For the rest, it remains to be _proved_, I think, whether he is a mere ambitious man, or better--whether his personality or his country stands highest with him as an object.

I thought and still think that a Washington might have dissolved the Assembly as he did, and appealed to the people.

Which is not saying, however, that he is a Washington.

We must wait, I think, to judge the man.

Only it is right to bear in mind one fact, that, admitting the lawfulness of the _coup d'etat_, you must not object to the dictatorship.