2 NAPOLEON, PAOLI, TOULON

had broken with Paoli some years hefore that purely Corsican statesman, who loved Britain and British liberty with his whole heart, invited George III. to accept the protectorate of Corsica, to assist the local patriots in expelling the French, and to replace French rule by sending an English Governor to deal with the complex situation which then existed in the birth-land of Napoleon. Napoleon had quite recently attached himself definitely to the Jacobins by publishing the " Supper of Beaucaire."

The situation in Toulon was this. The Girondists, appalled by the excesses and the triumphant progress of the Jacobins, had appealed to all the European powers to assist them in saving Toulon and the French, fleet within its harbours from falling into the hands of these cruel monsters. They had nominally become Royalists to get the help they needed. Britain had responded by sending a fleet under Admiral Lord Hood. Spain also had sent a fleet. Both nations had reinforced the Girondist garrison with some soldiers. Austria had promised reinforcements, which did not arrive in time. Britain was endeavouring still further to increase her troops there, and amongst the reinforcements was the regiment which Moore commanded, the 5ist. It had been in garrison at Gibraltar from the 25th March 1792 to December of that year.

Lieut.-Col. Moore was at this time thirty-one years of age, having been born in Glasgow on the I3th November 1761. His father, Dr. Moore, was a physician and an author. He published four novels, of which the best-known was "Zelucco." He was also the author of several medical works involving original research, and of an account of the various countries