[Footnote 398:  “Our success and everything depend upon our moderation and justice,” he wrote to Lord Bathurst (Napier, bk. xxiii., ch. ii.).]

[Footnote 399:  “Lettres inedites” (November 12th).  The date is important:  it refutes Napier’s statement (bk. xxiii., ch. iv.) that the Emperor had planned that Ferdinand should enter Spain early in November when the disputes between Wellington and the Cortes at Madrid were at their height.  Bignon (vol. xiii., p. 88 et seq.) says that Talleyrand’s indiscretion revealed the negotiations to the Spanish Cortes and Wellington; but our general’s despatches show that he did not hear of them before January 9th or 10th.  He then wrote:  “I have long suspected that Bonaparte would adopt this expedient; and if he had had less pride and more common sense, it would have succeeded.”]

[Footnote 400:  On January 14th the Emperor ordered Soult, as soon as the ratification of the treaty*treatry was known, to set out northwards from Bayonne “with all his army, only leaving what is necessary to form a screen.”  Suchet was likewise to hurry with 10,000 foot, en poste, and two-thirds of his horse, to Lyons.  On the 22nd the Emperor blames both Marshals for not sending off the infantry, though the Spanish treaty had not been ratified.  After long delays Ferdinand set out for Spain on March 13th, when the war was almost over.]

[Footnote 401:  Houssaye’s “1814,” ch. ii.; Mueffling’s “Campaign of 1814.”]

[Footnote 402:  Letter of January 31st to Joseph.]

[Footnote 403:  “Mems. de Langeron” in Houssaye, p. 62; but see Mueffling.]

[Footnote 404:  Letter of February 2nd to Clarke.]

[Footnote 405:  Metternich said of Castlereagh, “I can’t praise him enough:  his views are most peaceful, in our sense” (Fournier, p. 252).]

[Footnote 406:  Castlereagh to Lord Liverpool, January 22nd and 30th, 1814.]

[Footnote 407:  Letter to Hudelist (February 3rd), in Fournier, p. 255.]

[Footnote 408:  Stewart’s Mem. of January 27th, 1814, in “Castlereagh Papers,” vol. ix., p. 535.  On that day Hardenberg noted in his diary:  “Discussion on the plan of operations, and misunderstandings.  Intrigue of Stein to get the army straight to Paris, as the Czar wants.  The Austrians oppose this:  others don’t know what they want” (Fournier, p. 361).]

[Footnote 409:  Stewart’s notes in “Castlereagh Papers,” pp. 541-548.  On February 17th Castlereagh promised to give back all our conquests in the West Indies, except Tobago, and to try to regain for France Guadaloupe and Cayenne from Sweden and Portugal; also to restore all the French possessions east of the Cape of Good Hope except the Iles de France (Mauritius) and de Bourbon (Fournier, p. 381).]

[Footnote 410:  Letters of January 31st and February 2nd to Joseph.]

[Footnote 411:  Printed in Napoleon’s “Corresp.” of February 17th.  I cannot agree with Ernouf, “Vie de Maret,” and Fournier, that Caulaincourt could have signed peace merely on Maret’s “carte blanche” despatch.  The man who had been cruelly duped by Napoleon in the D’Enghien affair naturally wanted an explicit order now.]