Note 34 — CRIMES OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA AGAINST MANKIND. (continued 6)

The young prince confesses to some scruples with regard to the first project. He suggests, that it might “perhaps” not be thought “suitable” for a government to abandon its subjects, “a portion of whom, at least, are well disposed, to all the horrors of an insurrection.” It is probable that these plans did not originate with the Palatine, but were dictated to him at Vienna.