Let him provide a refuge for them in Russia!" Note what he means by--personal insult[12101], how he intends to avenge himself by reprisals of the worst kind, to what excess he carries his interference, how he enters the cabinets of foreign sovereigns, forcibly entering and breaking, to drive out their councilors and control their meetings: like the Roman senate with an Antiochus or a Prusias, like an English Resident with the King of Oude or of Lahore.

With others as at home, he cannot help but act as a master.

The aspiration for universal dominion is in his very nature; it may be modified, kept in check, but never can it be completely stifled."[12102] It declares itself on the organization of the Consulate.

It explains why the peace of Amiens could not last; apart from the diplomatic discussions and behind his alleged grievances, his character, his exactions, his avowed plans, and the use he intends making of his forces form the real and true causes of the rupture.

In comprehensible sometimes even in explicit terms, he tells the English: Expel the Bourbons from your island and close the mouths of your journalists.