destroying of that life. Another friend of yours, who conducts the Paris Argus, has also accused me of instigating the assassination of Buonaparte, a charge which is absolutely false. Whenever I have spoken on the subject (as I recollect I did at the time of the “ infernal machine”) I have unequivocally declared, that, whether in time of peace or war, such a deed, on the part of an Englishman, whether by his own hand or the hand of another, would be infamous. Wiui respect to the same deed, on the part of a French Royalist, who had never owned alle*