10, 1810: "Fresh guarantees having become necessary, the annexation to the Empire of the mouths of the Escaut, the Meuse, the Rhine, the Ems, the Weser, and the Elbe, seemed to me to be the first and most important....

The annexation of the Valais is an anticipated result of the vast works I have undertaken for the past ten years in that section of the Alps."] [Footnote 12120: We are familiar with the Spanish affair.

His treatment of Portugal is anterior and of same order.-" Correspondance." (Letter to Junot, Oct.31, 1807):--'I have already informed you, that in authorizing you to enter as an auxiliary, it was to enable you to possess yourself of the (Portuguese) fleet, but my mind was made up to take Portugal."-- (Letter to Junot, Dec.

23, 1807): "Disarm the country.

Send all the Portuguese troops to France....