Napoleon and King Murat, a biography compiled from hitherto unknown and unpublished documents . that M. Daure be called uponto resign the portfolios of War, the Marine, and thePolice. ^ The previous day he had had a stormy inter-view with Lanusse, the Grand Marshal, who was nodoubt implicated in the letters discovered by Maghella,and accepted his resignation. Despite the fact thathis wife was pregnant, Lanusse was compelled to quitthe palace within twenty-four hours, * though he re-mained a few days longer in Naples. It is probablethat had he wished he might have been restored toJoachims good
Napoleon and King Murat, a biography compiled from hitherto unknown and unpublished documents . that M. Daure be called uponto resign the portfolios of War, the Marine, and thePolice. ^ The previous day he had had a stormy inter-view with Lanusse, the Grand Marshal, who was nodoubt implicated in the letters discovered by Maghella,and accepted his resignation. Despite the fact thathis wife was pregnant, Lanusse was compelled to quitthe palace within twenty-four hours, * though he re-mained a few days longer in Naples. It is probablethat had he wished he might have been restored toJoachims good graces, since the King, through Mosbourg,offered him the command of the Household Troops. ButLanusse, mistrusting the constancy of the Kings favour,elected to depart. As for Daure, his offices had been torn from himwith every circumstance of harshness. Murat hadordered the Chief Judge to demand the return of all the ^ Diario di Nicola. ^ Gallo to Campochiaro, August 16, 1811, Naples. Archivio di Stato. * Durant to Bassano, Naples, August 17, 1811. Affaires £trangires. * Diat io di I I-roin a iiihiiatiiri—artist unkno<K<ii. hi the possession of the /?raiicis Joseph I THE TWO DECREES 157 letters which Her Majesty had written to him, and thedemand was at once complied with. Daure, though theterms of the Emperors decree made it impossible forhim to be expelled the country, quickly determined onhis course of action. On the i8th he set out by night forFrance without a passport. He possessed full knowledge of the secret influencesthat were at work in Naples. Though not in the councilsof the Nationalist caucus, his official duties as PoliceMinister and his relations with the Masonic Lodges hadacquainted him with the undercurrents of the Italianpolicy. He was fully cognisant of the part which theNationalists desired the Kng to play, as well as of thelatters eagerness to listen to their suggestions. It wastherefore urgent that Joachim should neutrah
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