[158] Hobhouse's Letters from Paris, written during the Last Reign of Napoleon.—S.
[159] Moniteur, June 22; Montgaillard, tom. viii., p. 220.
[160] Montgaillard, tom. viii., p. 222.
[161] Fleury de Chamboullon, tom. ii., p. 296; Miss Williams' Narrative.
[162] Montgaillard, tom. viii., p. 223; Fouché, tom. ii., p. 282; Las Cases, tom. i., p. 10; Savary, tom. iv., p. 98.
[163] "We all manœuvred to extort his abdication. There was a multitude of messages backwards and forwards, parleys, objections, replies—in a word, evolutions of every description: ground was taken, abandoned, and again retaken. At length, after a warm battle, Napoleon surrendered, in full council, under the conviction that longer resistance was useless; then turning to me, he said, with a sardonic smile, 'Write to those gentlemen to make themselves easy; they shall be satisfied.' Lucien took up the pen, and drew, under Napoleon's dictation, the act of abdication."—Fouché, tom. ii., p. 283.
[164] Moniteur, June 23.
[165] Moniteur, June 23.
[166] Carnot, Fouché, Grenier, and Quinette, had all voted for the death of Louis XVI.
[167] "I was present at the moment of abdication; and, when the question of Napoleon's removal was agitated, I requested permission to participate in his fate. Such had been till then the disinterestedness and simplicity, some will say folly, of my conduct, that, notwithstanding my daily intercourse as an officer of the household, and member of his council, the Emperor scarcely knew me. 'Do you know whither your offer may lead you?' said he, in his astonishment. 'I have made no calculation about it,' I replied. He accepted me, and here I am at St. Helena."—Las Cases, tom. i., part i., p. 9.