The above-mentioned savant estimates the number of important letters not yet published at 2,000.] [Footnote 1103: "Memorial de Sainte Helene," by Las Casas (May 29, 1816).--"In Corsica, Paoli, on a horseback excursion, explained the positions to him, the places where liberty found resistance or triumphed.

Estimating the character of Napoleon by what he saw of it through personal observation, Paoli said to him, "Oh, Napoleon, there is nothing modern in you, you belong wholly to Plutarch!"-- Antonomarchi, "Memoires," Oct.

25, 1819.

The same account, slightly different, is there given: "Oh.

Napoleon," said Paoli to me, "you do not belong to this century; you talk like one of Plutarch's characters.