Note 26 — SECTION IX: CHAPTER II
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‘Faites donc pendre une douzaine d’individus à Madrid: il n’y manque point de mauvais sujets, et sans cela il n’y aura rien de fait.’ Nap. Corresp., 14,684. Compare Lecestre, Lettres inédites de Napoléon, i. 275, where orders are given that thirty persons, who had already been acquitted by the civil tribunals, should he rearrested, tried again before a court martial, and promptly shot! Napoleon to Joseph, Jan. 16, 1809.