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The Sovereigns of Europe An amusing letter
has been published, written by Jefferson to friend
of his, formerly Governor of New Hampshire,
which relates to the European monarchs of his
day and acquaintance, and speaks pretty freely of
them, as the following passage may show:


s'Louis XVI. was fool of my own know
ledge, and in despite of the answers made for him
at his trial. The king of Spain was fool; of
Naples the same. They passed their lives in
hunting, and despatched two couriers week,
one thousand miles, to let each other know what
game they had killed the preceding days. The
king of Sardinia was fool. All those were
Bourbons. The Queen of Portugal, Braganza,
was idiot by nature and so the king of
Denmark. Their sons, as regents, exercised the
power of the government. The king of Prussia
successor to the Great Frederick, was a mere
hog in body well as mind. Gustavus of Swe-
den, and Joseph of Austria, were really crazy,
and George of England, you know was in a
straight waistcoat = There remained, then, none
but old Calharine, who had been too lately picked
up to have lost her common sense In this state Bo
naparte found Europe and it was this state of its
rulers which lost it with scarce a struggle
These animals had become, without mind and
powerless; and so will every hereditary monarch
be after a few generations Alexander, the
grandson of Catharine, is yet IN exception He is
able to hold his own. But he is only of the third
generation. His race is not yet worn out
And so endeth the Book of Kings; from all Of
which the Lord deliver U.S." ''


