[Footnote 286:  Arndt, “Wanderungen”; Steffens, “Was ich erlebte.”]

[Footnote 287:  At this time she had only 61,500 men ready for the fighting line; but she had 28,000 in garrison and 32,000 in Pomerania and Prussia (Proper), according to Scharnhorst’s report contained in “F.O.,” Russia, No. 85.]

[Footnote 288:  Letters of March 2nd and 11th.]

[Footnote 289:  Metternich’s “Memoirs,” vol. i., p. 159; Luckwaldt, op. cit., ch. vi.]

[Footnote 290:  See the whole note in Luckwaldt, Append.  No. 4.]

[Footnote 291:  Oncken, op. cit., vol. ii., p. 205.  So too Metternich’s letter to Nesselrode of April 21st ("Memoirs,” vol. i., p. 405, Eng. ed.):  “I beg of you to continue to confide in me.  If Napoleon will be foolish enough to fight, let us endeavour not to meet with a reverse, which I feel to be only too possible.  One battle lost for Napoleon, and all Germany will be under arms.”]

[Footnote 292:  “F.O.,” Austria, No. 105.  Doubtless, as Oncken has pointed out with much acerbity, Castlereagh’s knowledge that Austria would suggest the modification of our maritime claims contributed to his refusal to consider her proposal for a general peace:  but I am convinced, from the tone of our records, that his chief motive was his experience of Napoleon’s intractability and a sense of loyalty to our Spanish allies:  we were also pledged to help Sweden and Russia.]

[Footnote 293:  Letters of April 24th.]

[Footnote 294:  Napoleon’s troops in Thorn surrendered on April 17th; those in Spandau on April 24th (Fain, “Manuscrit de 1813,” vol. ii., ch. i.).]

[Footnote 295:  Oncken, vol. ii., p. 272.]

[Footnote 296:  Cathcart’s report in “F.O.,” Russia, No. 85.  Mueffling ("Aus meinem Leben”) regards the delay in the arrival of Miloradovitch, and the preparations for defence which the French had had time to make at Gross Goerschen, as the causes of the allies’ failure.  The chief victim on the French side was Bessieres, commander of the Guard.]

[Footnote 297:  “Corresp.,” Nos. 20017-20031.  For his interview with Bubna, see Luckwaldt, p. 257.]

[Footnote 298:  Bernhardi’s “Toll,” vol. iii., pp. 490-492.  Marmont gives the French 150,000; Thiers says 160,000.]

[Footnote 299:  In his bulletin Napoleon admitted having lost 11,000 to 12,000 killed and wounded in the two days at Bautzen; his actual losses were probably over 20,000.  He described the allies as having 150,000 to 160,000 men, nearly double their actual numbers.]

[Footnote 300:  Mueffling, “Aus meinem Leben.”]

[Footnote 301:  “Lettres inedites.”  So too his letters to Eugene of June 11th and July 1st; and of June 11th, 17th, July 6th and 29th, to Augereau, who was to threaten Austria from Bavaria.]

[Footnote 302:  See his conversation with our envoy, Thornton, reported by the latter in the “Castlereagh Letters,” 2nd series, vol. iv., p. 314.]