I will impose an indemnity of a hundred millions of their pounds.
I will favour the poor at the expense of the rich, and so I shall have a party.

I will detach Scotland and Ireland by giving them constitutions which will put them in a superior condition to England.

Thus I will sow dissensions everywhere.

Then as a price for leaving the island I will claim their fleet and their colonies.

In this way I shall secure the command of the world to France for at least a century to come.' In this short sketch I could perceive the quality which I have since heard remarked in Napoleon, that his mind could both conceive a large scheme, and at the same time evolve those practical details which would seem to bring it within the bounds of possibility.