Note 88 — (Second Pilgrimage.) (continued 4)

His own words, as reported by Las Casas, were—“I was a Mahomedan in Egypt—a Catholic in France. I do not believe in forms of religion; but in the existence of a Deity.” There is not an infidel or sceptic from the North to the South Pole, who doubts the existence of a God—provided he has sense or reason enough to be able to distinguish his right hand from his left. It was fortunate, perhaps, for Napoleon’s mental sufferings that he believed not in a future state of existence, otherwise the ghost of D’Enghien would have stood by his death-bed, and rendered his last moments most horrible! I need not allude to his divorce of Josephine, for his character in matrimony!