18: "He sometimes pays them left-handed compliments on their toilet or adventures, which was his way of censuring morals."-- "Mes souvenirs sur Napoleon," 322 by le Comte Chaptal: "At a fete, in the Hotel de Ville, he exclaimed to Madame----, who had just given her name to him: 'Good God, they told me you were pretty!' To some old persons: 'You haven't long to live! To another lady: 'It is a fine time for you, now your husband is on his campaigns!' In general, the tone of Bonaparte was that of an ill-bred lieutenant.

He often invited a dozen or fifteen persons to dinner and rose from the table before the soup was finished...

The court was a regular galley where each rowed according to command."] [Footnote 1293: Madame de Remusat, I., 114, 122, 206; II., 110, 112.] [Footnote 1294: Ibid., I., 277.] [Footnote 1295: "Hansard's Parliamentary History," vol.XXXVI.,.310.
Lord Whitworth's dispatch to Lord Hawkesbury, March 14, 1803, and account of the scene with Napoleon.

"All this took place loud enough for the two hundred persons present to hear it."-- Lord Whitworth (dispatch of March 17) complains of this to Talleyrand and informs him that he shall discontinue his visits to the Tuileries unless he is assured that similar scenes shall not occur again .-- Lord Hawkesbury approves of this (dispatch of March 27), and declares that the proceeding is improper and offensive to the King of England .-- Similar scenes, the same conceit and intemperate language, with M.de Metternich, at Paris, in 1809, also at Dresden, in 1813: again with Prince Korsakof, at Paris, in 1812; with M.de Balachof, at Wilna, in 1812, and with Prince Cardito, at Milan, in 1805.] [Footnote 1296: Before the rupture of the peace of Amiens ("Moniteur," Aug.

8, 1802): The French government is now more firmly established than the English government."-- ("Moniteur" Sept.10, 1802): "What a difference between a people which conquers for love of glory and a people of traders who happen to become conquerors!"-- ("Moniteur," Feb.