[38] In 1797 created Baron Keith. He died in 1823.
[39] See ante, vol. i., p. [300].
[40] This letter appeared in the Moniteur, 10th December, 1793. But as the town of Toulon was taken a few days afterwards, the Convention voted the letter a fabrication.—S.—"This was unfair; for it was genuine, and gave a just idea of the opinion that prevailed when it was written, respecting the issue of the siege, and of the difficulties that prevailed in Provence."—Napoleon, Memoirs, vol. i., p. 22.
[41] Las Cases, vol. i., p. 140.
[42] It was to Gasparin that Napoleon was indebted for the triumph of his plan over the objections of the committees of the Convention. He preserved a grateful recollection of this circumstance, as appears by his will. It was Gasparin, he used to say, who had first opened his career.—Las Cases, vol. i., p. 144.
[43] Las Cases, vol. i., p. 147.
[44] Las Cases, vol. i., p. 154.
[45] Napoleon says six thousand.—Gourgaud, tom. i., p. 17.
[46] Gourgaud, tom. i., p. 24.
[47] Jomini, tom. iv., p. 223; Toulongeon, tom. iv., p. 88; Napoleon's Memoirs, vol. i., p. 25; Rivington's Annual Register, 1793, p. 415.