here recommends, and Buonaparte invariably practises.
Our author next proceeds to enquire, why the kingdom of Darius remained to the successors of Alexander after his death; from which we may derive this lesson, that the throne of France will never return to the line of the Bourbons, which is virtually extinct, and a new order of things has arisen, which, in this respect, makes France resemble Turkey. The race of her kings being extinct, and all her nobility expatriated and destroyed. The causes which led to this total revolution in France have been often discussed, nor are we disposed to question the decision of those. who have considered them. Machiavelli, however, having pointed them out in so forcible a manner, we may be pardoned for resuming the subject.
"A prince with less eminent qualities than his predecessors may enjoy all the fruits of his labours, his institutions, and the energies of his genius; but if his reign
