[Footnote 158:  Lucchesini to Gentz in October, 1806, in Gentz’s “Ausgewaehlte Schriften,” vol. v., p. 257.]

[Footnote 159:  See Canning’s reply to Stahremberg’s Note, on April 25th, 1807, in the “Ann.  Reg.,” p. 724.]

[Footnote 160:  For Mackenzie’s report and other details gleaned from our archives, see my article “A British Agent at Tilsit,” in the “Eng.  Hist.  Rev.” of October, 1901.]

[Footnote 161:  James, “Naval History,” vol. iv., p. 408.]

[Footnote 162:  “F.O.,” Denmark, No. 53.]

[Footnote 163:  Garden, vol. x., p. 408.]

[Footnote 164:  “Corresp.,” No. 12962; see too No. 12936, ordering the 15,000 Spanish troops now serving him near Hamburg to form the nucleus of Bernadotte’s army of observation, which, “in case of events,” was to be strengthened by as many Dutch.]

[Footnote 165:  “F.O.,” Denmark, No. 53.  I published this Memorandum of Canning and other unpublished papers in an article, “Canning and Denmark,” in the “Eng.  Hist.  Rev.” of January, 1896.  The terms of the capitulation were, it seems, mainly decided on by Sir Arthur Wellesley, who wrote to Canning (September 8th):  “I might have carried our terms higher ... had not our troops been needed at home” ("Well.  Despatches,” vol. iii., p. 7).]

[Footnote 166:  Castlereagh’s “Corresp.,” vol. vi.  So too Gower reported from St. Petersburg on October 1st that public opinion was “decidedly averse to war with England, ... and it appears to me that the English name was scarcely ever more popular in Russia than at the present time.”]

[Footnote 167:  Letters of July 19th and 29th.]

[Footnote 168:  The phrase is that of Viscount Strangford, our ambassador at Lisbon ("F.O.,” Portugal, No. 55).  So Baumgarten, “Geschichte Spaniens,” vol. i., p. 136.]

[Footnote 169:  Report of the Portuguese ambassador, Lourenco de Lima, dated August 7th, 1807, inclosed by Viscount Strangford ("F.O.,” Portugal, No. 55).]

[Footnote 170:  This statement as to the date of the summons to Portugal is false:  it was July 19th when he ordered it to be sent, that is, long before the Copenhagen news reached him.]

[Footnote 171:  “Corresp.,” No. 12839.]

[Footnote 172:  See Lady Blennerhasset’s “Talleyrand,” vol. ii., ch. xvi., for a discussion of Talleyrand’s share in the new policy.  This question, together with many others, cannot be solved, owing to Talleyrand’s destruction of most of his papers.  In June, 1806, he advised a partition of Portugal; and in the autumn he is said to have favoured the overthrow of the Spanish Bourbons.  But there must surely be some connection between Napoleon’s letter to him of July 19th, 1807, on Portuguese affairs and the resignation which he persistently offered on their return to Paris.  On August 10th he wrote to the Emperor that that letter would be the last act of his Ministry ("Lettres inedites de Tall.,” p. 476).  He was succeeded by Champagny.]