The Ligurian republic sent the Doge to Milan to congratulate the King of Italy, and also to offer their territories for the formation of another department of the French empire.

But this was a step of his ambition which led to serious results.
Meanwhile Eugene Beauharnois, son to Josephine, was left Viceroy at Milan, and the imperial pair returned to Paris.
[Footnote 47: To this period belong Sir W.Scott's song to the Edinburgh Volunteers:-- "If ever breath of British gale Shall fan the tricolor, Or footstep of invader rude, With rapine foul and red with blood, Pollute our happy shore-- Then farewell home! and farewell friends! Adieu each tender tie! Resolved, we mingle in the tide Where charging squadron furious ride, To conquer or to die," &c.
And various sonnets of Mr.Wordsworth; such as-- "It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom," &c.
"Vanguard of liberty! ye men of Kent, Ye children of a soil that doth advance Its haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the time to prove your hardiment!" &c.
] [Footnote 48: This account was published _more than twenty years afterwards_, in consequence of a pamphlet by Savary (Duke of Rovigo).] [Footnote 49: About a year afterwards Captain Wright was found dead in his dungeon in the Temple, with his throat cut from ear to ear.

This mystery has hitherto remained in equal darkness; but Buonaparte was far from Paris at the period of Wright's death, and, under all the circumstances of the case, there seems to be no reason for supposing that he could have had any concern in that tragedy.] [Footnote 50: _i.e._ Kill-king.].