267, 269. (Arrest of M. de la Jaille and other officers; plan for taking
the citadel of Ajaccio.)--II., 115. (letter to Paoli, February 17,
1792.) "Laws are like the statues of certain divinities--veiled
on certain occasions."--II., 125. (Election of Bonaparte as
lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of volunteers, April 1, 1792.)
The evening before he had Murati, one of the three departmental
commissioners, carried off by an armed band from the house of the
Peraldi, his adversaries, where he lodged. Murati, seized unawares, is
brought back by force and locked up in Bonaparte's house, who gravely
says to him "I wanted you to be free, entirely at liberty; you were not
so with the Peraldi."--His Corsican biographer (Nasica, "Memoires sur la
jeunesse et l'enfance de Napoleon,") considers this a very praiseworthy
action]

[Footnote 1232: Cf. on this point, the Memoirs of Marshal Marmont,
I., 180, 196; the Memoirs of Stendhal, on Napoleon; the Report of
d'Antraigues (Yung, III., 170, 171); the "Mercure Britannique" of
Mallet-Dupan, and the first chapter of "La Chartreuse de Parme," by
Stendhal.]

[Footnote 1233: "Correspondance de Napoleon," I. (Letter of Napoleon
to the Directory, April 26, 1796.)--Proclamation of the same date: "You
have made forced marches barefoot, bivouacked without brandy, and often
without bread."]

[Footnote 1234: Stendhal, "Vie de Napoleon," p. 151. "The commonest
officers were crazy with delight at having white linen and fine new
boots. All were fond of music; many walked a league in the rain to
secure a seat in the La Scala Theatre.... In the sad plight in which the
army found itself before Castiglione and Arcole, everybody, except the
knowing officers, was disposed to attempt the impossible so as not to
quit Italy."--"Marmont," I., 296: "We were all of us very young,...
all aglow with strength and health, and enthusiastic for glory.... This
variety of our occupations and pleasures, this excessive employment
of body and mind gave value to existence, and made time pass with
extraordinary rapidity."]

[Footnote 1235: "Correspondance de Napoleon," I. Proclamation of March
27, 1796: "Soldiers, you are naked and poorly fed. The government is
vastly indebted to you; it has nothing to give you.... I am going to
lead you to the most fertile plains in the world; rich provinces, large
cities will be in your power; you will then obtain honor, glory, and
wealth."--Proclamation of April 26, 1796:--"Friends, I