The only anxiety he displayed was in regard to assassination and kidnapping: the former he said he could meet like a soldier; of the latter he spoke with anxious foreboding. He had reason to fear both. Every week either in France or Italy or both, there was a plot among fanatical royalists and priests to kill him; and though the Barbary pirates were eager to seize him and win a great ransom, they were excelled in their zeal both by Mariotte, Talleyrand's agent in Leghorn, and by Bruslart, a bitter and ancient enemy, who had been appointed governor of Corsica for the purpose. For these reasons, probably, the Emperor of Elba lived as far as possible in seclusion. As time passed he grew less intimate with Campbell, but the Scotch gentleman did not attribute the fact to discontent. Before leaving Elba, on February sixteenth, to reside for a time in Florence and perform the duties of English envoy in that place, he gave it as his opinion that if Napoleon received the pension stipulated for in the treaty he would remain tranquilly where he was. CHAPTER XIII NAPOLEON THE LIBERATOR[16] [Footnote 16: References: Sorel, A.: Le traite de Paris du 20 novembre, 1815. I. Les cent jours. Lacretelle: Histoire de France depuis la restauration. Nettement: Histoire de la litterature francaise sous la restauration. Constant: Memoires sur les cent jours en forme de lettres. Lucien Bonaparte: La verite sur les cent jours.] Napoleon Ready to Reappear -- Reasons for his Determination -- The Return to France -- The Northward March -- Grenoble Opens its Gates -- The Lyons Proclamations -- The Emperor in the Tuileries -- The Emperor of the French -- The Additional Act -- Effects of the Return in France and Elsewhere -- The Congress of Vienna Denounces Napoleon.