"The army which I confide to you is composed of my children; in all times, even in the midst of the greatest sufferings, I have received the marks of their attachment: keep alive in them these sentiments.

You owe this to the particular esteem and true attachment which I bear towards yourself." [Footnote 27: Djezzar means _butcher_: he had well earned this title by the mercilessness of his administration.] [Footnote 28: Sir Sydney Smith, having been taken prisoner and most unjustifiably confined by the French government in the dungeons of the Temple, had made his escape through the zeal of certain of the royalist party, and chiefly of Philippeaux.] [Footnote 29: The handsome swordsman--_i.e._ Murat.] [Footnote 30: De Bourienne, whose curious work has appeared since the first edition of this narrative was published, confirms this statement of Napoleon: but Napoleon, it is obvious, _might_ have received letters which he did not choose to communicate to his secretary.].