[Footnote 303:  “Castlereagh Letters,” 2nd series, vol. iv., p. 344.]

[Footnote 304:  Garden, vol. xiv., p. 356.  We also stipulated that Sweden should not import slaves into Guadeloupe, and should repress the slave trade.  When, at the Congress of Vienna, that island was given back to France, we paid Bernadotte a money indemnity.]

[Footnote 305:  “Lettres inedites de Napoleon,” June 18th, 1813.  See too that of July 16th, ibid.]

[Footnote 306:  Letters of F. Perthes.]

[Footnote 307:  Joseph to Marmont, July 21st, 1812.]

[Footnote 308:  “Mems. du Roi Joseph,” vols. viii. and ix.; Napier, book xix., ch. v.]

[Footnote 309:  “Memoires du Roi Joseph,” vol. ix., p. 195.]

[Footnote 310:  Napier and Alison say March 18th, which is refuted by the “Mems. du Roi Joseph,” vol. ix., p. 131.]

[Footnote 311:  Ibid., vol. ix., p. 464.]

[Footnote 312:  As a matter of fact he had 50,000 there for three months, and did not succeed.  See Clarke’s letter to Clausel, “Mems. du Roi Joseph,” vol. ix., p. 251.]

[Footnote 313:  Stanhope’s “Conversations with Wellington,” p. 20.]

[Footnote 314:  “Memoires du Roi Joseph,” vol. ix., p. 60.]

[Footnote 315:  Thiers, bk. xlix.; “Nap.  Corresp.,” No. 20019; Baumgarten vol i., p. 577.]

[Footnote 316:  “Memoires du Roi Joseph,” vol. ix., pp. 284, 294.  Joseph’s first order to Clausel was sent under protection of an escort of 1,500 men.]

[Footnote 317:  See Lord Melville’s complaint as to Wellington’s unreasonable charges on this head in the “Letters of Sir B. Martin” ("Navy Records,” 1898).]

[Footnote 318:  Miot de Melito, vol. ii., ch. xviii.]

[Footnote 319:  Clausel afterwards complained that if he had received any order to that effect he could have pushed on so as to be at Vittoria ("Mems. du Roi Joseph,” vol. ix., p. 454).  The muster-rolls of the French were lost at Vittoria.  Napier puts their force at 70,000; Thiers at 54,000; Jourdan at 50,000.]

[Footnote 320:  Wellington’s official account of the fight states that the French got away only two of their cannon; and Simmons, “A British Rifleman,” asserts that the last of these was taken near Pamplona on the 24th.  Wellington generously assigned much credit to the Spanish troops—­far more than Napier will allow.]

[Footnote 321:  Ducasse, “Les rois, freres de Napoleon.”]

[Footnote 322:  “Lettres inedites de Napoleon,” July 1st, 3rd, 15th, and 20th.]

[Footnote 323:  Stadion to Metternich, May 30th, June 2nd and 8th; in Luckwaldt, p. 382.]

[Footnote 324:  Cathcart’s “most secret” despatch of June 4/16* from Reichenbach.  Just a month earlier he reported that the Czar’s proposals to Austria included all these terms in an absolute form, and also the separation of Holland from France, the restoration of the Bourbons to Spain, and “L’Italie libre dans toutes ses parties du Gouvernement et de l’influence de la France.”  Such were also Metternich’s private wishes, with the frontier of the Oglio on the S.W. for Austria.  See Oncken, vol. ii., p. 644.  The official terms were in part due to the direct influence of the Emperor Francis.]