20, 1803): "The government declares with a just pride that England cannot now contend against France."-- Campaign of 1805, 9th bulletin, words of Napoleon in the presence of Mack's staff: "I recommend my brother the Emperor of Germany to make peace as quick as he can! Now is the time to remember that all empires come to an end; the idea that an end might come to the house of Lorraine ought to alarm him."-- Letter to the Queen of Naples, January 2, 1805: "Let your Majesty listen to what I predict.
On the first war breaking out, of which she might be the cause, she and her children will have ceased to reign; her children would go wandering about among the different countries of Europe begging help from their relations."] [Footnote 1297: 37th bulletin, announcing the march of an army on Naples "to punish the Queen's treachery and cast from the throne that criminal woman, who, with such shamelessness, has violated all that men hold sacred."-- Proclamation of May 13, 1809: "Vienna, which the princes of the house of Lorraine have abandoned, not as honorable soldiers yielding to circumstances and the chances of war, but as perjurers pursued by remorse....

In flying from Vienna their adieus to its inhabitants consisted of murder and fire.

Like Medea, they have sacrificed their children with their own hands."-- 13th bulletin: "The rage of the house of Lorraine against the city of Vienna,"] [Footnote 1298: Letter to the King of Spain, Sept.

18, 1803, and a note to the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, on the Prince de la Paix: "This favorite, who has succeeded by the most criminal ways to a degree unheard of in the annals of history....

Let Your Majesty put away a man who, maintaining in his rank the low passions of his character, has lived wholly on his vices."-- After the battle of Jena, 9th, 17th, 18th, and 19th bulletins, comparison of the Queen of Prussia with Lady Hamilton, open and repeated insinuations, imputing to her an intrigue with the Emperor Alexander.