e could have
prevented us. Had the moderate party triumphed all would have been well,
not for us only but for France, for Europe and for all the world."]

[Footnote 51112: Carnot, II., 152. "Do you suppose, replied Reubell,
that I want the Cape and Trinquemale restored for Holland? The first
point is to take them, and to do that Holland must furnish the money and
the vessels. After that I will make them see that these colonies belong
to us."]

[Footnote 51113: Lord Malmesbury, "Diary," III., 526. (Letter from
Paris, Fructidor 17, year V.)--ibid., 483. (Conversation of Mr. Ellis
with Mr. Pain.)]

[Footnote 51114: Ibid. III., 519, 544. (The words of Maret and
Colchen.)--" Reubell," says Carnot, "seems to be perfectly convinced
that probity and civism are two absolutely incompatible things."]

[Footnote 51115: Mallet-Dupan, II., 49. Words of Sieyes, March 27, 1797.
Ibid, I., 258, 407; II., 4, 49, 350, 361, 386. This is so true that
this prevision actuates the concessions of the English ambassador. (Lord
Malmesbury, "Diary," III., 519. Letter to Canning. August 29, 1797.)
"I am the more anxious for peace because, in addition to all the
commonplace reasons, I am convinced that peace will paralyze this
country most completely, that all the violent means they have employed
for war will return upon them like an humour driven in and overset
entirely their weak and baseless constitution. This consequence of peace
is so much more to be pressed, as the very best conditions we could
offer in the treaty."]

[Footnote 51116: Mathieu Dumas, III., 256.--Miot de Melito, I., 163,
191. (Conversations with Bonaparte June and September, 1797.)]

[Footnote 51117: Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique," No. for November
10, 1798. How support gigantic and exacting crimes on its own soil? How
can it flatter itself that it will extract from an impoverished people,
without manufactures, trade or credit, nearly a billion of direct and
indirect subsidies? How renew that immense fund of confiscations
on which the French republic has lived for the past eight years? By
conquering every year a new nation and devastating its treasuries, its
character, its monts-de-piete, its owners of property. The Republic, for
ten years past, would have laid down its arms had it been reduced to its
own capital.]

[Footnote 51118: Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique," Nos. for November
25, and December 25, 1798, and passim.]

[Footnote 51119: Ibid., No. for Januar