Spain will continue for some time the degraded slave of superstition and royalism.

Leopold will continue the tyrant of Germany and Italy, and we shall not speedily behold Catos or Ciceros replace the pope and the cardinals in the conclave.

I declare openly, that war, as I understand the term--war, such as I have proposed, is impracticable.

And if it be the war of the court, of the ministers, of the patricians who affect patriotism, that we must accept--oh, then, far from believing in the freedom of the world, I despair of your liberty.

The wisest course left us is to defend it against the perfidy of those enemies at home who lull you with these heroic illusions.
"I continue calmly and sorrowfully.