[Footnote 47:  Metternich, “Mems.,” vol. i., ch. iii.]

[Footnote 48:  Hanover, along with a few districts of Bavarian Franconia, would bring to Prussia a gain of 989,000 inhabitants, while she would lose only 375,000.  Neufchatel had offered itself to Frederick I. of Prussia in 1688, and its proposed barter to France troubled Hardenberg ("Mems.,” vol. ii., p. 421).]

[Footnote 49:  Gower to Lord Harrowby from Olmuetz, November 25th, in “F.O.  Records,” Russia, No. 59.]

[Footnote 50:  “Lettres inedites de Tall.,” p. 216.]

[Footnote 51:  Printed for the first time in full in “Lettres inedites de Tall.,” pp. 156-174.  On December 5th Talleyrand again begged Napoleon to strengthen Austria as “a needful bulwark against the barbarians, the Russians.”]

[Footnote 52:  I dissent, though with much diffidence, from M. Vandal ("Napoleon et Alexandre,” vol. i., p. 9) in regard to Talleyrand’s proposal.]

[Footnote 53:  Napoleon to Talleyrand (December 14th, 1805):  “Sur de la Prusse, l’Autriche en passera par ou je voudrai.  Je ferai egalement prononcer la Prusse contre l’Angleterre.”]

[Footnote 54:  Report of M. Otto, August, 1799.]

[Footnote 55:  Czartoryski ("Mems.,” vol. ii., ch. xii.) states that England offered Holland to Prussia.  I find no proof of this in our Records.  The districts between Antwerp and Cleves are Belgian, not Dutch; and we never wavered in our support of the House of Orange.]

[Footnote 56:  These proposals, dated October 27th, 1805, were modified somewhat on the news of Mack’s disaster and the Treaty of Potsdam.  Hardenberg assured Harrowby (November 24th) that, despite England’s liberal pecuniary help, Frederick William felt great difficulty in assenting to the proposed territorial arrangements ("F.O.,” Prussia, No. 70).]

[Footnote 57:  Hardenberg’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii., pp. 377, 382.]

[Footnote 58:  Ompteda, p. 188.  The army returned in February, 1806.]

[Footnote 59:  “F.O.,” Prussia, No. 70 (November 23rd).]

[Footnote 60:  “Diaries of Right Hon. G. Rose,” vol. ii., pp. 223-224.]

[Footnote 61:  Ib., pp. 233-283; Rosebery, “Life of Pitt,” p. 258.]

[Footnote 62:  Lord Malmesbury’s “Diary,” vol. iv., p. 114.]

[Footnote 63:  Letter of December 27th, 1805; Jackson, “Diaries,” vol. ii., p. 387.]

[Footnote 64:  Mollien, “Mems.,” vol. i. ad fin., and vol. ii., p. 80, for the budget of 1806; also, Fievee, “Mes Relations avec Bonaparte,” vol. ii., pp. 180-203.]

[Footnote 65:  The Court of Naples asserted that in the Convention with France its ambassador, the Comte de Gallo, exceeded his powers in promising neutrality.  See Lucchesini’s conversation with Gentz, quoted by Garden, “Traites,” vol. x., p. 129.]

[Footnote 66:  See my article in the “Eng.  Hist.  Rev.,” April, 1900.]

[Footnote 67:  Ducasse, “Les Rois Freres de Napoleon,” p. 11.]