[91] Am. State Papers, vol. ii. p. 553.
[92] Ibid.
[93] In case of war, it was the purpose of the British government to send an expedition to occupy New Orleans, as it did afterwards in 1814. (Am. State papers, vol. ii. pp. 551, 557.)
[94] Napoleon to Talleyrand; Corr. de Nap., May 13, 1803.
[95] Thiers, Consulat et Empire, livre xx. p. 182.
[96] The French republic had devoured under the form of assignats an immense amount of national property.—Thiers: Cons. et Emp., livre xvii. p. 377.
[97] "Holland," says Thiers, "would have wished to remain neutral; but the first consul had taken a resolution, whose justice cannot be denied, to make every maritime nation aid in our strife against Great Britain." (Cons. et Emp., livre xvii. p. 383.)
[98] Metternich's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 48, note.
[99] Chénier's Vie du Maréchal Davout, Paris, 1866.
[100] See Naval Chronicle, vol. x. pp. 508, 510; vol. xi. p. 81. Nelson's Dispatches, vol. v. p. 438.