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The Due de Rovigo is not the author, but merely the echo, of this calumny; but the accusation to which his Memoirs gave currency afforded M. de Barbe Marbois an opportunity of adding one more to the many proofs he has given of his love of justice.
On the one hand were ranged Napoleon, Talleyrand, and Marbois; on the other, Jefferson, Livingston, and Monroe. The French were at a disadvantage; their position was that of holding perishable goods, which must be sold to avoid catastrophe. Napoleon said, not without reason, that the government of the United States availed itself of his distress incident to the impending struggle with England.
Marbois, promoted to the Intendancy of Hispaniola, which office is next to that of Governor. He becomes the head of the civil, as the Governor is of the military department.
The knowledge of this fact rests upon the highly trustworthy testimony of the Count de Marbois, then living in exile at Cayenne, a victim to his love of justice and of rational, constitutional liberty. Third. Mr.
"Our intention also is that our cousin aforesaid should preside over this commission. With this etc." The members of the senate appointed on this commission were M. de Fontanel, M. the Prince of Benevent, M. de Saint Marsan, M. de Barbe- Marbois, and M. de Beurnonville.
The day after my disgrace Renewal of my duties Bonaparte's affected regard for me Offer of an assistant M. de Meneval My second rupture with Bonaparte The Due de Rovigo's account of it Letter from M. de Barbe Marbois Real causes of my separation from the First Consul Postscript to the letter of M. de Barbe Marbois The black cabinet Inspection of letters dining the Consulate I retire to St.
The letter mentioned by M. de Marbois, and which was the occasion of this digression on the violation of private correspondence, derived importance from the circumstance that Wednesday, the 20th of October, when Bonaparte received it, was the day on which I left the Consular palace. I retired to a house which Bonaparte had advised me to purchase at St.
He would not have come here at all, but preceded his army to Strasburg, had his Minister of Finances, Gaudin, and his Minister of the Public Treasury, Marbois, been able to procure forty-four millions of livres to pay a part of the arrears of the troops; and for the speedy conveyance of ammunition and artillery towards the Rhine.
This Minister had made numerous enemies by the strict discharge of his duty, and yet, notwithstanding his rigid probity, he sunk under the accusation of having endangered the safety of the State by weakness of character. At this period even Madame de Stael said, in a party where the firmness of M. Barbs Marbois was the topic of conversation "What, he inflexible? He is only a reed bronzed!"
This unsolicited testimony of M. de Marbois is a sufficient contradiction to the charge of peculation which has been raised against me in the absence of correct information respecting the real causes of my rupture with the First Consul. M. le Due de Rovigo also observes that my enemies were numerous.
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