Even his old enemy, George Cruikshank, whose peculiarly impetuous temper had found a free vent in caricaturing Napoleon, left off doing so when he was in safe keeping, and only designed (in a publication called the ‘Omnibus’) a ‘Monument to Napoleon’ when he died. In a note to this design he says, ‘As for me, who have skeletonised him prematurely, paring down the prodigy even to his hat and boots, I have but “carried out” a principle adopted almost in my boyhood, for I can scarcely remember the time when I did not take some patriotic pleasure in persecuting the great enemy of England. Had he been less than that, I should have felt compunction for my cruelties; having tracked him through snow and through fire, by flood and by field, insulting, degrading, and deriding him everywhere, and putting him to several humiliating deaths. All that time, however, he went on “overing” the Pyramids and the Alps, as boys “over” posts, and playing at leapfrog with the sovereigns of Europe, so as to kick a crown off at every spring he made--together with many crowns, and sovereigns, into my coffers. Deep, most deep, in a personal view of matters, are my obligations to the agitator--but what a debt the country _owes to him_!’ [Illustration] INDEX. Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, i. 143 Achambau, i. 217 Addington, i. 150, 163, 164, 165, 171, 177 Addington, Hely, i. 177 Alfieri, i. 1 Allessandria, Senator, i. 2 Allies, treaty of, ii. 229 Amiens, Treaty of, i. 149, 151 Anagrams, &c., on Napoleon’s name, i. 7, 8, 10, 12, 13 Andreossi, General, i. 176 Ansell, caricaturist, i. 74, 150, 152, 158, 164, 168, 170, 172, 176, 187, 202, 223, 227, 282, 290; ii. 8-14, 16, 17, 19, 53, 58, 61, 63, 66, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 79, 84, 97 Apocalyptic Beast, the, connected with Napoleon, i. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Arcola, battle of, i. 44 Argus, caricaturist, ii. 37, 51, 60 Armistead, or Armstead, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Fox), i. 157 Arms of the Bonaparts, i. 2 ‘Army of England,’ the, i. 52, 53 ‘Army of England,’ withdrawal of, ii. 43, 44 Artand, Chevalier, i. 2 Atrocities of Brutus Napoleone Ali Buonaparte, i. 258 Austrian ambassador’s drive through Paris, i. 162 Barclay de Tolly, ii. 126 Barras, i. 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 52, 53, 217, 218 Bassano, battle of, i. 44 Bathurst, Bragge, i. 177 Beauharnais, Eugène de, i. 32, 88, 218; ii. 208 Beauharnais, Fanny, i. 218 Beaulieu (Austrian General), i. 43 Bedford, Duke of, i. 54, 56, 57, 72, 152 Beer brewed in London in 1796, i. 47 Belliard, General, i. 143 Bernadotte, ii. 168, 221 Berry, Captain, presented with the freedom of the City of London, i. 72 Berthier, Marshal, i. 45, 46, 96, 105, 112, 217; ii. 111, 112, 114, 191 Berthollet, Claude Louis, Comte, i. 112 Birba, La, great-grandmother of Napoleon, i. 5, 6 Birth, date of Napoleon’s, i. 13, 14 Bisset, James, caricaturist, ii. 21