text:  to forward the Imperial conspiracy?--or Marshal Ney who after promising at the court of the Tuileries to bring the ex-emperor back in an iron cage no sooner reached the royal camp at Melun than he issued a proclamation calling on the troops to desert the Bourbons and mount the tricolor cockade? Nay is not Churchill's conduct in a moral point of view worse than that of Ney; for the latter abandoned the trust reposed in him by a new master forced upon an unwilling nation to rejoin his old benefactor and companion in arms; but the former abandoned the trust reposed in him by his old master and benefactor to range himself under the banner of a competitor for the throne to whom he was bound neither by duty nor obligation