[231] Napoleon to Talleyrand, Dec. 18, 1799. "Frame your reply to Genoa in such terms as to leave us free to incorporate the Ligurian Republic with France, within a few months."
[232] Stanhope's Pitt, vol. iv. p. 318.
[233] Napoleon to Talleyrand, July 31, 1805.
[234] Ibid., August 13.
[235] Napoleon to Villeneuve, August 13.
[236] Napoleon to Decrès, August 14.
[237] Twenty-nine only of the line.
[238] Chevalier, Marine Française sous l'Empire, p. 180.
[239] Collingwood's Correspondence, August 21, 1805.
[240] Thiers, Cons. et Emp., livre xxii. pp. 125, 128.