_Bishop Watson's Map of Europe in 1854._--The following paragraph is an
extract from a letter written by Bishop Watson to Dr. Falconer of Bath, in
the year 1804:
"The death of a single prince in any part of Europe, remarkable either
for wisdom or folly, renders political conjectures of future
contingencies so extremely uncertain, that I seldom indulge myself in
forming them; yet it seems to me probable, that Europe will soon be
divided among three powers, France, Austria, and Russia; and in half a
century between two, France and Russia; and that America will become
the greatest naval power on the globe, and be replenished by migrations
of oppressed and discontented people from every part of Europe."--See
_Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff_, 2 vols.
8vo., London, 1818, vol. ii. p. 196.