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12 July 1803
Picture of the Treasury
Peltiers Trial p. xxi Edit. 1803
Character of Buonaparte. Extracted from Mr Pitts speech, delivered in the
House of Commons, Febry 3d 1801 1800, on the proposals of Buonaparte for entering
into a Negotiation with England.
. . . Let us determine what reliance we can place on his engagements
with other countries, when we see how he has observed his engagements
to his own
H<head>heading xxxviii</head>
Character of Buonaparte. Extracted from the appendix to Mr Windham's
speech, delivered in the House of Commons, on the 4th of Novr 1801, on the
Report of an address to the Throne, apprising of the Preliminaries of Peace with the Republic of France —
. . . A detailed & most masterly exposition of these is to be found
in Mr Pitt's speech of the 3 Feby 1800, in which among other particulars,
an account is given of his proceedings toward the people and governments
of the several states of Milan, Modena, Genoa, Tuscany, the
Pope, Venice, & Egypt. Of all these things it may be said generally, & as
it should seem without exception, — rule was purposely the profusion of
engagements, & such the uniform and systematic breach of them, — that
not a single act was done, which was not in violation of some engagement,
& certainly not a single engagement contracted, or profession made,
that was not, in every part of it, grossly and in most cases instantly violated.
The french rulers, leave, throughout, evidently acted upon the principles
that he who could divest himself at once of all moral feeling, and
himself from all moral controull controul, must for the time
have an immense advantage over those who should remain under the
old constraints, and who might not be sensible immediately of the change
which had taken place, or, when they were, might be long incapable either
of adopting it into their own conduct, or of so their antient feelings
and habits (the habit for instance of relying in some degree on men's
apearances, yielding something to their professions, believing in part what they
should solemnly assert), as to make themselves proof against its effects.
Nobody has entered more fully into their views, or pursued them logically
, than the person of whom we are here speaking.
H p. xliii
The detail of this would then, that mere change of time and place made us
change in the character of the person, or of the system pursued. It appears by all,
that good faith passed for small nothing: that deceptions the most gross,
artifices unheard of in diplomatic proceedings, even practiced without
shame or scruple.
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