12mo. iv, [1], 6-40pp. Recent calf-backed marbled boards. Very occasional light spotting.

A rare, provincially printed anonymous essay, arguing that the actions of Napoleon Bonaparte were in fact 'glaring excesses of ambitious madness'. The anonymous author seeks to prove that Napoleon's actions in Europe could not have been the fruits of reason, instead questioning if 'that temper of mind, which excites a man to conquer nation after nation, and to enslave them, be not a madness, sui generis?' The characterisation of the emperor is often maniacal and divorced from emotion, with the author believing that 'ambition is a ten-fold more violent passion than that of love'.

Unrecorded by COPAC; OCLC locates a single copy, at DePaul University.