CHAPTER VII.

1797. Unfounded reports--Carnot--Capitulation of Mantua--General Clarke-- The Directory yields to Bonaparte--Berthier--Arrival of Eugène Beauharnais at Milan--Comte Delannay d'Entraigues--His interview with Bonaparte--Seizure of his papers--Copy of one describing a conversation between him and Comte de Montgaillard--The Emperor Francis--The Prince de Condé and General Pichegru. While Bonaparte was expressing his opinion on his campaigns and the injustice with which they had been criticised, it was…