[Footnote 118:  Hausser, vol. iii., p. 61 (4th edit.).  The Saxon federal contingent was fixed at 20,000 men.]

[Footnote 119:  Papers presented to Parliament, December 22nd, 1806.]

[Footnote 120:  After the interview of November 28th, 1801, Cornwallis reports that Napoleon “expressed a wish that we could agree to remove disaffected persons from either country ... and declared his willingness to send away United Irishmen” ("F.O.  Records,” No. 615).]

[Footnote 121:  Czartoryski, “Mems.,” vol. ii., ch. xv.]

[Footnote 122:  In our “F.O.  Records,” Prussia, No. 74, is a report of Napoleon’s reply to a deputation at Warsaw (January, 1807):  “I warn you that neither I nor any French prince cares for your Polish throne:  I have crowns to give and don’t know what to do with them.  You must first of all think of giving bread to my soldiers—­’Bread, bread, bread.’ ...  I cannot support my troops in this country, where there is no one besides nobles and miserable peasants.  Where are your great families?  They are all sold to Russia.  It is Czartoryski who wrote to Kosciusko not to come back to Poland.”  And when a Galician deputy asked him of the fate of his province, he turned on him:  “Do you think that I will draw on myself new foes for one province.”  Nevertheless, the enthusiasm of the Poles was not wholly chilled.  Their contingents did good service for him.  Somewhat later, female devotion brought a beautiful young Polish lady to act as his mistress, primarily with the hope of helping on the liberation of her land, and then as a willing captive to the charm which he exerted on all who approached him.  Their son was Count Walewska]

[Footnote 123:  Marbot, ch. xxviii.]

[Footnote 124:  Lettow-Vorbeck estimates the French loss at more than 24,000; that of the Russians as still heavier, but largely owing to the bad commissariat and wholesale straggling.  On this see Sir R. Wilson’s “Campaign in Poland,” ch. i.]

[Footnote 125:  Napoleon on February 13th charged Bertrand to offer verbally, but not in writing, to the King of Prussia a separate peace, without respect to the Czar.  Frederick William was to be restored to his States east of the Elbe.  He rejected the offer, which would have broken his engagements to the Czar.  Napoleon repeated the offer on February 20th, which shows that, at this crisis, he did wish for peace with Prussia.  See “Nap.  Corresp.,” No. 11810; and Hausser, vol. iii., p. 74.]

[Footnote 126:  “I have been repeatedly pressed by the Prussian and Russian Governments,” wrote Lord Hutchinson, our envoy at Memel, March 9th, 1807, “on the subject of a diversion to be made by British troops against Mortier....  Stettin is a large place with a small garrison and in a bad state of defence” ("F.O.,” Prussia, No. 74). in 1805 Pitt promised to send a British force to Stralsund (see p. 17).]