[Footnote 446:  “Castlereagh Papers,” vol. ix., p. 420; Pasquier, vol. iii., ch. xiii.]

[Footnote 447:  We do not know definitely why Alexander dropped Bernadotte so suddenly.  On March 17th he had assured the royalist agent, Baron de Vitrolles, that he would not hear of the Bourbons, and that he had first thought of establishing Bernadotte in France, and then Eugene.  We do know, however, that Bernadotte had made suspicious overtures to the French General Maison in Belgium ("Castlereagh Papers,” vol. ix., pp. 383, 445, 512).]

[Footnote 448:  De Pradt, “Restauration de la Royaute, le 31 Mars, 1814”; Pasquier, vol. iii., ch. xiii.  Vitrolles ("Mems.,” vol. i., pp. 95-101) says that Metternich assured him on March 15th that Austria would not insist on the Regency of Marie Louise, but would listen to the wishes of France.]

[Footnote 449:  For the first draft of this Declaration, see “Corresp.,” No. 21555 (note).]

[Footnote 450:  Pasquier, vol. iii., ch. xv.; Macdonald, “Souvenirs.”]

[Footnote 451:  Houssaye, pp. 593-623; Marmont, vol. vi., pp. 254-272; Macdonald, chs. xxvii.-xxviii.  At Elba, Napoleon told Lord Ebrington that Marmont’s troops were among the best, and his treachery ruined everything ("Macmillan’s Mag.,” Dec, 1894).]

[Footnote 452:  Pasquier, vol. iii., ch. xvi.; “Castlereagh Papers,” vol. ix., p. 442.  Alison wrongly says that Napoleon chose Elba.]

[Footnote 453:  Martens, vol. ix., p. 696.]

[Footnote 454:  Thiers and Constant assign this event to the night of 11th-12th.  I follow Fain and Macdonald in referring it to the next night.]

[Footnote 455:  Bausset, “Cour de Napoleon.”]

[Footnote 456:  Sir Neil Campbell’s “Journal,” p. 192.]

[Footnote 457:  Ussher, “Napoleon’s Last Voyages,” p. 29.]

[Footnote 458:  A quondam Jacobin, Pons (de l’Herault), Commissioner of Mines at Elba, has left “Souvenirs de l’Ile d’Elbe,” which are of colossal credulity.  In chap. xi. he gives tales of plots to murder Napoleon—­some of them very silly.  In part ii., chap, i., he styles him “essentiellement religieux,” and a most tender-hearted man, who was compelled by prudence to hide his sensibility!  Yet Campbell’s official reports show that Pons, at that time, was far from admiring Napoleon.]

[Footnote 459:  “F.O.,” Austria, No. 117.  Talleyrand, in his letters to Louis XVIII., claims to have broken up the compact of the Powers.  But it is clear that fear of Russia was more potent than Talleyrand’s finesse.  Before the Congress began Castlereagh and Wellington advised friendship with France so as to check “undue pretensions” elsewhere.]