très-désavantageuses : see above, p. 87, 1. 21, note

1. 9. dont elle, etc., of which she (i.e. England) is the beacon-fire.

1. 10. M. Fox (Charles James, 1748 — 1806). See on this subject M. Thiers' Histoire du consulat et de Vetnpire, book XVI.

fit entièrement Jausse route, went conipletely wrong by supporting Napoléon, under the delusion that he represented the best principles of the Révolution. It niust be allowed hovvever that Pitt himself was favourable to peace, but on other grounds, viz. that Napoléon had put down Jacobinism.

1. 15. quelle faute, s'il se peut (i.e. si cela [L. id'\ est possible), plus dangereuse encore, what a fault, more dangerous still, if possible, it was to consider Bonaparte, etc.