[9] He was never brought up to receive sentence, our quarrel with the French having soon afterwards come to an absolute rupture. [Peltier was a native of Nantes. On the restoration of the Bourbons, he returned to Paris, where he died in 1825.] [10] "Thence the resentment which Buonaparte felt against England. 'Every wind which blows,' said he, 'from that direction, brings nothing but contempt and hatred against my person.' From that time he concluded that the peace could not benefit him; that it would not leave him sufficient facility to aggrandize his dominion externally, and would impede the extension of his internal power; that, moreover, our daily relations with England modified our political ideas and revived our thoughts of liberty."--FOUCHÉ, tom. i., p. 257. [11] "When Napoleon was shown, at St. Helena, some numbers of _L'Ambigu_, he said, 'Ah! Peltier. He has been libelling me these twenty years: but I am very glad to get them.'"--O'MEARA, vol. i., p. 385. [12] For a copy of Sebastiani's report to the first consul, see Annual Register, vol. xlv., p. 742. [13] "Whatever success intrigues may experience in London, no other people will be involved in new combinations. The government says, with conscious truth, that England, single-handed, cannot maintain a struggle against France."--_View of the State of the Republic_, Feb. 22, 1803. See Annual Register, vol. xlv., p. 760. [14] See Declaration, dated Westminster, May 18, 1803; Annual Register, vol. xlv., p. 742. [15] "The conference with Lord Whitworth proved for me a lesson which altered my method for ever. From this moment I never treated officially of political affairs, but through the intervention of my minister for foreign affairs. He, at any rate, could give a positive and formal denial, which the sovereign could not do."--NAPOLEON, tom. iv., p. 156. [16] Lord Whitworth had been, successively,--in 1786, minister plenipotentiary at Warsaw,--in 1788, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to St. Petersburgh,--and, in 1800, minister plenipotentiary to the court of Denmark. [17] "If Buonaparte had wished for the maintenance of peace, he would sedulously have avoided giving umbrage and inquietude to England, with regard to its Indian possessions, and would have abstained from applauding the rhodomontades about the mission of Sebastiani into Syria and Turkey. His imprudent conversation with Lord Whitworth accelerated the rupture. I foresaw, from that time, that he would quickly pass from a certain degree of moderation, as chief of the government, to acts of exaggeration, violence, and even rage."--FOUCHÉ, tom. i., p. 259. [18] See Extract of a Despatch from Lord Whitworth to Lord Hawkesbury, dated Paris, Feb. 17; Annual Register, vol. xlv., p. 685. [19] Annual Register, vol. xlv., p. 646. [20] Annual Register, vol. xlv., p. 697.