y 25, 1799. "The French Republic
is eating Europe leaf by leaf like the head of an artichoke. It
revolutionizes nations that it may despoil them, and it despoils them
that it may subsist."]

[Footnote 51120: Letter of Mallet-Dupan to a deputy on a declaration
of war against Venice and on the Revolution effected at Genoa. (The
"Quotidienne," Nos. 410, 413, 414, 421.)--Ibid., "Essai Historique sur
la destruction de le Signe et de le Liberte Historique." (Nos. I, 2, and
3 of the "Mercure Britannique.")--Carnot, II., 153. (Words of Carnot in
relation to the Swiss proceedings of the Directory.) "It is the fable of
the Wolf and the Lamb."]

[Footnote 51121: Overhauling of the Constitution or the purging of the
authorities in Holland by Delacroix, January 22, 1798, in Cisalpine by
Berthier, February, 1798, by Trouve, August, 1798, by Brune, September,
1798, in Switzerland by Rapinat, June, 1798, etc.]

[Footnote 51122: Mallet-Dupan, ("Mercure Britannique." numbers for
November 26. December 25, 1798, March 10 and July 10, 1799). Details
and documents relating to popular insurrections in Belgium, Switzerland,
Suabia, Modena, the Roman States. Piedmont and Upper Italy.--Letter
of an officer in the French army dated at Turin and printed at Paris.
"Wherever the civil commissioners pass the people rise in insurrection,
and, although I have come near being a victim of these insurrections
four times, I cannot blame the poor creatures; even the straw of their
beds is taken. Most of Piedmont, as I wrote, has risen against the
French robbers, as they call us. Will you be surprised when I tell you
that, since the pretended revolution of this country, three or four
months ago, we have devoured ten millions of coin, fifteen millions
of paper money, with the diamonds, furniture, etc., of the Crown? The
people judge us according to our actions and regard us with horror and
execrations."]

[Footnote 51123: Mallet-Dupan, Ibid., number for January, 1799. (List
according to articles, with details, figures and dates.)--Ibid., No. for
May 25, 1799: details of the sack of Rome according to the "Journal"
of M. Duppa, an eye witness.--Ibid., Nos. for February 10 and 25, 1799:
details of spoliation in Switzerland, Lombardy, Lucca and Piedmont.--The
following figures show the robberies committed by individuals: In
Switzerland, "the Directorial commissary, Rapinat, the major-general,
Schawembourg and the ordinance commissary, Rouhiere, each carried a