ter to the Queen
of Naples, January 2, 1805: "Let your Majesty listen to what I predict.
On the first war breaking out, of which she might be the cause, she and
her children will have ceased to reign; her children would go wandering
about among the different countries of Europe begging help from their
relations."]

[Footnote 1297: 37th bulletin, announcing the march of an army on Naples
"to punish the Queen's treachery and cast from the throne that criminal
woman, who, with such shamelessness, has violated all that men hold
sacred."--Proclamation of May 13, 1809: "Vienna, which the princes of
the house of Lorraine have abandoned, not as honorable soldiers yielding
to circumstances and the chances of war, but as perjurers pursued
by remorse.... In flying from Vienna their adieus to its inhabitants
consisted of murder and fire. Like Medea, they have sacrificed their
children with their own hands."--13th bulletin: "The rage of the house
of Lorraine against the city of Vienna,"]

[Footnote 1298: Letter to the King of Spain, Sept. 18, 1803, and a note
to the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, on the Prince de la Paix:
"This favorite, who has succeeded by the most criminal ways to a degree
unheard of in the annals of history.... Let Your Majesty put away a
man who, maintaining in his rank the low passions of his character, has
lived wholly on his vices."--After the battle of Jena, 9th, 17th,
18th, and 19th bulletins, comparison of the Queen of Prussia with Lady
Hamilton, open and repeated insinuations, imputing to her an intrigue
with the Emperor Alexander. "Everybody admits that the Queen of Prussia
is the author of the evils the Prussian nation suffers. This is heard
everywhere. How changed she is since that fatal interview with the
Emperor Alexander!... The portrait of the Emperor Alexander, presented
to her by the Prince, was found in the apartment of the Queen at
Potsdam."]

[Footnote 1299: "La Guerre patriotique" (1812-1815), according to the
letters of contemporaries, by Doubravine (in Russian). The Report of the
Russian envoy, M. de Balachof, is in French,]

[Footnote 12100: An allusion to the murder of Paul I.]

[Footnote 12101: Stanislas de Girardin, "Memoires," III., 249.
(Reception of Nivose 12, year X.) The First consul addresses the Senate:
"Citizens, I warn you that I regard the nomination of Daunou to the
senate as a personal insult, and you know that I have never put up with
one."--"Correspondance de