JOHN ASHTON. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. PAGE BIRTH AND GENEALOGY--HIS OWN ACCOUNT--MAJORCAN OR GREEK EXTRACTION--ENGLISH BIOGRAPHIES 1 CHAPTER II. DESCENT FROM THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK--ANAGRAMS, ETC., ON HIS NAME--THE BEAST OF THE APOCALYPSE--HIS MOTHER’S ACCOUNT OF HIS BIRTH 7 CHAPTER III. COUNT MARBŒUF, HIS PUTATIVE FATHER--POVERTY OF THE BONAPARTE FAMILY--EARLY PERSONAL DESCRIPTION OF NAPOLEON--HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF--SATIRISTS’ NARRATION OF HIS SCHOOL-DAYS 15 CHAPTER IV. NAPOLEON AT THE ÉCOLE MILITAIRE--PERSONAL DESCRIPTION--_PUSS IN BOOTS_--VISIT TO CORSICA--SOLICITS SERVICE IN ENGLAND-- REPORTED VISIT TO LONDON--SIEGE OF TOULON 22 CHAPTER V. NAPOLEON’S PROMOTION--HIS POVERTY--JUNOT’S KINDNESS--REVOLT OF THE SECTIONS--NAPOLEON’S SHARE THEREIN--MADE GENERAL OF THE INTERIOR--INTRODUCTION TO JOSEPHINE--SKETCH OF HER LIFE 29 CHAPTER VI. JOSEPHINE’S DRESS AND PERSONAL APPEARANCE--HER REPUTED CONNECTION WITH BARRAS--MARRIAGE WITH NAPOLEON--HER TASTES AND DISPOSITION 36 CHAPTER VII. NAPOLEON MADE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF ITALY--HIS SHORT HONEYMOON--HIS FIRST VICTORY--STATE OF THE FRENCH ARMY--THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN--FRENCH DESCENT ON IRELAND--ITS RESULT-- STATE OF ENGLAND 43 CHAPTER VIII. NAPOLEON DESPOILS ITALY OF HER WORKS OF ART--THE SIEGE OF MANTUA --WÜRMSER’S SURRENDER--EARLIEST ENGLISH CARICATURE OF NAPOLEON --INVASION OF ENGLAND--LANDING IN PEMBROKESHIRE--NELSON’S RECEIPT TO MAKE AN OLLA PODRIDA--‘THE ARMY OF ENGLAND’ 48 CHAPTER IX. CARICATURES ABOUT THE FRENCH INVASION--FOX’S FRENCH PROCLIVITIES --PATRIOTISM IN THE COUNTRY--EXPEDITION TO EGYPT--NELSON’S BLUNDERS--LANDING IN EGYPT--NAPOLEON AS A MAHOMETAN--HIS PROCLAMATIONS 54 CHAPTER X. CONDUCT OF FRENCH SOLDIERY--NAPOLEON’S HATRED OF ENGLAND--THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN--DESTRUCTION OF THE MAMELUKES--BATTLE OF THE NILE--TARDY NEWS THEREOF 64 CHAPTER XI. RECEPTION OF THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE--NELSON SENDS FRENCH ADMIRAL’S SWORD TO THE CITY OF LONDON--VARIOUS CARICATURES ON THE BATTLE--TYPICAL JOHN BULL 69 CHAPTER XII. REVOLT AND MASSACRE AT CAIRO--CARICATURES OF THE CAPTURE OF FRENCH SHIPS--FIGHTING FOR THE DUNGHILL, ETC.--PRICE OF BREAD AND CONSOLS IN 1798 77 CHAPTER XIII.