(Dec.

1811), (On the populations annexed or conquered): "There is no hesitation in depriving them of their patrimony, their language, their legislatures, in disturbing all their habits, and that without any warrant but throwing a bulletin des lois at their heads (inapplicable)....

How could they be expected to recognize this, or even become resigned to it ?...

Is it possible not to feel that one no longer has a country, that one is under constraint, wounded in feeling and humiliated ?...

Prussia, and a large part of Germany, has been so impoverished that there is more to gain by taking a pitchfork to kill a man than to stir up a pile of manure."] [Footnote 12123: "Correspondance," letter to King Joseph, Feb.