[Footnote 13:  This refusal has been severely criticised.  But the knowledge of the British Government that Napoleon was still persevering with his schemes against Turkey, and that the Russians themselves, from their station at Corfu, were working to gain a foothold on the Albanian coast, surely prescribed caution ("F.O.,” Russia, Nos. 55 and 56, despatches of June 26th and October 10th, 1804).  It was further known that the Austrian Government had proposed to the Czar plans that were hostile to Turkey, and were not decisively rejected at St. Petersburg; and it is clear from the notes left by Czartoryski that the prospect of gaining Corfu, Moldavia, parts of Albania, and the precious prize of Constantinople was kept in view.  Pitt agreed to restore the conquests made from France (Despatch of April 22nd).]

[Footnote 14:  Garden, “Traites,” vol. viii., pp. 328-333.  It is clear that Gustavus IV. was the ruler who insisted on making the restoration of the Bourbons the chief aim of the Third Coalition.  In our “F.O.  Records” (Sweden, No. 177) is an account (August 20th, 1804) of a conversation of Lord Harrowby with the Swedish ambassador, who stated that such a declaration would “palsy the arms of France.”  Our Foreign Minister replied that it would “much more certainly palsy the arms of England:  that we made war because France was become too powerful for the peace of Europe.”]

[Footnote 15:  “Corresp.,” No. 8329.]

[Footnote 16:  Bailleu, “Preussen und Frankreich,” vol. ii., p. 354.]

[Footnote 17:  Thiers (bk. xxi.) gives the whole text.]

[Footnote 18:  The annexation of the Ligurian or Genoese Republic took place on June 4th, the way having been prepared there by Napoleon’s former patron, Salicetti, who liberally dispensed bribes.  A little later the Republic of Lucca was bestowed on Elisa Bonaparte and her spouse, now named Prince Bacciochi.  Parma, hitherto administered by a French governor, was incorporated in the French Empire about the same time.]

[Footnote 19:  Paget to Lord Mulgrave (March 19th, 1805).]

[Footnote 20:  Beer, “Zehn Jahre oesterreich.  Politik (1801-1810).”  The notes of Novossiltzoff and Hardenberg are printed in Sir G. Jackson’s “Diaries,” vol i., App.]

[Footnote 21:  See Bignon, vol. iv., pp. 271 and 334.  Probably Napoleon knew through Laforest and Talleyrand that Russia had recently urged that George III. should offer Hanover to Prussia.  Pitt rejected the proposal.  Prussia paid more heed to the offer of Hanover from Napoleon than to the suggestions of Czartoryski that she might receive it from its rightful owner, George III.  Yet Duroc did not succeed in gaining more from Frederick William than the promise of his neutrality (see Garden, “Traites,” vol. viii., pp. 339-346).  Sweden was not a member of the Coalition, but made treaties with Russia and England.