[Footnote 35:  See these terms compared with the Anglo-Russian treaty of April 11th, 1805, in the Appendix of Dr. Hansing’s “Hardenberg und die dritte Coalition” (Berlin, 1899).]

[Footnote 36:  Haeusser, vol. ii., p. 617 (4th. edit.); Lettow-Vorbeck, “Der Krieg von 1806-1807,” vol. i., ad init.]

[Footnote 37:  For the much more venial stratagem which Kutusoff played on Murat at Hollabrunn, see Thiers, bk. xxiii.]

[Footnote 38:  Lord Harrowby, then on a special mission to Berlin, reports (November 24th) that this appeal of the Czar had been “coolly received,” and no Prussian troops would enter Bohemia until it was known how Prussia’s envoy to Napoleon, Count Haugwitz, had been received.]

[Footnote 39:  Thiers says December 1st, which is corrected by Napoleon’s letter of November 30th to Talleyrand.]

[Footnote 40:  Thiebault, vol. ii., ch. viii.; Segur, ch. xviii.; York von Wartenburg, “Nap. als Feldherr,” vol. i., p. 230.]

[Footnote 41:  Davoust’s reports of December 2nd and 5th in his “Corresp.”]

[Footnote 42:  Segur, Thiebault, and Lejeune all state that Napoleon in the previous advance northwards had foretold that a great battle would soon be fought opposite Austerlitz, and explained how he would fight it.]

[Footnote 43:  Thiebault wrongly attributes this succour to Lannes:  for that Marshal, who had just insulted and challenged Soult, Thiebault had a manifest partiality.  Savary, though hostile to Bernadotte, gives him bare justice on this move.]

[Footnote 44:  Harrowby evidently thought that Prussia’s conduct would depend on events.  Just before the news of Austerlitz arrived, he wrote to Downing Street:  “The eyes of this Government are turned almost exclusively on Moravia.  It is there the fate of this negotiation must be decided.”  Yet he reports that 192,000 Prussians are under arms ("F.O.,” Prussia, No. 70).]

[Footnote 45:  Jackson, “Diaries,” vol. i., p. 137.]

[Footnote 46:  “Lettres inedites de Talleyrand,” pp. 205-208.]

[Footnote 47:  Metternich, “Mems.,” vol. i., ch. iii.]

[Footnote 48:  Hanover, along with a few districts of Bavarian Franconia, would bring to Prussia a gain of 989,000 inhabitants, while she would lose only 375,000.  Neufchatel had offered itself to Frederick I. of Prussia in 1688, and its proposed barter to France troubled Hardenberg ("Mems.,” vol. ii., p. 421).]

[Footnote 49:  Gower to Lord Harrowby from Olmuetz, November 25th, in “F.O.  Records,” Russia, No. 59.]

[Footnote 50:  “Lettres inedites de Tall.,” p. 216.]

[Footnote 51:  Printed for the first time in full in “Lettres inedites de Tall.,” pp. 156-174.  On December 5th Talleyrand again begged Napoleon to strengthen Austria as “a needful bulwark against the barbarians, the Russians.”]

[Footnote 52:  I dissent, though with much diffidence, from M. Vandal ("Napoleon et Alexandre,” vol. i., p. 9) in regard to Talleyrand’s proposal.]