. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . ed by the general, who, at the beginning ofthe campaign of 1796, had been forbidden even to sign anarmistice without consulting Salicetti ! It was speedily followed by another, which in manyrespects redounds to the credit of the young his conduct towards Venice inspires loathing, histreatment of Genoa must excite surprise and from one very natural outburst of spleen, it showslittle of that harshness which might have been expectedfrom the man who had looked on Genoa as the embodi-
. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . ed by the general, who, at the beginning ofthe campaign of 1796, had been forbidden even to sign anarmistice without consulting Salicetti ! It was speedily followed by another, which in manyrespects redounds to the credit of the young his conduct towards Venice inspires loathing, histreatment of Genoa must excite surprise and from one very natural outburst of spleen, it showslittle of that harshness which might have been expectedfrom the man who had looked on Genoa as the embodi-ment of mean despotism. Up to the summer of 1796Bonaparte seems to have retained something of his olddetestation of that republic; for at midsummer, when hewas in the full career of his Italian conquests, he wrote to 1 It would even seem, from Bonapartes letter of July 12th, 1797, thatnot till then did he deign to send on to Paris the terms of the treaty with Venice. He accompanied it with the cynical suggestion that they coulddo what they liked with the treaty, and even anmil it!. I ii > < o ow 33 H U o vn LEOBEN TO CAMPO FORMIO 135 Faypoult, the French envoy at Genoa, urging him to keepopen certain cases that were in dispute, and three weekslater he again wrote that the time for Genoa had not yetcome. Any definite action against this wealthy city was,indeed, most undesirable during the campaign; for thebankers of Genoa supplied the French army with thesinews of war by means of secret loans, and their mer-chants were equally complaisant in regard to services were appreciated by Bonaparte as much asthey were resented by Nelson; and possibly the succourwhich Genoese money and shipping covertly rendered tothe French expeditions for the recovery of Corsica mayhave helped to efface from Bonapartes memory the asso-ciations clustering around the once-revered name of ill-concealed hostility he drifted into a position oftolerance and finally of friends
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