[Footnote 234:  So Mollien, vol. iii., p. 135:  “One knows that his powerful imagination was fertile in illusions:  as soon as they had seduced him, he sought with a kind of good faith to enhance their prestige, and he succeeded easily in persuading many others of what he had convinced himself.  He braved business difficulties as he braved dangers in war.”] [Footnote 235:  Miot de Melito, vol. ii., ch. xv.  For some favourable symptoms in French industry, see Lumbroso, pp. 165-226, and Chaptal, p. 287.  They have been credited to the Continental System; but surely they resulted from the internal free trade and intelligent administration which France had enjoyed since the Revolution.]

[Footnote 236:  “Nap.  Corresp.,” May 8th, 1811.]

[Footnote 237:  Goethe published the first part of “Faust,” in full, early in 1808.]

[Footnote 238:  Baur, “Stein und Perthes,” p. 85.]

[Footnote 239:  Lavalette, “Mems.,” ch. xxv.]

[Footnote 240:  Letters of October 10th and 13th, 1810, and January 1st, 1811.]

[Footnote 241:  Letter of September 17th, 1810.]

[Footnote 242:  Letter of March 8th, 1811.  For a fuller treatment of the commercial struggle between Great Britain and Napoleon see my articles, “Napoleon and British Commerce” and “Britain’s Food Supply during the French War,” in a volume entitled “Napoleonic Studies” (George Bell and Sons, 1904).]

[Footnote 243:  Czartoryski, “Mems.,” vol. ii., ch. xvii.  At this time he was taken back to the Czar’s favour, and was bidden to hope for the re-establishment of Poland by the Czar as soon as Napoleon made a blunder.]

[Footnote 244:  Tatischeff, p. 526; Vandal, vol. ii., ch. vii.]

[Footnote 245:  “Corresp.,” No. 16178; Vandal, vol. ii., ch. vii.  The expose of December 1st, 1809, had affirmed that Napoleon did not intend to re-establish Poland.  But this did not satisfy Alexander.]

[Footnote 246:  Letters of October 23rd and December 2nd, 1810.]

[Footnote 247:  Vandal, vol. ii., p. 529.]

[Footnote 248:  Tatischeff, p. 555.]

[Footnote 249:  Vandal, vol. ii., p. 535, admits that we had no hand in it.  But the Czar naturally became more favourable to us, and at the close of 1811 secretly gave entry to our goods.]

[Footnote 250:  Quoted by Garden, vol. xiii., p. 171.]

[Footnote 251:  Bernhardi’s “Denkwuerdigkeiten des Grafen von Toll,” vol. i. p. 223.]

[Footnote 252:  Czartoryski, vol. ii., ch. xvii.  At Dresden, in May, 1812, Napoleon admitted to De Pradt, his envoy at Warsaw that Russia’s lapse from the Continental System was the chief cause of war; “Without Russia, the Continental System is absurdity.”]