Note 663 — APPENDIX.
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When Bernadotte came into the ministry, it became a question whether Buonaparte should not be sent for from Egypt.—"It is the army you mean," said the minister,—"for as to the general, you know he has an eye to the dictatorship; and sending vessels to bring him to France, would just be giving it to him."
A French fleet was at that time cruizing in the Mediterranean,—the minister insisted that it should be ordered to Toulon.