text:  Accustomed as we are to regard the Bourbons as a fallen and unfortunate race the objects rather of commiseration than apprehension and Napoleon as the only sovereign who has really threatened our independence and all but effected the subjugation of the Continent we can scarcely conceive the terror with which a century and a half ago they with reason inspired all Europe or the narrow escape which the continental states at least then made from being all reduced to the condition of provinces of France