[40] This letter appeared in the _Moniteur_, 10th December, 1793. But as the town of Toulon was taken a few days afterwards, the Convention voted the letter a fabrication.--S.--"This was unfair; for it was genuine, and gave a just idea of the opinion that prevailed when it was written, respecting the issue of the siege, and of the difficulties that prevailed in Provence."--NAPOLEON, _Memoirs_, vol. i., p. 22. [41] Las Cases, vol. i., p. 140. [42] It was to Gasparin that Napoleon was indebted for the triumph of his plan over the objections of the committees of the Convention. He preserved a grateful recollection of this circumstance, as appears by his will. It was Gasparin, he used to say, who had first opened his career.--LAS CASES, vol. i., p. 144. [43] Las Cases, vol. i., p. 147. [44] Las Cases, vol. i., p. 154. [45] Napoleon says six thousand.--GOURGAUD, tom. i., p. 17. [46] Gourgaud, tom. i., p. 24. [47] Jomini, tom. iv., p. 223; Toulongeon, tom. iv., p. 88; Napoleon's Memoirs, vol. i., p. 25; Rivington's Annual Register, 1793, p. 415. [48] Moniteur, 28th December. [49] "Amongst those who chiefly distinguished themselves are the citizens Buonaparte, commandant of the artillery, Arena, and Gervoni."--DUGOMMIER _to the Minister of War_. [50] Rivington's Annual Register, 1793, p. 415. [51] James's Naval History, vol. i., p. 115; Thiers, tom. vi., p. 59.--"The total number borne away amounted to 14,877."--_Mémoires de Joubert_, p. 75. [52] Mr. Graham of Balgowan, now Lord Lynedoch. He marched out on one of the sorties, and when the affair became hot, seized the musket and cartouch-box of a fallen soldier, and afforded such an example to the troops, as contributed greatly to their gaining the object desired.--S. [53] Jomini, tom. iv., p. 226; Lacretelle, tom. xi., p. 189. [54] Montholon, tom. iii., p. 13; Jomini, tom. iv., p. 226; Las Cases, vol. i., p. 153. [55] Las Cases, vol. i., p. 152. [56] "Dugommier wrote to the Committee of Public Safety, soliciting the rank of brigadier-general for him, and concluded with these words, 'Reward this young man, and promote him, for should he be ungratefully treated, he will promote himself.'"--NAPOLEON, _Montholon_, tom. iii., p. 15. Dugommier was killed on the following November, by the bursting of a field-piece. Napoleon bequeathed to his descendant 100,000 francs, "as a testimonial of gratitude for the esteem, affection, and friendship of that brave and intrepid general." [57] Gourgaud, tom. i., p. 30. [58] An Englishman will probably remember the sublime passage in "The Mariners of England:"-- "Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep; Her march is on the mountain-wave, Her home is on the deep." [59] "Brunet being unjustly accused of favouring the insurrection at Marseilles, was delivered up to the Revolutionary Tribunal at Paris, and perished on the scaffold."--NAPOLEON, _Montholon_, tom. iii., p. 21.