[31] Crabbe.
[32] The morning after the constitution was announced, the streets of Paris were placarded with the following pasquil:—
| POLITICAL SUBTRACTION. |
| From 5 Directors |
| Take 2 |
| —— |
| There remain 3 Consuls |
| From them take 2 |
| —— |
| And there remains 1 Buonaparte. |
This sufficiently expresses what was considered to be the essence of the new constitution.
[33] When he wrote from Clagenfurt to the Archduke Charles.
[34] Byron's "Manfred."
[35] The worthy Hospitallers of St. Bernard have stationed themselves on that wild eminence, for the purpose of alleviating the misery of travellers lost or bewildered amidst the neighbouring defiles. They entertain a pack of dogs, of extraordinary sagacity, who roam over the hills night and day, and frequently drag to light and safety pilgrims who have been buried in the snow.
[36] The following anecdote is given by Dumas:—"On one of these occasions, when a desperate attack was led on by Soult, there occurred a circumstance as honourable as it was characteristic of the spirit which animated the French. The soldiers of two regiments or demi-brigades, of the army of Italy, namely, the 25th Light, and the 24th of the Line, had sworn eternal enmity against one another, because that, previous to the opening of the campaign, when desertion and all the evils of insubordination prevailed in that army, disorganised by suffering, the former, in which discipline had been maintained, was employed to disarm the latter. The utmost care had been taken to keep them separate; but it so happened that these two corps found themselves one day made rivals as it were in valour, the one before the eyes of the other. The same dangers, the same thirst of glory, the same eagerness to maintain themselves, at once renewed in all hearts generous sentiments; the soldiers became instantly intermingled; they embraced in the midst of the fire, and one half of the one corps passing into the ranks of the other, they renewed the combat, after the exchange, with double ardour."
[37] Sept. 5, 1800.
[38] The man took the noise for that of a salute.