Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Vol. 8: With a Concise History of the Events, That Have Occasioned His Unparalleled Elevation, and a Philosophical Review of His Manners and Policy as a Soldier, a Statesman, and a Sovereign
Effects of the Interview at Erfurth. - State of the Public Mind. - Cobbet's Encomiums on the English Minister, and on the happy effects of their Orders in Council. - The Power of public Opinion evinced by Buonaparte's Exertion to secure it. - An official Retrospect.
We have now arrived at a period of our Hero's history, when he seemed to be no longer regarded by mankind, great as we have seen him, as the mere Ruler over the destinies of the most powerful nation of the world; but as having attained a degree of power that elevated him into all but, the Arbiter of the World at large! We have already witnessed the imposing effect of that magnificient impudence, so grand, and so peculiarly his own, which could bring one of the greatest sovereigns of Europe, from the extreme ends of the earth; to perform the part of his humble lackey among the mummeries of Erfurth - to sanction by Ins presence the usurpations and spoliations in Spain and Portugal.
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