Joseph BONAPARTE. L.S. "Joseph Cte de Survilliers" (minute), Point Breeze 3 October 1826, to General Pelet 3 pages in-4. After reading the 3rd volume of Mémoires sur la guerre de 1809..., which reconciled him with men; criticism of the "young Ségur" flattered by "the dominant party"; praise for the "free country" in which he lives, its "republican virtue" and "equal rights". He forgot nothing of his conversations with the Emperor "on important questions of legislation and politics, if he had lived, at this time France would be free and happy; it needed education, the factions of foreigners, priests and eternal revolutionaries had to be silenced so that the voice of reason could be heard [...A dictatorship was necessary [...] never was it passionate and tiranic, never, however, was the government less military than under the Emperor, never was a soldier more a citizen, than when the rage of our enemies forces all citizens to be soldiers"... Etc.