Show HOW NAPOLEON RAISED MONEY Napoleon had the lavish hand of a parvenu but his beneficiaries were not grateful and with everincreasing insolence in-solence were always craving more The system of private confiscations or forced contributions from individuals had already attained vast dimensions During the winter of 180910 it was extended ex-tended and regulated the sums wrung from German princes and Spanish grandees from English merchants and the Italian clergy were not entirely exhausted the remainder together with what was accepted from timorous tim-orous politicians crafty ecclesiastics sly contractors and unprincipled financiers finan-ciers was now erected into the dignity of the emperors extraordinary domain do-main The term army chest had been devised for times of higher public pub-lic morality it was now discarded Confiscated palaces forests lands fisheries moneys from the sale of American ships aJl were now the emperors em-perors private property Professor Sloanes Life of Napoleon in the June Century S k dlii |