[276] Baron d'Odeleben, Relation Circonstanciée, tom. i., p. 198.
[277] To be precise—a shoulder of mutton, stuffed with garlic, was the only dinner which his attendants could procure for him on the 27th. Mahomet, who was a favourite of Napoleon, suffered by indulging in similar viands. But the shoulder of mutton, in the case of the Arabian prophet, had the condescension to give its consumer warning of its deleterious qualities, though not till he had eaten too much for his health.—S.
[278] The Abbé de Pradt represents Vandamme at Warsaw, as beating with his own hand a priest, the secretary of a Polish bishop, for not having furnished him with a supply of Tokay, although the poor man had to plead in excuse that King Jerome had the day before carried off all that was in the cellar. A saying was ascribed to Buonaparte, "that if he had had two Vandammes in his service, he must have made the one hang the other."—S.
[279] Jomini, tom. iv., p. 339; Baron Fain, tom. ii., p. 321.
[280] Baron Fain, tom. ii., p. 328; Jomini, tom. iv., p. 404.
[281] Jomini, tom. iv., p. 409; Baron Fain, tom. ii., p. 334.
[282] Jomini, tom. iv., p. 416; Baron Fain, tom. ii., p. 334.
[283] Jomini, tom. iv., p. 423.
[284] Relation Circonstanciée de la Campagne de 1813 en Saxe, tom. i., p. 234.
[285] Baron Odeleben, in his interesting Circumstantial Notice of the Campaigns in Saxony.—S.