"I believe that Nicholas, tyrannical and absolute as he is, yet wishes to be just, and that were such a document placed in his hands, it would open his eyes to the truth.

But my enemies would take care that it never reached him.

They are so powerful that few would dare to brave their hostility by presenting it.

Nor, indeed, surrounded as Nicholas is by creatures whose great object is to prevent him from learning the true wishes of his people, would it be easy to obtain an opportunity for laying such a document before him.

Even were the attempt made, and that successfully, such doubts would be thrown upon it, that he might well be deceived.