[43]. Napoleon, at St. Helena, prophesied that before a century was over Europe would be Cossack or Republican.
[44]. “The English victory at La Hogue, and the revival of the trade with Holland, had much to do with Peter’s visit to Archangel” (E. Schuyler’s “Peter the Great,” vol. i. p. 276).
[45]. E. Schuyler’s “Peter the Great,” vol. i. p. 323.
[46]. E. Schuyler’s “Peter the Great,” vol. i. p. 368.
[47]. “Upon the Continental System he (Napoleon) had staked everything. He had united all Europe in the crusade against England; no state, least of all such a state as Russia, could withdraw from the system without practically joining England. Nevertheless, we may wonder that, if he felt obliged to make war upon Russia, he should have chosen to wage it in the manner he did, by an overwhelming invasion” (Seeley’s “A Short History of Napoleon the Great,” p. 169). Prof. Seeley also told the author that “if the Continental System had existed a little longer England would have been ruined, because it seems to me that a revolution would have taken place in England.”
[48]. “Napoleon’s great mistake was that he had laid his plan for an invasion of England and a war in Europe at the same time” (Seeley’s “A Short History of Napoleon the Great,” p. 115).
[49]. The Prince Regent declared his personal adherence to its principles.
[50]. Lord Castlereagh’s Speech, 1812.
[51]. He was “engaged in the glorious attempt to restore that country to her ancient freedom and renown” (The Epitaph in the Church near Newstead).
[52]. “In the present state of European politics there seems to be in the East a sort of vacuum, which it is advisable to supply, in order to counterbalance the preponderance of the North.... If anything like an equilibrium is to be upheld, Greece must be supported. Mr. Canning, I think, understands this, and intends to behave towards Greece” (R. C. Jebb’s “Modern Greece,” pp. 178–179).