[86] Merchant of Venice, act iv., scene i.
[87] The following letter appeared in the Journal des Débats of the 7th October:—"Sir, I have been for more than a month in the country, eleven leagues from Paris. On my return to the capital, I learn that there has been circulated, in my name, a pamphlet, entitled, 'Memorial addressed to the King,' &c. I declare, that the Memorial has become printed without my consent, and contrary to my intention.—Carnot." This statement is gravely repeated in the Edinburgh Review, vol. xxiv., p. 187.
[88] Journal des Débats, Oct. 11.
[89] Fouché, tom. ii., p. 232.
[90] Fouché, tom. ii., p. 235.
[91] "Nous le ferons sans vous; nous le ferons malgré vous; nous le ferons pour vous."—S.
[92] "A military party made me a proposal of offering the dictatorship to Eugene Beauharnois. I wrote to him, under the impression that the matter had already assumed a substantial form; but I only received a vague answer. In the interim, all the interests of the Revolution congregated round myself and Carnot, whose memorial to the King had produced a general sensation."—Fouché, tom. i., p. 244.
[93] See Parliamentary Debates, vol. xxxi., 1815.
[94] "At this time there was a very pretty cunning little French actress at Elba. Napoleon pretended to be very angry with her, saying she was a spy of the Bourbons, and ordered her out of the island in twenty-four hours. Captain Adye took her in his vessel to Leghorn: Sir Niel Campbell went at the same time; and during this absence, on Sunday the 26th February, a signal gun was fired at four in the afternoon, the drums beat to arms, the officers tumbled what they could of their effects into flour sacks, the men arranged their knapsacks, the embarkation began, and at eight in the evening they were under weigh."—Memorable Events, p. 271.
[95] The Zephyr, Captain Andrieu.