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[ Ibid. III., 519, 544. (The words of Maret and Colchen.)—" Reubell," says Carnot, "seems to be perfectly convinced that probity and civism are two absolutely incompatible things.">[
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[ Mallet-Dupan, II., 49. Words of Siéyès, March 27, 1797. Ibid, I., 258, 407; II., 4, 49, 350, 361, 386. This is so true that this prevision actuates the concessions of the English ambassador. (Lord Malmesbury, "Diary," III., 519. Letter to Canning. August 29, 1797.) "I am the more anxious for peace because, in addition to all the commonplace reasons, I am convinced that peace will paralyze this country most completely, that all the violent means they have employed for war will return upon them like an humour driven in and overset entirely their weak and baseless constitution. This consequence of peace is so much more to be pressed, as the very best conditions we could offer in the treaty.">[
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[ Mathieu Dumas, III., 256.—Miot de Melito, I., 163, 191. (Conversations with Bonaparte June and September, 1797.)]
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[ Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique," No. for November 10, 1798. How support gigantic and exacting crimes on its own soil? How can it flatter itself that it will extract from an impoverished people, without manufactures, trade or credit, nearly a billion of direct and indirect subsidies? How renew that immense fund of confiscations on which the French republic has lived for the past eight years? By conquering every year a new nation and devastating its treasuries, its character, its monts-de-piété, its owners of property. The Republic, for ten years past, would have laid down its arms had it been reduced to its own capital.]
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[ Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique," Nos. for November 25, and December 25, 1798, and passim.]