his Minister at Vienna, in which he informs him that he hopes to be at Naples on the 4th of this month:  that he burns with desire to revenge himself of [sic] all the injuries he has received from Bonaparte, and to connect himself with the cause of the allies in contending for a just and stable peace.  He proposes to declare war on the instant of his arrival.”  Again, on December 19th, Aberdeen writes:  “You may consider the affair of Murat as settled....  It will probably end in Austria agreeing to his having a change of frontier on the Papal territory, just enough to satisfy his vanity and enable him to show something to his people.  I doubt much if it will be possible, with the claims of Sicily, Sardinia, and Austria herself in the north of Italy, to restore to him the three Legations:  but something adequate must be done” ("Austria,” No. 102).  The disputes between Murat and Napoleon will be cleared up in Baron Lumbroso’s forthcoming work, “Murat.”  Meanwhile see Bignon, vol. xiii., pp. 181 et seq.; Desvernois, “Mems.,” ch. xx.; and Chaptal (p. 305), for Fouche’s treacherous advice to Murat.]

[Footnote 387:  Lady Burghersh’s “Journal,” p. 182.]

[Footnote 388:  Fain, “Manuscrit de 1814,” pp. 48-63.  Ernouf, “Vie de Maret,” p. 606, states that Napoleon touched up Maret’s note; the sentence quoted above is doubtless the Emperor’s.  The same author proves that Maret’s advice had always been more pacific than was supposed, and that now, in his old position of Secretary of State, he gave Caulaincourt valuable help during the negotiations at Chatillon.]

[Footnote 389:  “Castlereagh Papers,” 3rd series, vol. i., p. 74.  This was written, of course, before he heard of the Frankfurt proposals; but it anticipates them in a remarkable way.  Thiers states that Castlereagh, after hearing of them, sent Aberdeen new instructions.  I cannot find any in our archives.  This letter warned Aberdeen against any compromise on the subject of Antwerp; but it is clear that Castlereagh, when he came to the allied headquarters, was a partisan of peace, as compared with the Czar and the Prussian patriots.  Schwarzenberg wrote (January 26th) at Langres:  “We ought to make peace here:  our Kaiser, also Stadion, Metternich, even Castlereagh, are fully of this opinion—­but Kaiser Alexander!”]

[Footnote 390:  Fournier, “Der Congress von Chatillon,” p. 242.]

[Footnote 391:  “Castlereagh Papers,” loc. cit., p. 112.]

[Footnote 392:  Metternich.  “Memoirs,” vol. i., p. 214.]

[Footnote 393:  “F.O.,” Austria, No. 102.]

[Footnote 394:  “Lettres inedites” (November 6th, 1813).]

[Footnote 395:  The memorandum is endorsed, “Extract of Instructions delivered to me by Gen. Pozzo di Borgo, 18 Dec, 1813” ("Russia,” No. 92).]

[Footnote 396:  Metternich’s letter to Hudelist, in Fournier, p. 242.]

[Footnote 397:  Houssaye’s “1814,” p. 14; Metternich, “Memoirs,” vol. i., p. 308.]