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"The peace of Amiens had always been regarded from the side of England as an armed truce: on the side of Napoleon it had a very different character. … A careful reader must admit that we were guilty of a breach of faith in not surrendering Malta. The promise of its surrender was the principal article of the treaty."

England and Napoleon in 1803.

(Edited for the R. Hist. S. by Oscar Browning, 1887.)