[Footnote 68:  Letter of February 7th, 1806.  On the same day he blames Junot, then commander of Parma, for too great lenience to some rebels near that city.  The Italians were a false people, who only respected a strong Government.  Let him, then, burn two large villages so that no trace remained, shoot the priest of one village, and send three or four hundred of the guilty to the galleys.  “Trust my old experience of the Italians.”]

[Footnote 69:  For a list of the chief Napoleonic titles, see Appendix, ad fin.]

[Footnote 70:  January 2nd, 1802; so too Fievee, “Mes Relations avec Bonaparte,” vol. ii., p. 210, who notes that, by founding an order of nobility, Napoleon ended his own isolation and attached to his interests a powerful landed caste.]

[Footnote 71:  Hardenberg’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii., p. 390-394.]

[Footnote 72:  Hardenberg to Harrowby on January 7th, “Prussia,” No. 70.]

[Footnote 73:  I have not found a copy of this project; but in “Prussia,” No. 70 (forwarded by Jackson on January 27th, 1806), there is a detailed “Memoire explicatif,” whence I extract these details, as yet unpublished, I believe.  Neither Hardenberg, Garden, Jackson, nor Paget mentions them.]

[Footnote 74:  Records, “Prussia,” No. 70, dated February 21st.]

[Footnote 75:  Hardenberg, “Mems.,” vol. ii., pp. 463-469; “Nap.  Corresp.,” No. 9742, for Napoleon’s thoughts as to peace, when he heard of Fox being our Foreign Minister.]

[Footnote 76:  See “Nap.  Corresp.,” Nos. 9742, 9773, 9777, for his views as to the weakness of England and Prussia.  This treaty of February 15th, 1806, confirmed the cession of Neufchatel and Cleves to France, and of Ansbach to Bavaria; but did not cede any Franconian districts to Prussia’s Baireuth lands.  See Hardenberg, “Memoires,” vol. ii., p. 483, for the text of the treaty.]

[Footnote 77:  The strange perversity of Haugwitz is nowhere more shown than in his self-congratulation at the omission of the adjectives offensive et defensive from the new treaty of alliance between France and Prussia (Hardenberg, vol. ii., p. 481).  Napoleon was now not pledged to help Prussia in the war which George III. declared against her on April 20th.]

[Footnote 78:  It is noteworthy that in all the negotiations that followed, Napoleon never raised any question about our exacting maritime code, which proves how hollow were his diatribes against the tyrant of the seas at other times.]

[Footnote 79:  Despatch of April 20th, 1806, in Papers presented to Parliament on December 22nd, 1806.]

[Footnote 80:  Czartoryski’s “Mems.,” vol. ii., ch. xiii.]

[Footnote 81:  “I do not intend the Court of Rome to mix any more in politics” (Nap. to the Pope, February 13th, 1806).]