[40] Southey, vol. iv., p. 10. The reader is requested to compare this account with that given by Lord Burghersh, in his "Memoir on the Early Campaigns of Wellington," p. 77--where the details are somewhat differently represented--ED. (1842.) [41] "Victor sent soldiers to every house, with orders to the inhabitants immediately to receive and accommodate the wounded of the two nations, who were lodged together, one English and one Frenchman; and he expressly directed that the Englishman should always be served first."--SOUTHEY, vol. iv., p. 49. [42] Southey, vol. iii., p. 168. [43] Southey, vol. iv., p. 159. [44] Napier, vol. ii., p. 349; Southey, vol. iii., p. 511. [45] "Various explanations have been offered of this name. One account says, that upon finding his family murdered by the French, Juan Martin Diaz smeared his face with pitch and made a solemn vow of vengeance. Another, that he was so called because of his swarthy complexion. But in the account of his life it is said, that all the inhabitants of Castrillo de Duero, where he was born, have this nickname indiscriminately given them by their neighbours, in consequence of a black mud, called _pecina_, deposited by a little stream which runs through the place; and the appellation became peculiar to him from his celebrity."--SOUTHEY, vol. iii., p. 511. [46] Southey, vol. iv., p. 405. [47] Southey, vol. iv., p. 415. [48] Southey, vol. iv., p. 482. CHAPTER LII. _Change in Napoleon's Principles of Government--Becomes suspicious of Talleyrand and Fouché--Fouché endeavours, without the knowledge of Napoleon, to ascertain the Views of England with respect to Peace--His Plan is defeated by a singular collision with a similar one of Napoleon--and Fouché is sent away as Governor-General of Rome--His Moral and Political Character--Murmurings of the People against the Austrian Alliance--Continental System--Ignorance of Napoleon of the Actual Political Feelings of Great Britain--The License System--Louis Buonaparte--Endeavours in vain to defend Holland from the Effects of the Continental System--He abdicates the Throne, and retires to Gratz in Styria--Holland is annexed to the French Empire._ [Sidenote: CHANGES IN NAPOLEON'S GOVERNMENT.]