[Footnote 151:  See the new facts published by Bailleu in the “Hohenzollern Jahrbuch” (1899).  The “rose” story is not in any German source.]

[Footnote 152:  In his “Memoirs” (vol. i., pt. iii.) Talleyrand says that he repeated this story several times at the Tuileries, until Napoleon rebuked him for it.]

[Footnote 153:  Before Tilsit Prussia had 9,744,000 subjects; afterwards only 4,938,000.  See her frontiers in map on p. 215.]

[Footnote 154:  The exact terms of the secret articles and of the secret treaty have only been known since 1890, when, owing to the labours of MM.  Fournier, Tatischeff, and Vandal, they saw the light.]

[Footnote 155:  Gower’s despatch of July 12th.  “F.O.,” Russia, No. 69.]

[Footnote 156:  De Clercq, “Traites,” vol. ii., pp. 223-225; Garden, vol. x., p. 233 and 277-290.  Our envoy, Jackson, reported from Memel on July 28th:  “Nothing can exceed the insolence and extortions of the French.  No sooner is one demand complied with than a fresh one is brought forward.”]

[Footnote 157:  That he seriously thought in November, 1807, of leaving to Prussia less than half of her already cramped territories, is clear from his instructions to Caulaincourt, his ambassador to the Czar:  “Is it not to Prussia’s interest for her to place herself, at once, and with entire resignation, among the inferior Powers?” A new treaty was to be framed, under the guise of interpreting that of Tilsit, Russia keeping the Danubian Provinces, and Napoleon more than half of Prussia (Vandal, vol. i., p. 509).]

[Footnote 158:  Lucchesini to Gentz in October, 1806, in Gentz’s “Ausgewaehlte Schriften,” vol. v., p. 257.]

[Footnote 159:  See Canning’s reply to Stahremberg’s Note, on April 25th, 1807, in the “Ann.  Reg.,” p. 724.]

[Footnote 160:  For Mackenzie’s report and other details gleaned from our archives, see my article “A British Agent at Tilsit,” in the “Eng.  Hist.  Rev.” of October, 1901.]

[Footnote 161:  James, “Naval History,” vol. iv., p. 408.]

[Footnote 162:  “F.O.,” Denmark, No. 53.]

[Footnote 163:  Garden, vol. x., p. 408.]

[Footnote 164:  “Corresp.,” No. 12962; see too No. 12936, ordering the 15,000 Spanish troops now serving him near Hamburg to form the nucleus of Bernadotte’s army of observation, which, “in case of events,” was to be strengthened by as many Dutch.]

[Footnote 165:  “F.O.,” Denmark, No. 53.  I published this Memorandum of Canning and other unpublished papers in an article, “Canning and Denmark,” in the “Eng.  Hist.  Rev.” of January, 1896.  The terms of the capitulation were, it seems, mainly decided on by Sir Arthur Wellesley, who wrote to Canning (September 8th):  “I might have carried our terms higher ... had not our troops been needed at home” ("Well.  Despatches,” vol. iii., p. 7).]

[Footnote 166:  Castlereagh’s “Corresp.,” vol. vi.  So too Gower reported from St. Petersburg on October 1st that public opinion was “decidedly averse to war with England, ... and it appears to me that the English name was scarcely ever more popular in Russia than at the present time.”]