[Footnote 82:  I translate literally these N.B.’s as pasted in at the end of Yarmouth’s Memoir of July 8th ("France,” No. 73).  As Oubril’s instructions have never, I believe, been published, the passage given above is somewhat important as proving how completely he exceeded his powers in bartering away Sicily.  The text of the Oubril Treaty is given by De Clercq, vol. ii., p. 180.  The secret articles required Russia to help France in inducing the Court of Madrid to cede the Balearic Isles to the Prince Royal of Naples; the dethroned King and Queen were not to reside there, and Russia was to recognize Joseph Bonaparte as King of the Two Sicilies.]

[Footnote 83:  In conversing with our ambassador, Mr. Stuart, Baron Budberg excused Oubril’s conduct on the ground of his nervousness under the threats of the French plenipotentiary, General Clarke, who scarcely let him speak, and darkly hinted at many other changes that must ensue if Russia did not make peace; Switzerland was to be annexed, Germany overrun, and Turkey partitioned.  That Clarke was a master in diplomatic hectoring is well known; but, from private inquiries, Stuart discovered that the Czar, in his private conference with Oubril, seemed more inclined towards peace than Czartoryski:  when therefore the latter resigned, Oubril might well give way before Clarke’s bluster. (Stuart’s Despatch of August 9th, 1806, F.O., Russia, No. 63; also see Czartoryski’s “Mems.,” vol. ii., ch. xiv.; and Martens, “Traites,” Suppl. vol. iv.)]

[Footnote 84:  “Memoirs of Karl Heinrich, Knight of Lang.”]

[Footnote 85:  Garden, vol. ix., pp. 157, 189, 255.]

[Footnote 86:  “Corresp.,” Nos. 10522 and 10544.  For a French account see the “Mems.” of Baron Desvernois, p. 288.]

[Footnote 87:  “F.O.  Records,” Naples, No. 73.]

[Footnote 88:  This was on Napoleon’s advice.  He wrote to Talleyrand from Rambouillet on August 18th, to give as an excuse for the delay, “The Emperor is hunting and will not be back before the end of the week.”]

[Footnote 89:  So too Napoleon said at St. Helena to Las Cases:  “Fox’s death was one of the fatalities of my career.”]

[Footnote 90:  Despatches of September 26th and October 6th.]

[Footnote 91:  Bailleu, “Frankreich und Preussen,” Introd.]

[Footnote 92:  Decree of July 26th.]

[Footnote 93:  See “Corresp.”  No. 10604, note; also Talleyrand’s letter of August 4th ("Lettres inedites,” p. 245), showing the indemnities that might be offered to Prussia after the loss of Hanover:  they included, of course, little States, Anhalt, Lippe, Waldeck, etc.]

[Footnote 94:  Gentz, “Ausgew.  Schriften,” vol. v., p. 252.  Conversation with Lucchesini.]

[Footnote 95:  “Corresp.,” Nos. 10575, 10587, 10633.]

[Footnote 96:  “Mems.,” vol. iii., pp. 115, et seq. The Prusso-Russian convention of July, by which these Powers mutually guaranteed the integrity of their States, was mainly the work of Hardenberg.]