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Excerpt from British Credit in the Last Napoleonic War The enquiry, of which these pages are the result, was undertaken at the suggestion of a History Lecturer, who pointed out that if it could be shown that Napoleon's decrees were consciously intended as an attack on British credit, his conduct was much more intelligible than recent writers are inclined to allow. In seeking to verify this hypothesis I have followed two lines of argument. On the one hand, I have tried to show that well-informed Frenchmen at the time considered the situation of Great Britain such that a deliberate attack upon her credit might be expected to be successful. In this part of my essay I have relied greatly on D'Hauterive and Lasalle, to whose pamphlets my attention had been directed at the time the subject was suggested to me. In pursuing the second line of enquiry I have worked independently, as I could find nothing to support the only suggestion made to me, that Lasalle might have influenced the mind of Napoleon. I tried to discover what were Napoleon's personal views as to the basis of credit and whether this method of attack upon Great Britain was considered and adopted by him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.