Napoleon I." (Letter of Sept.23, 1809, to M.
de Champagny): "The Emperor Francis insulted me in writing to me that I
cede nothing to him, when, out of consideration for him, I have reduced
my demands nearly one-half." (Instead of 2,750,000 Austrian subjects
he demanded only 1,600,000.)--Roederer, III., 377 (Jan.24, 1801): "The
French people must put up with my defects if they find I am of service
to them; it is my fault that I cannot endure insults."]

[Footnote 12102: M. de Metternich, II., 378. (Letter to the Emperor of
Austria, July 28, 1810.)]

[Footnote 12103: Note presented by the French ambassador, Otto, Aug. 17,
1802.]

[Footnote 12104: Stanislas Girardin, III., 296. (Words of the First
consul, Floreal 24, year XI.): "I had proposed to the British minister,
for several months, to make an arrangement by which a law should be
passed in France and in England prohibiting newspapers and the members
of the government from expressing either good or ill of foreign
governments. He never would consent to it."--St. Girardin: "He could
not."--Bonaparte: "Why?"--St. Girardin: "Because an agreement of that
sort would have been opposed to the fundamental law of the country."
Bonaparte: "I have a poor opinion," etc.]

[Footnote 12105: Hansard, vol. XXXVI., p.1298. (Dispatch of Lord
Whitworth, Feb.21, 1803, conversation with the First consul at the
Tuileries.)--Seeley, 'A Short History of Napoleon the First." "Trifles
is a softened expression, Lord Whitworth adds in a parenthesis which has
never been printed; "the expression he made use of is too insignificant
and too low to have a place in a dispatch or anywhere else, save in the
mouth of a hack-driver."]

[Footnote 12106: Lanfrey, "Histoire de Napoleon," II., 482. (Words
of the First consul to the Swiss delegates, conference of January 29,
1803.)]

[Footnote 12107: Sir Neil Campbell, "Napoleon at Fontainebleau and
Elba," p.201. (The words of Napoleon to Sir Neil Campbell and to the
other commissioners.)--The Memorial de Sainte Helene mentions the
same plan in almost identical terms.--Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de
Napoleon au conseil d'etat," p.238 (session of March 4, 1806): "Within
forty-eight hours after peace with England, I shall interdict foreign
commodities and promulgate a navigation act forbidding any other than
French vessels entering our ports, built of French timber, and with the
crews two-thirds French. Even coal and English 'milords' shall land only
und