We are standing, as it were, on a volcano.

The army is in no sense loyal to the King.

I advised that it be disbanded absolutely, but I was overruled.

It is seething with sedition.

The envoys of the powers at Vienna are playing, idling, debating endlessly, and while they play and idle and talk in their fools' paradise, the Emperor, he who is so called by misguided France, will return.