they had declared that they were making war only on Napoleon, but were now proposing to penalise his enemy Louis XVIII, whom they had restored to his throne; they were proposing to make peace with France, with which, according to their own proclamations, they had not been at war; and to add insult to injury, they had forced the King of France to take notorious Jacobins and regicides into his government, after having spent the past quarter of a century waging war on everything they stood for.
