To foment disturbances between England and her colonies appeared to him an efficacious and a natural way of gratifying his feelings.

"There is great difficulty in governing States in the days in which we live," he wrote to M.Durand, at that time French minister in London; "still greater difficulty in governing those of America; and the difficulty approaches impossibility as regards those of Asia.

I am very much astonished that England, which is but a very small spot in Europe, should hold dominion over more than a third of America, and that her dominion should have no other object but that of trade.

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