inally,
several special police-bodies to render to him an account of what passed
among savants, tradesmen and soldiers. All this correspondence reached
him at Moscow as at the Tuileries."]

[Footnote 6266: Faber, ibid. (1807), p.35. "Lying, systematically
organized, forming the basis of government and consecrated in public
acts,... the abjuring of all truth, of all personal conviction, is the
characteristic of the administrators as presenting to view the acts,
sentiments and ideas of the government, which makes use of them for
scenic effect in the pieces it gives on the theatre of the world...
. The administrators do not believe a word they say, nor those
administered."]

[Footnote 6267: The following two confidential police reports show,
among many others, the sentiments of the public and the usefulness of
repressive measures. (Archives nationales, F.7, 3016, Report of the
commissioner-general of Marseilles for the second quarter of 1808.)
"Events in Spain have largely fixed, and essentially fixed, attention.
In vain would the attentive observer like to conceal the truth on this
point; the fact is that the Spanish revolution is unfavorably looked
upon. It was at first thought that the legitimate heir would succeed to
Charles IV. The way in which people have been undeceived has given the
public a direction quite opposite to the devoted ideas of His Majesty
the Emperor... No generous soul... rises to the level of the great
continental cause."--Ibid. (Report for the second quarter of 1809.) "I
have posted observers in the public grounds.... As a result of these
measures, of this constant vigilance, of the care I have taken to summon
before me the heads of public establishments when I have ascertained
that the slightest word has been spoken, I attain the end proposed. But
I am assured that if the fear of the upper police did not restrain
the disturbers, the brawlers, they would publicly express an opinion
contrary to the principles of the government.... Public opinion is daily
going down. There is great misery and consternation. Murmurs are not
openly heard, but discontent exists among citizens generally.... The
continental war. the naval warfare, events in Rome, Spain and Germany,
the absolute cessation of trade, the conscription, the droits unis...
are all so many motives of corruption of the public mind. Priests and
devotees, merchants and proprietors, artisans, workmen, the people in
fine, everybody is discontented..