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to discuss the general course of affairs, he respectfully sug-
gestedon the plea that it was necessary for the sovereign to
arouse a warlike spirit in the people of the capitalthat the
Emperor should leave the army.
That arousing of the people by their sovereign and his
call to them to defend their countrythe very incitement
which was the chief cause of Russia’s triumph in so far as it
was produced by the Tsar’s personal presence in Moscow-
was suggested to the Emperor, and accepted by him, as a
pretext for quitting the army.

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