"The Allied Powers have armed all Europe against me, a part of the army has betrayed its duty, and France herself has desired other destinies. "With you and the brave men who have remained faithful to me, I could have kept up civil war for three years; but France would have been unhappy, which was contrary to the end which I proposed to myself. "Be faithful to the new King whom France has chosen; do not abandon our dear country, too long unhappy! Love her always, love her well, that dear country! "Do not pity my lot; I shall always be happy when I know you to be so. "I could have died; nothing would have been easier to me; but I shall never cease to follow the path of honour. I have yet to write what we have done. "I cannot embrace you all; but I will embrace your general.... Come, general!" He pressed General Petit[166] in his arms. "Bring me the eagle!" He kissed it. "Dear eagle! May these kisses resound in the heart of all brave men!... Farewell, my lads!... My good wishes will always accompany you; keep me in remembrance." These words spoken, Napoleon raised his tent, which covered the world. * Bonaparte had applied to the Allies for commissaries, so that he might be protected by them on his journey to the island which the sovereigns granted him as his absolute property and as an installment on the future. Count Schouvaloff was appointed for Russia, General Roller[167] for Austria, Colonel Campbell[168] for England, and Count Waldburg-Truchsess[169] for Prussia: the latter wrote the _Itinerary of Napoleon from Fontainebleau to Elba._ This pamphlet and the Abbé de Pradt's on the Polish Embassy are the two reports by which Napoleon was most pained. No doubt he then regretted the time of his liberal censorship, when he had poor Palm[170], the German bookseller, shot for distributing, at Nuremberg, Herr von Gentz's[171] work, _Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung._ Nuremberg, at the time of the publication of this work, was still a free city, and did not belong to France: ought not Palm to have been able to foresee that conquest? Count Waldburg begins by relating several conversations that took place at Fontainebleau previous to the departure. He states that Bonaparte awarded the greatest praise to Lord Wellington[172] and inquired as to his character and habits. He excused himself for not having made peace at Prague, Dresden and Frankfort; he agreed that he had been wrong, but that at that time he had had other views. "I was no usurper," he added, "because I accepted the crown only in compliance with the unanimous wish of the whole nation, whereas Louis XVIII. has usurped it, being called to the throne only by a vile Senate, more than ten of whose members voted for the death of Louis XVI." [Sidenote: He leaves for Elba.] Count Waldburg pursues his narrative as follows: