Alexander Ithe pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people`s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherlandnow that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoplesat the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained powerAlexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only: