Note 330 — BOOK IX[247]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Peltier attacked Bonaparte in the Ambigu, which he published in London at the end of 1802. The First Consul, then at peace with England, asked for his expulsion, or at least his indictment before a British jury. Peltier was brought before the Court of King's Bench, was brilliantly defended by Sir James Mackintosh, and was sentenced to pay a trifling fine (21 February 1803).—B.