My brother was connected with what was termed an 'enterprise d'encan national', where persons intending to quit France received an advance of money, on depositing any effects which they wished to dispose of, and which were sold for them immediately.

Bonaparte had some time previously pledged his watch in this way.
After the fatal 10th of August Bonaparte went to Corsica, and did not return till 1793.

Sir Walter Scott says that after that time he never saw Corsica again.

This is a mistake, as will be shown when I speak of his return from Egypt.
-- [Sir Walter appears to have collected his information for the Life of Napoleon only from those libels and vulgar stories which gratified the calumnious spirit and national hatred.

His work is written with excessive negligence, which, added to its numerous errors, shows how much respect he must have entertained for his readers.