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series of dots (....) were employed where a name was elided. These have
been replaced with long dashes (———) in order to avoid awkward line
breaks.
Given the publication date, spelling has been generally allowed to stand
as printed. But errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been
corrected, and are noted here.
There were a number of instances in the text where quoted words were
missing either an opening or closing quotation mark. The proper
placement is not always obvious, but the most plausible choice has been
made. The paragraph beginning at the foot of p. 294 was particularly
obscure and has been left to the reader to decipher.
The issues tabulated below should be noted, along with the resolutions.
The references below are to the page and line in the original.
9.26 the glory and prosperity of their [‘/,] Inverted.
9.40 my establis[h]ment on the throne Added.
21.32 you were attending the birth of a cob[b]ler’s Added.
son.
30.13 they had been greatly deceived on [t]his Added.
point.
36.33 leading in very different d[i]rections. Added.
45.40 [“]I shall keep this and give you mine Added.
55.15 We wanted all this, and, ther[e]fore], in Added.
spite of
55.17 plunged into confusion and t[mulu/umul]t Transposed.
55.36 and said, [“]You see his best friends Added.
62.21 the leading star of the nations....[”] Added.
63.4 said the Emperor, “[h]e decided the fate of Added.
France
67.17 he did not spare him[.] Added.
68.19 “Sire,” said he at length, [“]a circumstance Added.
occurred to me
80.31 "Art. V.[—]His Majesty the King Added.
89.7 an aide-de-camp is the best man that can be Added.
chosen[.]
90.20 [“/‘]You will see that they will hold Replaced.
90.22 detained me to-day.[’]” Added.
101.13 Abb[e/é] de Pradt," continued the Emperor Replaced.
105.33 [“]Talleyrand, perhaps, might have done this: Added.
106.16 How many arra[n]gements should I not have Added.
proposed!
108.20 [“]If all this be attributed Added.
120.30 It can be proved [t]hat this was merely the Restored.
result
131.11 Here I committed an error,[”] said the Added.
Emperor,
131.12 [“]which the more unpardonable Added.
133.28 [“/‘]We are placing,[”/’] Replaced
133.29 said they, [“/‘]an Italian Replaced.
133.31 on the Gauls.[’”] Added.
136.10 I placed one [one] of my brothers at their Removed.
head
137.25 the period in which he flourished.[”] Added.
149.23 [“/‘]You had better have taken his life, I Replaced.
should
149.26 me to console him in his misery.[’] Added.
167.38 ‘M. L[a/e] Sage,’ said he, Replaced.
168.4 a considerable time afterwar[d]s Added.
172.41 [“]There have been published Added.
174.27 two millions[,] worth of copies Removed.
180.28 till half-past eight o’clock[,/.] Replaced.
199.16 [“]I was provoked to the utmost extreme Added.
226.2 the Duke [D/d]’Enghien, Replaced.
231.19 on the part of the First Co[u]nsul to M. de Removed.
Chateaubriand
241.10 your duties, submission, and dependance, Added.
&c.[”]
267.37 [“]Two of the generals, Added.
270.22 [“]But this proved for me," said the Emperor Added.
276.30 who amused himself with calcu[l]ating Added.
281.15 complete liberty of universal exchange.[”] Added.
285.24 Brissot, Condorcet, Vergn[i]aud>, Gaudet Added.
288.1 All thos[e], in the higher classes of society Added.
300.38 acts of vileness have reduced France[’] in the Removed.
eyes
303.38 the _corps [d]’armée_ Added.
315.22 said[,] “I found it a very difficult thing Added.
316.8 “Six, Sire.” [“]How the plague can that be?” Added.
317.7 “Well,[”] said he Added.
317.13 I can bet[t]er employ the leisure Added.
318.4 the Emperor’s place on an eleva[va]tion of one Removed.
or two steps.
326.3 a discussion once arose respec[t]ing the plan Added.
of a decree
334.29 19th.—To[ /-]day the Northumberland sailed Added.
354.5 in all the instruments and access[a/o]ries of Replaced.
war.
382.21 [“]That is not the matter;” Added.
385.6 he had chosen, in Cambac[èré/érè]s and Lebrun, Transposed.
387.16 of this blockade of Madame Bert[r]and Added.
397.26 [“]However,” said the Emperor Removed.