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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Vol. 3: From Original Family Documents
Soon after his installation into office, (dec. 25) the First Consul had promised the people of France a durable peace. Peace-making, however, was so evidently not his vocation, that there must have been very few Frenchmen affected by the prospect of repose and happiness, such a promise suggested. This peace, he prudently explained, was not to be purchased at the costly expense of conquest, but to be produced by negotiation, conducted on principles of moderation. Before the more thoughtful members of his audience had finished speculating upon the object of this singular announcement, a letter had crossed the Channel directed to the King of Great Britain and Ireland, written by the First Consul, and forwarded by Talleyrand, his Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
