[Footnote 533:  Maitland’s “Narrative,” pp. 23-39, disproves Thiers’ assertion that Napoleon was not expected there.  Maitland’s letter of July 10th to Hotham ("F.O.,” France, No. 126, not in the “Narrative”) ends:  “It appears to me from the anxiety the bearers express to get away, that they are very hard pressed by the Government at Paris.”  Hotham’s instructions of July 8th to Maitland were most stringent.  See my Essay in “Napoleonic Studies” (1904).]

[Footnote 534:  The date of the letter disproves Las Cases’ statement that it was written after his second interview with Maitland, and in consequence of the offers Maitland had made!

Napoleon’s reference to Themistocles has been much admired.  But why?  The Athenian statesman was found to have intrigued with Persia against Athens in time of peace; he fled to the Persian monarch and was richly rewarded as a renegade.  No simile could have been less felicitous.]

[Footnote 535:  “Narrative,” p. 244. [This work has been republished by Messrs. Blackwood, 1904.]]

[Footnote 536:  “F.O.,” France, No. 126; Allardyce, “Mems. of Lord Keith.”]

[Footnote 537:  Maitland, pp. 206, 239-242; Montholon, vol. i., ch. iii.]

[Footnote 538:  “Castlereagh Papers,” 3rd series, vol. ii., pp. 434,438.  Beatson’s Mem. is in “F.O.,” France, No. 123.  This and other facts refute Lord Holland’s statement ("Foreign Reminiscences,” p. 196) that the Government was treating for the transfer of St. Helena from the East India Company early in 1815.—­Why does Lord Rosebery, “Napoleon:  last Phase,” p. 58, write that Lord Liverpool thought that Napoleon should either (1) be handed over to Louis XVIII. to be treated as a rebel; or (2) treated as vermin; or (3) that we would (regretfully) detain him?  In his letters to Castlereagh at Paris, Liverpool expressly says it would be better for us, rather than any other Power, to detain him, and writes not a word about treating him as vermin.  Lord Rosebery is surely aware that our Government and Wellington did their best to preclude the possibility of the Prussians treating him as vermin.]

[Footnote 539:  Keith’s letter of August 1st, in “F.O.,” France, No. 123:  “The General and many of his suite have an idea that if they could but put foot on shore, no power could remove them, and they are determined to make the attempt if at all possible:  they are becoming most refractory.”]

[Footnote 540:  In our Colonial Office archives, St. Helena, No. 1, is a letter of August 2nd, 1815, from an Italian subject of Napoleon (addressed] to Mme. Bertrand, but really for him), stating that L16,000 had been placed in good hands for his service, one-fourth of which would be at once intrusted to firms at New York, Boston, “Philadelfi,” and Charlestown, to provide means for effecting his escape, and claiming again “le plus beau trone de l’univers.”  It begs him to get