[Footnote 172:  Porter, “Progress of the Nation,” ch. xiv.]

[Footnote 173:  “New Letters of Napoleon I.”  See too his letter of June 17th.]

[Footnote 174:  “Cornwallis Correspondence,” vol. iii., pp. 380-382.  Few records exist of the negotiations between Lord Hawkesbury and M. Otto at London.  I have found none in the Foreign Office archives.  The general facts are given by Garden, “Traites,” vol. vii., ch. xxxi.; only a few of the discussions were reduced to writing.  This seriously prejudiced our interests at Amiens.]

[Footnote 175:  Lefebvre, “Cabinets de l’Europe,” ch. iv]

[Footnote 176:  Chaptal.  “Mes Souvenirs,” pp. 287, 291, and 359.]

[Footnote 177:  See Chapter XIV. of this work.]

[Footnote 178:  Thibaudeau, op. cit., ch. xxvi.; Lavisse, “Napoleon,” ch. i.]

[Footnote 179:  “A Diary of St. Helena,” by Lady Malcolm, p. 97.]

[Footnote 180:  “The Two Duchesses,” edited by Vere Foster, p. 172.  Lord Malmesbury ("Diaries,” vol. iv., p. 257) is less favourable:  “When B. is out of his ceremonious habits, his language is often coarse and vulgar.”]

[Footnote 181:  Jurien de la Graviere, “Guerres Maritimes,” vol. ii., chap. vii.]

[Footnote 182:  These facts were fully acknowledged later by Otto:  see his despatch of January 6th, 1802, to Talleyrand, published by Du Casse in his “Negociations relatives au Traite d’Amiens,” vol. iii.]

[Footnote 183:  “F.O.,” France, No. 59.  The memoir is dated October 19th, 1801.]

[Footnote 184:  “F.O.,” France, No. 59.]

[Footnote 185:  Castlereagh, “Letters and Despatches,” Second Series, vol. i., p. 62, and the speeches of Ministers on November 3rd, 1801.]

[Footnote 186:  Cornwallis, “Correspondence,” vol. iii., despatch of December 3rd, 1801.  The feelings of the native Maltese were strongly for annexation to Britain, and against the return of the Order at all.  They sent a deputation to London (February, 1802), which was shabbily treated by our Government so as to avoid offending Bonaparte. (See “Correspondence of W.A.  Miles,” vol. ii., pp. 323-329, who drew up their memorial.)]

[Footnote 187:  Cornwallis’s despatches of January 10th and 23rd, 1802.]

[Footnote 188:  Project of a treaty forwarded by Cornwallis to London on December 27th, 1801, in the Public Record Office, No. 615.]

[Footnote 189:  See the “Paget Papers,” vol. ii.  France gained the right of admission to the Black Sea:  the despatches of Mr. Merry from Paris in May, 1802, show that France and Russia were planning schemes of partition of Turkey. ("F.O.,” France, No. 62.)]

[Footnote 190:  The despatches of March 14th and 22nd, 1802, show how strong was the repugnance of our Government to this shabby treatment of the Prince of Orange; and it is clear that Cornwallis exceeded his instructions in signing peace on those terms. (See Garden, vol. vii., p. 142.) By a secret treaty with Prussia (May, 1802), France procured Fulda for the House of Orange.]