Series D
“The peace of Amiens had always been regarded from the side of England as an armed truce: on the side of Napoleon it had a very different character.... A careful reader must admit that we were guilty of a breach of faith in not surrendering Malta. The promise of its surrender was the principal article of the treaty.”
England and Napoleon in 1803.
(Edited for the R. Hist. S. by Oscar Browning, 1887.)
Series D
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 225-231.)
| LETTER | PAGE | |
| Date | 225 | |
| No. 1. | The blister | 225 |
| Some plants | 225 | |
| If the weather is as bad | 226 | |
| Malmaison, without you | 228 | |
| No. 2. | The fat Eugène | 228 |
| No. 3. | Your letter has come | 229 |
| Injured whilst shooting a boar | 229 | |
| “The Barber of Seville” | 229 | |
| No. 4. | The Sèvres Manufactory | 230 |
| No. 5. | Your lover, who is tired of being alone | 230 |
| General Ney | 231 |
Josephine’s Two Visits to Plombières
1801 AND 1802.
Events of 1801.
January 1st.—Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
January 3rd.—French under Brune occupy Verona, and
January 8th.—Vicenza.
January 11th.—Cross the Brenta.
January 16th.—-Armistice at Treviso between Brune and the Austrian General Bellegarde.
February 9th.—Treaty of Luneville, by which the Thalweg of the Rhine became the boundary of Germany and France.
March 8th.—English land at Aboukir.
March 21st.—Battle of Alexandria (Canopus). Menou defeated by Abercromby, with loss of 2000.
March 24th.—The Czar Paul is assassinated.
March 28th.—Treaty of Peace between France and Naples, who cedes Elba and Piombino.
April 2nd.—Nelson bombards Copenhagen.
May 23rd.—General Baird lands at Kosseir on the Red Sea with 1000 English and 10,000 Sepoys.
June 7th.—French evacuate Cairo.
July 1st.—Toussaint-Louverture elected Life-Governor of St. Domingo. Slavery abolished there. The new ruler declares, “I am the Bonaparte of St. Domingo, and the Colony cannot exist without me;” and heads his letters to the First Consul, “From the First of the Blacks to the First of the Whites.”
July 15th.—Concordat between Bonaparte and the Pope, signed at Paris by Bonaparte, ratified by the Pope (August 15th).
August 4th.—Nelson attacks Boulogne flotilla and is repulsed.
August 15th.—Attacks again, and suffers severely.
August 31st.—Menou capitulates to Hutchinson at Alexandria.
September 29th.—Treaty of Peace between France and Portugal; boundaries of French Guiana extended to the Amazon.
October 1st.—Treaty between France and Spain, who restores Louisiana. Preliminaries of Peace between France and England signed in London.
October 8th.—Treaty of Peace between France and Russia.
October 9th.—And between France and Turkey.
December 14th.—Expedition sent out to St. Domingo by the French under General Leclerc.