Page:The invasion of the Crimea vol. 1.djvu/410

368 ORIGIN OF THE WAR OF 1853 CHAP, nations, that Frenchmen might be brought to look XVI • • '__ at what he was doing to others instead of what he had clone to them ; and if he could have reached to this by seeming to take a great ascendant in the diplomacy of Europe, it is possible that, for a while at least, he might have been content Means well to spare the world from graver troubles ; but enforcing a whether he acted from design or under the were so used impulse of varying and conflicting wishes, it is voke war. certain that that command of naval power, which was an engine of excellent strength for enforcing the restoration of tranquillity, was so used by his orders and under his persuasion, as to become the means of provoking a war.