[Footnote 53:  Napoleon to Talleyrand (December 14th, 1805):  “Sur de la Prusse, l’Autriche en passera par ou je voudrai.  Je ferai egalement prononcer la Prusse contre l’Angleterre.”]

[Footnote 54:  Report of M. Otto, August, 1799.]

[Footnote 55:  Czartoryski ("Mems.,” vol. ii., ch. xii.) states that England offered Holland to Prussia.  I find no proof of this in our Records.  The districts between Antwerp and Cleves are Belgian, not Dutch; and we never wavered in our support of the House of Orange.]

[Footnote 56:  These proposals, dated October 27th, 1805, were modified somewhat on the news of Mack’s disaster and the Treaty of Potsdam.  Hardenberg assured Harrowby (November 24th) that, despite England’s liberal pecuniary help, Frederick William felt great difficulty in assenting to the proposed territorial arrangements ("F.O.,” Prussia, No. 70).]

[Footnote 57:  Hardenberg’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii., pp. 377, 382.]

[Footnote 58:  Ompteda, p. 188.  The army returned in February, 1806.]

[Footnote 59:  “F.O.,” Prussia, No. 70 (November 23rd).]

[Footnote 60:  “Diaries of Right Hon. G. Rose,” vol. ii., pp. 223-224.]

[Footnote 61:  Ib., pp. 233-283; Rosebery, “Life of Pitt,” p. 258.]

[Footnote 62:  Lord Malmesbury’s “Diary,” vol. iv., p. 114.]

[Footnote 63:  Letter of December 27th, 1805; Jackson, “Diaries,” vol. ii., p. 387.]

[Footnote 64:  Mollien, “Mems.,” vol. i. ad fin., and vol. ii., p. 80, for the budget of 1806; also, Fievee, “Mes Relations avec Bonaparte,” vol. ii., pp. 180-203.]

[Footnote 65:  The Court of Naples asserted that in the Convention with France its ambassador, the Comte de Gallo, exceeded his powers in promising neutrality.  See Lucchesini’s conversation with Gentz, quoted by Garden, “Traites,” vol. x., p. 129.]

[Footnote 66:  See my article in the “Eng.  Hist.  Rev.,” April, 1900.]

[Footnote 67:  Ducasse, “Les Rois Freres de Napoleon,” p. 11.]

[Footnote 68:  Letter of February 7th, 1806.  On the same day he blames Junot, then commander of Parma, for too great lenience to some rebels near that city.  The Italians were a false people, who only respected a strong Government.  Let him, then, burn two large villages so that no trace remained, shoot the priest of one village, and send three or four hundred of the guilty to the galleys.  “Trust my old experience of the Italians.”]

[Footnote 69:  For a list of the chief Napoleonic titles, see Appendix, ad fin.]

[Footnote 70:  January 2nd, 1802; so too Fievee, “Mes Relations avec Bonaparte,” vol. ii., p. 210, who notes that, by founding an order of nobility, Napoleon ended his own isolation and attached to his interests a powerful landed caste.]

[Footnote 71:  Hardenberg’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii., p. 390-394.]

[Footnote 72:  Hardenberg to Harrowby on January 7th, “Prussia,” No. 70.]