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The address and manners of a courtier are allowed Marquis de Gallo by all who know him, though few admit that he possesses any talents as a statesman. He is said to have read a great deal, to possess a good memory and no bad judgment; but that, notwithstanding this, all his knowledge is superficial. PARIS, August, 1805.
The occurrences of these two days hastened his departure from the coast for Aix-la-Chapelle, where the cringing of his courtiers consoled him, in part, for the want of respect or gallantry in your English tars. PARIS, August, 1805.
Her daughter, Victorine Louise, was another gifted musician, but died after a brief career, leaving a heritage of piano works and songs. Louise Angelique Bertin, born in 1805, was one of those impatient creatures who are eager to read books before learning the alphabet. In taking up painting, she wished to start in at once with canvas and brush, regardless of preliminary training.
I took her to General Van Ness's, where I made her at home. She plays on the piano in a style which may be called superior, and has a most uncommon fine voice, which has been neglected. Pittsburg, April 30, 1805. Arrived in good order yesterday. Find my boat and hands ready. The water high and weather fine. Shall set off in two hours.
He consented, however, that the Pope might institute, in the Ecclesiastical States, a seminary for two hundred young Frenchmen, whom he would exempt from military conscription. This is the stock from which our Church establishment is to be supplied! PARIS, October, 1805.
In the spring of 1804 Pitt resumed office, on the express understanding that he would not permit Catholic Emancipation; when the question was introduced in 1805 by Lord Grenville in the Lords, and by Fox in the Commons, it was defeated in both Houses by immense majorities, and Pitt declared that though he was still of opinion that there was no danger in the concession, yet, as long as the circumstances which prevented him from bringing it forward continued, he would be no party to agitating the question.
His natural talents are considered as but indifferent, and his education is worse. These are the only three military characters who might, with any prospect of success, have tried to play the part of a Napoleon Bonaparte in Holland. PARIS, August, 1805.
Yet no one even alleges that there was disorder or disorganisation in the French fleet at the date of anyone of those affairs. Indeed, if the French navy was really disorganised in 1794, it would have been better for France judging from the events of 1798 and 1805 if the disorganisation had been allowed to continue.
When a third coalition menaced France, in 1805, the Emperor gave Messéna the task of defending, with forty thousand men, the northern part of Ital, against the attacks of the Archduke Charles of Austria, who had eighty thousand.
We need not forget Nelson's complaint of paucity of frigates: but had the number attached to his fleet been doubled, the general disposition of vessels of the class then in commission would have been virtually unaltered. At the beginning of 1805, the year of Trafalgar, we had besides other classes 232 frigates and sloops in commission; at the beginning of 1806 we had 264.
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