanded soldiers, were
favourable to him.

4th, He came at the very time when his prisoners had returned from all
quarters of the globe; he came again to unite them under the _revered
eagle_, emblem of rapine and plunder, which they everywhere looked up
to; in short, if it had been suggested to an