I did not notice a single sentiment or opinion that I could have wished away but one--where you support the notion that, if the Duke of Wellington had not lived and commanded, Buonaparte must have continued the master of Europe.

I do not object to this from any dislike I have to the Duke, but from a conviction--I trust, a philosophic one--that Providence would not allow the upsetting of so diabolical a system as Buonaparte's to depend upon the existence of any individual.

Justly was it observed by Lord Wellesley, that Buonaparte was of an order of minds that created for themselves great reverses.

He might have gone further, and said that it is of the nature of tyranny to work to its own destruction.[71] [69] 'The Excursion,' published 1814.
[70] _Memoirs_, ii 10-11.
[71] As has been said by Demosthenes.
The sentence of yours which occasioned these loose remarks is, as I said, the only one I objected to, while I met with a thousand things to admire.

Your sympathy with the great cause is every where energetically and feelingly expressed.