[442] Mémoires de Bourrienne, vol. ix. p. 60.
[443] Porter's Progress of the Nation, sect. iii. p. 205. In 1815, after Napoleon's overthrow, the price fell to £34.
[444] Tooke's Hist. of Prices, vol. i. p. 354.
[445] Souvenirs du duc de Vicence, vol. i. p. 88.
[446] Both Monroe and Pinkney, while ministers in London, informed the United States government that the extreme measures taken were popular. (Am. State Papers, vol. iii. pp. 188, 206.)
[447] Letter on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government; by an American lately returned from Europe, pp. 189-192. Baltimore, 1810. See also Metternich's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 476, for the unhappiness of France.
[448] Mémoires du due de Raguse, vol. iii. p. 423. Marmont adds: "This was a powerful help to French industry during that time of suffering and misery."
[449] Tooke's History of Prices, vol. i. p. 311.
[450] In like manner, vessels with British licenses frequently slipped into French ports, especially with naval stores from the Baltic.
[451] "There was not a Dutchman," says M. Thiers, "who had not lost fifty per cent by foreign loans." (Cons. et Empire (Forbes's trans.), xii. 47.)