[Footnote 460:  Stanhope’s “Conversations,” p. 26.  In our archives ("Russia,” No. 95) is a suspicious letter of Pozzo di Borgo, dated Paris, July 10/22, 1814, to Castlereagh (it is not in his Letters) containing this sentence:  “L’existence de Napoleon, comme il etait aise a prevoir, est un inconvenient qui se rencontre partout.”  For Fouche’s letter to Napoleon, begging him voluntarily to retire to the New World, see Talleyrand’s “Mems.,” pt. vii., app. iv.  Lafayette ("Mems.,” vol. v., p. 345) asserts that French royalists were plotting his assassination.  Brulart, Governor of Corsica, was suspected by Napoleon, but, it seems, wrongly (Houssaye’s “1815,” p. 172).]

[Footnote 461:  Pallain, “Correspondance de Louis XVIII avec Talleyrand,” pp. 307, 316.]

[Footnote 462:  “Recollections,” p. 16; “F.O.,” France, No. 114.  The facts given above seem to me to refute the statements often made that the allies violated the Elba arrangement and so justified his escape.  The facts prove that the allies sought to compel Louis XVIII. to pay Napoleon the stipulated sum, and that the Emperor welcomed the non-payment.  His words to Lord Ebrington on December 6th breathe the conviction that France would soon rise.]

[Footnote 463:  Fleury de Chaboulon’s “Mems.,” vol. i., pp. 105-140; Lafayette, vol. v., p. 355.]

[Footnote 464:  Campbell’s “Journal”; Peyrusse, “Memorial,” p. 275.]

[Footnote 465:  Houssaye’s “1815,” p. 277.]

[Footnote 466:  Guizot, “Mems.,” ch. iii.; De Broglie, “Mems.,” bk. ii., ch. ii.; Fleury, vol. i., p. 259.]

[Footnote 467:  Peyrusse, “Memorial,” p. 277.]

[Footnote 468:  As Wellington pointed out ("Despatches,” May 5th, 1815), the phrase “il s’est livre a la vindicte publique” denotes public justice, not public vengeance.  At St. Helena, Napoleon told Gourgaud that he came back too soon from Elba, believing that the Congress had dissolved! (Gourgaud’s “Journals,” vol. ii., p. 323.)]

[Footnote 469:  “Diary,” April 15th and 18th, 1815.]

[Footnote 470:  “Parl.  Debates”; Romilly’s “Diary,” vol. ii., p. 360.]

[Footnote 471:  Napoleon told Cockburn during his last voyage that he bestowed this constitution, not because it was a wise measure, but as a needful concession to popular feeling.  The continental peoples were not fit for representative government as England was ("Last Voyages of Nap.,” pp. 115, 137).  So, too, he said to Gourgaud he was wrong in summoning the Chambers at all “especially as I meant to dismiss them as soon as I was a conqueror” (Gourgaud, “Journal,” vol. i., p. 93).]

[Footnote 472:  Mercer’s “Waterloo Campaign,” vol. i., p. 352.  For Fleury de Chaboulon’s mission to sound Austria, see his “Mems.,” vol. ii., and Madelin’s “Fouche,” ch. xxv.]

[Footnote 473:  In the “English Hist.  Review” for July, 1901, I have published the correspondence between Sir Hudson Lowe (Quartermaster-General of our forces in Belgium up to May, 1815) and Gneisenau, Mueffling, and Kleist.  These two last were most reluctant to send forward Prussian troops into Belgium to guard the weak frontier fortresses from a coup de main:  but Lowe’s arguments prevailed, thus deciding the main features of the war.]