They have gone to visit the coasts and prepare the preliminary operations for the descent [upon England].

It may be stated that he will not return to Rastadt, and that the close of the session of the Congress there is approaching." Now for the facts.

Bonaparte visited Etaples, Ambleteuse, Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Furnes, Niewport, Ostend, and the Isle of Walcheren.
He collected at the different ports all the necessary information with that intelligence and tact for which he was so eminently distinguished.
He questioned the sailors, smugglers, and fishermen, and listened attentively to the answers he received.
We returned to Paris by Antwerp, Brussels, Lille, and St.Quentin.

The object of our journey was accomplished when we reached the first of these towns.

"Well, General," said I, "what think you of our journey?
Are you satisfied?
For my part, I confess I entertain no great hopes from anything I have seen and heard." Bonaparte immediately answered, "It is too great a chance.