LEOBEN TO CAMPO FORMIO In signing the preliminaries of peace at Leoben, which formed in part the basis for the Treaty of Campo Formio, Bonaparte appears as a diplomatist of the first rank.

He had already signed similar articles with the Court of Turin and with the Vatican.

But such a transaction with the Emperor was infinitely more important than with the third-rate powers of the peninsula.

He now essays his first flight to the highest levels of international diplomacy.

In truth, his mental endowments, like those of many of the greatest generals, were no less adapted to success in the council-chamber than on the field of battle; for, indeed, the processes of thought and the methods of action are not dissimilar in the spheres of diplomacy and war.