Napoleon's court and cabinet of StCloud : in a series of letters . ItofiyUfU ISM ?._?. THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD 24I This explains to you the reason why the Russian note,delivered to the Diet of Ratisbon on the 8th of the followingMay, was left without any support, except the ineffectualone from the King of Sweden. How any cabinet could bedupe enough to think Bonaparte serious, or the Electorof Bavaria so weak as to enter into his schemes, is difficultto be conceived, had not Europe witnessed still greatercredulity on one side, and still greater effrontery on theother. In the meantime Bonaparte g
Napoleon's court and cabinet of StCloud : in a series of letters . ItofiyUfU ISM ?._?. THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD 24I This explains to you the reason why the Russian note,delivered to the Diet of Ratisbon on the 8th of the followingMay, was left without any support, except the ineffectualone from the King of Sweden. How any cabinet could bedupe enough to think Bonaparte serious, or the Electorof Bavaria so weak as to enter into his schemes, is difficultto be conceived, had not Europe witnessed still greatercredulity on one side, and still greater effrontery on theother. In the meantime Bonaparte grew every day more dis-contented with the Batavian Directory, and more irritatedagainst the members who composed it. Against his regula-tions for excluding the commerce and productions of yourcountry, they resented with spirit instead of obeyingthem without murmur as was required. He is said to havediscovered, after his own soldiers had forced the custom-house officers to obey his orders, that, while in theirproclamations the directors publicly prohibited the introduc-tion of Briti
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