The
secretary of Rapinat, Amberg, retired with 300,000 livres." General
Lorge carried off 150,000 livres in specie, besides a lot of gold
medals taken from the H?tel-de-Ville at Berne; his two brigadier-
generals, Rampon and Pijon, each appropriated 216,000 livres. "Gen.
Duheur, encamped in Brisgav, sent daily to the three villages at once
the bills of fare for his meals and ordered requisitions for them; he
demanded of one, articles in kind and, simultaneously, specie of
another. He was content with 100 florins a day, which he took in
provisions and then in money." - " Massena, on entering Milan at
eleven o'clock in the evening, had carried off in four hours, without
giving any inventory or receipt, all the cash-boxes of the convents,
hospitals and monts-de-pi?t?, which were enormously rich, taking also,
among others, the casket of diamonds belonging to Prince Belgiojoso.
That night was worth to Massena 1,200,000 livres." (Mallet-Dupan,
"Mercure Britannique," February 10, 1799, and "Journal," MS., March,
1797.) On the sentiments of the Italians, cf. the letter of
Lieutenant Dupin, Prairial 27, year VIII.; (G. Sand, "Histoire de ma
vie," II. 251) one account of the battle of Marengo, lost up to two
o'clock in the afternoon; "I already saw that the Po, and the Tessin
were to be crossed, a country to traverse of which every inhabitant is
our enemy.
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