[Footnote 192:  “Corresp.,” No. 13696.  A careful comparison of this laboured, halting effusion, with the curt military syle*style of the genuine letters—­and especially with Nos. 93, 94, and 100 of the “New Letters”—­must demonstrate its non-authenticity.  Thiers’ argument to the contrary effect is rambling and weak.  Count Murat in his recent monograph on his father pronounces the letter a fabrication of St. Helena or later.  It was first published in the “Memorial de St. Helene,” an untrustworthy compilation made by Las Cases after Napoleon’s death from notes taken at St. Helena.]

[Footnote 193:  Napoleon had at first intended the Spanish crown for Louis, to whom he wrote on March 27th:  “The climate of Holland does not suit you.  Besides, Holland can never rise from her ruins.”  Louis declined, on the ground that his call to Holland had been from heaven, and not from Napoleon!]

[Footnote 194:  Memoirs of Thiebault and De Broglie; so, too, De Rocca, “La Guerre en Espagne.”]

[Footnote 195:  See the letter of an Englishman from Buenos Ayres of September 27th, 1809, in “Cobbett’s Register” for 1810 (p. 256), stating that the new popular Government there was driven by want of funds, “not from their good wishes to England,” to open their ports to all foreign commerce on moderate duties.]

[Footnote 196:  Vandal, “Napoleon et Alexandre,” ch. vii.  It is not published in the “Correspondence” or in the “New Letters.”]

[Footnote 197:  Vandal, “Napoleon et Alexandre,” vol. i., ch. iv., and App.  II.]

[Footnote 198:  In the conversations which Metternich had with Napoleon and Talleyrand on and after January 22nd, 1808, he was convinced that the French Emperor intended to partition Turkey as soon as it suited him to do so, which would be after he had subjected Spain.  Napoleon said to him:  “When the Russians are at Constantinople you will need France to help you against them.”—­“Metternich Memoirs,” vol. ii., p. 188.]

[Footnote 199:  So Soult told Lord Holland ("Foreign Reminiscences,” p. 171).]

[Footnote 200:  Vandal, vol. i., p. 384.]

[Footnote 201:  Metternich, “Mems.,” vol. ii. p. 298 (Eng. edit.).]

[Footnote 202:  I think that Beer (pp. 330-340) errs somewhat in ranking Talleyrand’s work at Erfurt at that statesman’s own very high valuation, which he enhanced in later years:  see Greville’s “Mems.,” Second Part, vol. ii., p. 193.]

[Footnote 203:  Vandal, vol. i., p. 307.]

[Footnote 204:  Sklower, “L’Entrevue de Napoleon avec Goethe”; Mrs. Austin’s “Germany from 1760 to 1814”; Oncken, bk. vii., ch. i.  For Napoleon’s dispute with Wieland about Tacitus see Talleyrand, “Mems.,” vol. i., pt. 5.  When the Emperors’ carriages were ready for departure, Talleyrand whispered to Alexander:  “Ah! si Votre Majeste pouvait se tromper de voiture.”]

[Footnote 205:  “F.O.,” Russia, No. 74, despatch of December 9th, 1808.  On January 14th, 1809, Canning signed a treaty of alliance with the Spanish people, both sides agreeing never to make peace with Napoleon except by common consent.  It was signed when the Spanish cause seemed desperate; but it was religiously observed.]