The Secret History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte: Including His Private Life, Character, Domestic Administration, and His Conduct to Foreign Powers; Together with Secret Anecdotes of the Different Courts of Europe, and of the French Revolution. With Two Appendices, Consisting of State Papers, and of Biographical Sketches of the Persons Composing the Court of St. Cloud |
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Page 422 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 356 - Les positions que nous occupons sont formidables , et pendant qu'ils marcheront pour tourner ma droite , ils me présenteront le flanc. « Soldats, je dirigerai moi-même tous vos bataillons; je me tiendrai loin du feu, si avec votre bravoure accoutumée...
Page 541 - Je fus envoyé à Londres, pour la deuxième fois, le 7 septembre 1792, par le conseil exécutif provisoire. J'ai, en original, le passe-port qui me fut délivré par le conseil, et qui est signé des six membres : Lebrun, Danton...
Page i - THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CABINET OF BONAPARTE ; Including his Private Life, Character, Domestic Administration, and his conduct to Foreign Powers ; together with Secret Anecdotes of the different Courts of Europe, and of the French Revolution. With two Appendices, consisting of State Papers, and of Biographical Sketches of the persons composing the Court of St. Cloud. By Lewis Goldsmith, Notary Public, author of " The Crimes of Cabinets," " An exposition of the conduct of France towards America,
Page 615 - Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation.
Page 453 - Powers have an acknowledged right to avail themselves of ail discontents that may exist in countries with which they may be at war. The exercise of that right (even if in any degree doubtful) would be fully sanctioned in the present case, not only by the present state of the French nation, but by the conduct of the government of that country, which, since the commencement of the present war, has constantly kept up communications with the disaffected in the territories of his Majesty, particularly...
Page 475 - The event which has taken place, in the states of his highness the elector of Baden, the conclusion of which has been so melancholy, has occasioned the most poignant grief to the emperor of all the Russias. He cannot but view with the greatest concern, the violation which has been committed on the tranquillity and integrity of the German territories.
Page 119 - Ce serait une prétention chimérique et même criminelle que de vouloir représenter la nation avant l'empereur. > Le corps législatif, improprement appelé de ce nom , devrait être appelé conseil législatif, puisqu'il n'a pas la faculté de faire des lois, n'en ayant pas la proposition.
Page 451 - Government authorizes and tolerates those public and private crimes, in which case it cannot be said that such conduct is consistent with British generosity, civilization, and honour; or it cannot prevent them, in which case it does not deserve the name of a government ; above all, if it does not possess the means of repressing assassination and calumny, and protecting social order.
Page 240 - Thureau, celebrated for his atrocious massacres in La Vendee, arrived early in that month in the Valais ; set aside all the constituted authorities throughout that little state and its dependencies, possessed himself of the public treasury, the archives of the government, and die post office, and publicly announced it as the intention of France to incorporate that republic with her dominions.