(Loan on the seminary funds obtained by force, June 23, 1790.)--I., 267, 269.

(Arrest of M.de la Jaille and other officers; plan for taking the citadel of Ajaccio.)--II., 115.

(letter to Paoli, February 17, 1792.) "Laws are like the statues of certain divinities--veiled on certain occasions."-- II., 125.

(Election of Bonaparte as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of volunteers, April 1, 1792.) The evening before he had Murati, one of the three departmental commissioners, carried off by an armed band from the house of the Peraldi, his adversaries, where he lodged.

Murati, seized unawares, is brought back by force and locked up in Bonaparte's house, who gravely says to him "I wanted you to be free, entirely at liberty; you were not so with the Peraldi."-- His Corsican biographer (Nasica, "Memoires sur la jeunesse et l'enfance de Napoleon,") considers this a very praiseworthy action] [Footnote 1232: Cf.