My affairs here go excellently.—Yours ever,
Napoleon.
Kind regards to Hortense and the Duke de Berg.[32]
May 8th.—Eugène crosses the Piave, and defeats Archduke John.
No. 3.
To the Empress, at Strasburg.
Saint-Polten, May 9, 1809.
My Dear,—I write you from Saint-Polten. To-morrow I shall be before Vienna; it will be exactly a month to the day after the Austrians crossed the Inn, and violated peace.