u, "Memoires
sur le Consulat," p. 18: "He sometimes pays them left-handed compliments
on their toilet or adventures, which was his way of censuring
morals."--"Mes souvenirs sur Napoleon," 322 by le Comte Chaptal: "At a
fete, in the Hotel de Ville, he exclaimed to Madame----, who had just
given her name to him: 'Good God, they told me you were pretty!' To some
old persons: 'You haven't long to live! To another lady: 'It is a fine
time for you, now your husband is on his campaigns!' In general, the
tone of Bonaparte was that of an ill-bred lieutenant. He often invited
a dozen or fifteen persons to dinner and rose from the table before the
soup was finished... The court was a regular galley where each rowed
according to command."]

[Footnote 1293: Madame de Remusat, I., 114, 122, 206; II., 110, 112.]

[Footnote 1294: Ibid., I., 277.]

[Footnote 1295: "Hansard's Parliamentary History," vol. XXXVI.,.310.
Lord Whitworth's dispatch to Lord Hawkesbury, March 14, 1803, and
account of the scene with Napoleon. "All this took place loud enough for
the two hundred persons present to hear it."--Lord Whitworth (dispatch
of March 17) complains of this to Talleyrand and informs him that he
shall discontinue his visits to the Tuileries unless he is assured that
similar scenes shall not occur again.--Lord Hawkesbury approves of this
(dispatch of March 27), and declares that the proceeding is improper and
offensive to the King of England.--Similar scenes, the same conceit and
intemperate language, with M. de Metternich, at Paris, in 1809, also at
Dresden, in 1813: again with Prince Korsakof, at Paris, in 1812; with
M. de Balachof, at Wilna, in 1812, and with Prince Cardito, at Milan, in
1805.]

[Footnote 1296: Before the rupture of the peace of Amiens ("Moniteur,"
Aug. 8, 1802): The French government is now more firmly established than
the English government."--("Moniteur" Sept.10, 1802): "What a difference
between a people which conquers for love of glory and a people of
traders who happen to become conquerors!"--("Moniteur," Feb. 20, 1803):
"The government declares with a just pride that England cannot now
contend against France."--Campaign of 1805, 9th bulletin, words of
Napoleon in the presence of Mack's staff: "I recommend my brother the
Emperor of Germany to make peace as quick as he can! Now is the time
to remember that all empires come to an end; the idea that an end might
come to the house of Lorraine ought to alarm him."--Let