way a
million tournois." "Rouhiere, besides this, levied 20 per cent. on each
contract he issued, which was worth to him 350,000 livres. His first
secretary Toussaint, stole in Berne alone, 150,000 livres. The secretary
of Rapinat, Amberg, retired with 300,000 livres." General Lorge carried
off 150,000 livres in specie, besides a lot of gold medals taken from
the Hotel-de-Ville at Berne; his two brigadier-generals, Rampon and
Pijon, each appropriated 216,000 livres. "Gen. Duheur, encamped in
Brisgav, sent daily to the three villages at once the bills of fare
for his meals and ordered requisitions for them; he demanded of one,
articles in kind and, simultaneously, specie of another. He was
content with 100 florins a day, which he took in provisions and then in
money."--"Massena, on entering Milan at eleven o'clock in the evening,
had carried off in four hours, without giving any inventory or receipt,
all the cash-boxes of the convents, hospitals and monts-de-piete, which
were enormously rich, taking also, among others, the casket of diamonds
belonging to Prince Belgiojoso. That night was worth to Massena
1,200,000 livres." (Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique," February
10, 1799, and "Journal," MS., March, 1797.) On the sentiments of the
Italians, cf. the letter of Lieutenant Dupin, Prairial 27, year VIII.;
(G. Sand, "Histoire de ma vie," II. 251) one account of the battle of
Marengo, lost up to two o'clock in the afternoon; "I already saw that
the Po, and the Tessin were to be crossed, a country to traverse of
which every inhabitant is our enemy."]

[Footnote 51124: Mallet-Dupan, ibid., number for January 10 1791.
"December 31, 1796. Marquis Litta had already paid assessments amounting
to 500,000 livres milanais, Marquis T., 420,000, Count Grepi 900,000,
and other proprietors in proportion." Ransom of the "Decurioni of Milan,
and other hostages sent into France, 1,500,000 livres."--This is in
conformity with the Jacobin theory. In the old instructions of Carnot,
we read the following sentence: "Assessments must be laid exclusively on
the rich; the people must see that we are only liberators.... Enter as
benefactors of the people, and at the same time as the scourge of the
great, the rich and enemies of the French name." (Carnot, I., 433.)]

[Footnote 51125: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 776. (Reports of the year VII.,
Archives Nationales, F.7, 7701 and 7718.) "Out of 1,400 men composing
the first auxiliary battalion of conscript