_Napoleon's Amatory Correspondence with Josephine--His Court at Montebello--Negotiations and Pleasure mingled there--Genoa--Revolutionary spirit of the Genoese--They rise in insurrection, but are quelled by the Government, and the French plundered and imprisoned--Buonaparte interferes, and appoints the Outlines of a new Government--Sardinia--Naples--The Cispadane, Transpadane, and Emilian Republics, united under the name of the Cisalpine Republic--The Valteline--The Grisons--The Valteline united to Lombardy--Great improvement of Italy, and the Italian Character, from these changes--Difficulties in the way of Pacification betwixt France and Austria--The Directory and Napoleon take different Views--Treaty of Campo Formio--Buonaparte takes leave of the Army of Italy, to act as French Plenipotentiary at Rastadt._ When peace returns, it brings back the domestic affections, and affords the means of indulging them. Buonaparte was yet a bridegroom, though he had now been two years married, and upwards. A part of his correspondence with his bride has been preserved, and gives a curious picture of a temperament as fiery in love as in war. The language of the conqueror, who was disposing of states at his pleasure, and defeating the most celebrated commanders of the time, is as enthusiastic as that of an Arcadian. We cannot suppress the truth, that (in passages which we certainly shall not quote) it carries a tone of indelicacy, which, notwithstanding the intimacy of the married state, an English husband would not use, nor an English wife consider as the becoming expression of connubial affection. There seems no doubt, however, that the attachment which these letters indicate was perfectly sincere, and on one occasion at least, it was chivalrously expressed;--"Wurmser shall buy dearly the tears which he makes you shed."[290]