[Footnote 144:  Tatischeff, “Alexandre I et Napoleon” (pp. 144-148).]

[Footnote 145:  Reports of Savary and Lesseps, quoted by Vandal, op. cit., p. 61; “Corresp.,” No. 12825.]

[Footnote 146:  Vandal, p. 73, says that the news reached Napoleon at a review when Alexander was by his side.  If so, the occasion was carefully selected with a view to effect; for the news reached him on, or before, June 24th (see “Corresp.,” No. 12819).  Gower states that the news reached Tilsit as early as the 15th; and Hardenberg secretly proposed a policy of partition of Turkey on June 23rd ("Mems.,” vol. iii., p. 463).  Hardenberg resigned office on July 4th, as Napoleon refused to treat through him.]

[Footnote 147:  “Corresp.,” No. 12862, letter of July 6th.]

[Footnote 148:  Tatischeff (pp. 146-148 and 163-168) proves from the Russian archives that these schemes were Alexander’s, and were in the main opposed by Napoleon.  This disproves Vandal’s assertion (p. 101) that Napoleon pressed Alexander to take the Memel and Polish districts.]

[Footnote 149:  “Erinnerungen der Graefin von Voss.”]

[Footnote 150:  Probably this refers not to the restitution of Silesia, which he politely offered to her (though he had previously granted it on the Czar’s request), but to Madgeburg and its environs west of the Elbe.  On July 7th he said to Goltz, the Prussian negotiator, “I am sorry if the Queen took as positive assurances the phrases de politesse that one speaks to ladies” (Hardenberg’s “Mems.,” vol. iii., p. 512).]

[Footnote 151:  See the new facts published by Bailleu in the “Hohenzollern Jahrbuch” (1899).  The “rose” story is not in any German source.]

[Footnote 152:  In his “Memoirs” (vol. i., pt. iii.) Talleyrand says that he repeated this story several times at the Tuileries, until Napoleon rebuked him for it.]

[Footnote 153:  Before Tilsit Prussia had 9,744,000 subjects; afterwards only 4,938,000.  See her frontiers in map on p. 215.]

[Footnote 154:  The exact terms of the secret articles and of the secret treaty have only been known since 1890, when, owing to the labours of MM.  Fournier, Tatischeff, and Vandal, they saw the light.]

[Footnote 155:  Gower’s despatch of July 12th.  “F.O.,” Russia, No. 69.]

[Footnote 156:  De Clercq, “Traites,” vol. ii., pp. 223-225; Garden, vol. x., p. 233 and 277-290.  Our envoy, Jackson, reported from Memel on July 28th:  “Nothing can exceed the insolence and extortions of the French.  No sooner is one demand complied with than a fresh one is brought forward.”]

[Footnote 157:  That he seriously thought in November, 1807, of leaving to Prussia less than half of her already cramped territories, is clear from his instructions to Caulaincourt, his ambassador to the Czar:  “Is it not to Prussia’s interest for her to place herself, at once, and with entire resignation, among the inferior Powers?” A new treaty was to be framed, under the guise of interpreting that of Tilsit, Russia keeping the Danubian Provinces, and Napoleon more than half of Prussia (Vandal, vol. i., p. 509).]