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That a great General like Bonaparte should be inclined to military means of effecting a military Government is less to be wondered at than lamented... by taking the common & beaten path of Ambition he has... done much against the liberty of mankind in every part of the world... The only good that could come from this Event, so pernicious to the cause of general Liberty, was Peace, and that you see our Ministers are determined to refuse.
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As to Bonaparte, you know what my apprehensions always were, and I can not help thinking they are in a great degree verified. For though he may, and I hope he will, trounce the Austrians... yet it is impossible to deny that he has lost, or at least risqued the losing of an opportunity. Every man has his weak side, and I have always thought Bonaparte's was the thinking Austria more inclined to peace and more to be depended upon than She is. I hope to God he will not suffer from his errour.
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Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.
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Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
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Born:
January 24, 1749
Died:
September 13, 1806
(aged 57)
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