172 JUSTICE 



troubles, we could but recall the very lenient punishment 

 — if punishment it might be named — with which his 

 oppressor had been visited. 



" Instead of being allowed to retain the symbols of 

 sovereignty," I said to my friend, " I would have served 

 him as Timour did the Saracen — I would have confined 

 him in an iron case, and shown him round the world as a 

 monster." This would not have been in accordance with 

 the spirit that afterwards evoked commiseration for the 

 fallen hero, as he appeared to some morbid imaginations ; 

 but it would have been more strictly consistent with 

 common sense and retributive justice. 



