[36] Montholon, tom. iii., p. 14.--Nothing can be more inaccurate than to term the _Souper de Beaucaire_ a Jacobin pamphlet, although it is unquestionably written to urge the Federalists to submit to their inevitable fate, and avert extremity by doing so in time. The work is nearly free from the cant language of the day. There is no mention of liberty, equality, fraternity, or the rights of man, &c.--no abstract discussion of political principles. The whole merits of the dispute betwixt Paris and the departments are hurried over with little or no argument. Buonaparte urges the Marseillois to submission, not because the principles which dictated their insurrection were erroneous, but because they had not means to maintain successful resistance; not because they had been confuted by the Jacobins in argument, but because they were unequal to the task of contending with them by force. In after time, however, he called in and destroyed every copy of the _Souper de Beaucaire_ which could be found, so that only one remained, from which the recent reprint of Monsieur Pancoucke has been executed.--S.--As remarkable specimens of Napoleon's easy style and habits of thinking, the opening and closing parts of this pamphlet are given, translated into English, in No. III. of the Appendix to this volume. CHAPTER II. _Siege of Toulon--Recapitulation--Buonaparte appointed to the Command of the Artillery at Toulon--Finds every thing in disorder--His plan for obtaining the Surrender of the Place--Adopted--Anecdotes during the Siege--Allied troops resolve to evacuate Toulon--Dreadful Particulars of the Evacuation--England censured on this occasion--Lord Lynedoch--Fame of Buonaparte increases, and he is appointed Chief of Battalion in the Army of Italy--Joins Headquarters at Nice--On the Fall of Robespierre, Buonaparte superseded in command--Arrives in Paris in May, 1795, to solicit employment--He is unsuccessful--Retrospect of the Proceedings of the National Assembly--Difficulties in forming a new Constitution--Appointment of the Directory--of the Two Councils of Elders and of Five Hundred--Nation at large, and Paris in particular, disgusted with their pretensions--Paris assembles in Sections--General Danican appointed their Commander-in-Chief--Menou appointed by the Directory to disarm the National Guards--but suspended for incapacity--Buonaparte appointed in his room--The Day of the Sections--Conflict betwixt the Troops of the Convention under Buonaparte, and those of the Sections of Paris under Danican--The latter defeated with much slaughter--Buonaparte appointed Second in Command of the Army of the Interior--then General-in-Chief--Marries Madame Beauharnais--Her Character--Buonaparte immediately afterwards joins the Army of Italy._ [Sidenote: SIEGE OF TOULON.]