Another day, it was on the point of sending every gold piece in the musee of medals to be melted down (worth in the crucible from 5000 to 6000 francs)."] [Footnote 2108: "Theorie constitutionnelle de Sieyes." (Extract from unpublished memoirs by Boulay de la Meurthe.) Paris, 1866, Renouard.] [Footnote 2109: "Correspondance de Napoleon 1er," XXX..

345.
("Memoires.")--"Memorial de Sainte-Helene"] [Footnote 2110: "Extrait des Memoires" de Boulay de la Meurthe, p.50.
(Words of Bonaparte to Roederer about Sieyes, who raised objections and wanted to retire.) "If Sieyes goes into the country, draw up for me at once the plan of a constitution.

I will summon the primary assemblies in a week and make them accept it after discharging the (Constituant) committees."] [Footnote 2111: "Correspondance de Napoleon ler" XXX., 345, 346.
("Memoires.") "Circumstances were such as to still make it necessary to disguise the unique magistracy of the president."] [Footnote 2112: The Revolution," III., 458, 417.--"Mercure britannique," nos.

for November 1798 and January 1799.

(Letters from Belgium.)--"More than 300 millions have been seized by force in these desolated provinces; there is not a landowner whose fortune has not been ruined, or sequestrated, or fatally sapped by forced levies and the flood of taxes which followed these, by robberies of movable property and the bankruptcy due to France having discredited claims on the emperor and on the governments, in short through confiscation."-- The insurrection breaks out, as in Vendee, on account of the conscription; the war-cry of the insurgents is, "Better die here than elsewhere."] [Footnote 2113: De Martel, "Les Historiens fantaisistes," part 2 (on the Pacification of the West, according to reports of the royalist leaders and of the republican generals).] [Footnote 2114: Archives nationales, F7, 3218.