“ In June 1796 he made a journey to Italy in the hope of opening direct relations with Bonaparte. On his return to the princes at Blankenburg he was regarded with suspicion, and he departed for Paris to await events. He is thought to have indicated the possession by the comte d’Antraigues, agent of the princes, of documents compromising Pichegru. ”

“ In 1789 he was established in Paris as a secret diplomatic agent, and though he emigrated to England after the 10th of August 1792, he returned six weeks later to Paris, where his security was most probably purchased by services to the revolutionary government. He was again serving the Bourbon princes when he met Francis II. of Austria at Ypres in 1794 and saw Pitt in London, where he published his État de la France an mois de mai 1794, predicting the fall of Robespierre. ”

“ He received a salary of 14,000 francs, reduced later to 6000, for reports on political questions for Napoleon’s use, and for pamphlets Written to help the imperial policy. He tried to dissuade Napoleon from the Austrian marriage and the Russian campaign, and counselled the limitation of the empire Within the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees. ”