You English want many lessons.

You are taught by your scribes to despise the dignity which is not supported by a multitude of bayonets, guns, and gold.

I heard of it when I travelled incognito.

You make merry over little potentates.Good.But do not cross their paths.

Their dominion may be circumscribed, but they have it; and where we are now, my power equals that of the Kaiser and the Czar.
You will do me the favour to understand that I am not boasting, not menacing; I attempt, since it is extraordinarily imposed on me, to instruct you.