This consequence of
peace is so much more to be pressed, as the very best conditions we
could offer in the treaty."
[116] Mathieu Dumas, III., 256. - Miot de Melito, I., 163, 191.
(Conversations with Bonaparte June and September, 1797.)
[117] Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique," No. for November 10, 1798.
How support gigantic and exacting crimes on its own soil? How can it
flatter itself that it will extract from an impoverished people,
without manufactures, trade or credit, nearly a billion of direct and
indirect subsidies? How renew that immense fund of confiscations on
which the French republic has lived for the past eight years? By
conquering every year a new nation and devastating its treasuries, its
character, its monts-de-pi?t?, its owners of property. The Republic,
for ten years past, would have laid down its arms had it been reduced
to its own capital.
[118] Mallet-Dupan, " Mercure Britannique," Nos. for November 25, and
December 25, 1798, and passim.
[119] Ibid., No. for January 25, 1799. "The French Republic is
eating Europe leaf by leaf like the head of an artichoke." It
revolutionizes nations that it may despoil them, and it despoils them
that it may subsist.
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