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Napoleon. "Mr. Udy [a British Consul at Leghorn] knows Buonoparte personally. . . . He is a man of great talents, indefatigable in pursuing his plans, thoughtful, and deliberative, but having once resolved Lightening is not quicker than He is in execution and humanity never stands in his way. . . . When thoughtful, Buonoparte has a habit of squeezing his cheek with his right hand or pulling his mouth, while forming his resolutions. . . . G. Smith has been in Paris 7 months, and is returned extremely disgusted with the state of Society—No morals.—no integrity. Characters of the lowest kind abounding in wealth which they expend in a licentious way. . . . Buonoparte is very unpopular, and not respected, and his abilities not rated high. ... I [Farington] thought his general appearance better than I expected. . . . He has an intent and searching look, but his expression is confident. His complexion is not as I have heard it described waxy. . . . His person is slim, & I should judge him to be abt. 5 feet 6 Inches high. He was dressed in Blue, much more plain than His officers, which gave him additional consequence. . . . The ease with which people of all sorts approached him sufficiently shew'd that He had no personal apprehension, but I have much stronger proofs that He does not live in a state of fear of assassination. ... I should . . . say that his manner expressed indifference, and His actions corresponded with it. He did not in the least seem to study state and effect. ... I notice he picked his nose very much,—sometimes took Snuff, and would take off his hat and wipe his forehead in a careless manner . . . passed me so close I could have touched him . . . which gave me an opportunity to observe the colour of his eyes which are . . . more of a blue grey. ... I thought there was something rather feverish than piercing in the expression . . . but his general aspect was milder than I had before thought it. . . . He had no eyebrows, or eyelash to give strong expression. . . .
William Pitt. "... Mr. Pitts Hatters Bill was £600 (after Pitt's death on January 23, 1806, £40,000 was voted to pay his debts). . . . Mr. Pitt breakfast usually at nine oClock that is the breakfast is set at that hour, but that Mr. Pitt is frequently engaged so intently in reading or writing as to entirely neglect it and goes away perhaps at 12 oClock without having eat anything. . . . Lord Mulgrave wrote to Sir George (Beaumont) that He ought to have given anything to have been in Parliament to have heard Pitts speech in defence of his having sent £1,200,000 to the Emperor (of Austria) witht. the consent of Parliament,—to have heard him wrote his Lordship 'defend his head with his brains' . . . In debate on Monday night, Mr. Pitt shone with extraordinary lustre. His speech affected the House so much that after He had finished there was a Hear, Hear, 3 times repeated, which had the effect of three cheers."