[433] Bourrienne, tom. iii., p. 4; Miot, p. 269.
[434] Lacretelle, tom. xiv., p. 230; Madame de Staël, tom. ii., p. 211.
[435] Lacretelle, tom. xiv., p. 176; Montgaillard, tom. v., p. 126; Jomini, tom. xi., p. 380.
[436] Botta, tom. ii., p. 571; Lacretelle, tom. xiv., p. 145; Thiers, tom. x., p. 26; Annual Register, vol. xl., p. 38.
[437] See Southey's Life of Nelson.
[438] Jomini, tom. xiv., p. 316; Lacretelle, tom. xiv., p. 241.
[439] Annual Register, vol. xl., p. 244.
[440] "Suwarrow is a most extraordinary man. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked: he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer is at ten degrees below freezing. A great deal of his whimsical manner is affected: He finds that it suits his troops, and the people he has to deal with. I dined with him this morning. He cried to me across the table, 'Tweddell, the French have taken Portsmouth. I have just received a courier from England. The king is in the tower, and Sheridan protector!'"—Tweddell's Remains, p. 135.
[441] Jomini, tom. xi., p. 275; Thiers, tom. x., p. 279.
[442] The term, it is scarcely necessary to say, is derived from the childish amusement, where two boys swing at the opposite ends of a plank, moving up and down, in what Dr. Johnson calls "a reciprocating motion," while a third urchin, placed in the centre of motion, regulates their movements.—S.