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been repeatedly promised, were permitted to remain in England, handsomely pensioned, and constantly committing ail sorts of crimes on the coasts of France as well as in the interior. In confirmation of this, he told me that two men had, within thèse few days, been apprehended in Normandy, and were now on their way to Paris, who were hired assassins and employed by the bishop of Arras, by the baron de Roll, by Georges, and by Dutheil, as would be fully proved in a court of justice, and made known to the world.

He acknowledged that the irritation he felt against England increased daily, because every wind (I makeuse as much as I can of his own ideas and expressions) which blew from England, brought nothing but enmity and hatred against him.... Nothing had been able to conquer the hatred of the British government, and therefore it was now come to the point whether we should have peace or war. To préserve peace, the treaty of Amiens must be fulfilled, the abuse in the public prints, if not totally suppressed, at least kept within bounds and confined to the English papers, and the protection so openly given to his bitterest ennemies (alluding to Georges and suchlike) must be withdrawn....

(Browning, England and Nap. in i8o3, p. j8.)