text:  The first result was the return of Pitt to power; the next the total ruin of the French navy at Trafalgar; the next the bloody and ruinous war with Russia expressly for the ruin of England through the ruin of her commerce; and finally the crash of Waterloo which extinguished his diadem and his dominion together--a series of events occurring within little more than ten years of a more stupendous order than had hitherto affected the fate of any individual or influenced the destinies of an European kingdom