[Footnote 191:  Pasolini, “Memorie,” ad init.]

[Footnote 192:  “Lettres inedites de Talleyrand a Napoleon” (Paris, 1889).]

[Footnote 193:  Mr. Jackson’s despatch of February 17th, 1802, from Paris.  According to Miot de Melito ("Mems.,” ch. xiv.), Bonaparte had offered the post of President to his brother Joseph, but fettered it by so many restrictions that Joseph declined the honour.]

[Footnote 194:  Roederer tells us ("OEuvres,” vol. iii., p. 428) that he had drawn up two plans of a constitution for the Cisalpine; the one very short and leaving much to the President, the other precise and detailed.  He told Talleyrand to advise Bonaparte to adopt the former as it was “short and”—­he was about to add “clear” when the diplomatist cut him short with the words, “Yes:  short and obscure!”]

[Footnote 195:  Napoleon’s letter of February 2nd, 1802, to Joseph Bonaparte; see too Cornwallis’s memorandum of February 18th.]

[Footnote 196:  It is only fair to Cornwallis to quote the letter, marked “Private,” which he received from Hawkesbury at the same time that he was bidden to stand firm: 

“DOWNING STREET, March 22nd, 1802.

“I think it right to inform you that I have had a confidential communication with Otto, who will use his utmost endeavours to induce his Government to agree to the articles respecting the Prince of Orange and the prisoners in the shape in which they are now proposed.  I have very little doubt of his success, and I should hope therefore that you will soon be released.  I need not remind you of the importance of sending your most expeditious messenger the moment our fate is determined.  The Treasury is almost exhausted, and Mr. Addington cannot well make his loan in the present state of uncertainty.”]

[Footnote 197:  See the British notes of November 6th-16th, 1801, in the “Cornwallis Correspondence,” vol. iii.  In his speech in the House of Lords, May 13th, 1802, Lord Grenville complained that we had had to send to the West Indies in time of peace a fleet double as large as that kept there during the late war.]

[Footnote 198:  For these and the following negotiations see Lucien Bonaparte’s “Memoires,” vol. ii., and Garden’s “Traites de Paix,” vol. iii., ch. xxxiv.  The Hon. H. Taylor, in “The North American Review” of November, 1898, has computed that the New World was thus divided in 1801: 

Spain             7,028,000 square miles. 
Great Britain     3,719,000   "      "
Portugal          3,209,000   "      "
United States       827,000   "      "
Russia              577,000   "      "
France               29,000   "      "

[Footnote 199:  “History of the United States, 1801-1813,” by H. Adams, vol. i, p. 409.]

[Footnote 200:  Napoleon’s letter of November 2nd, 1802.]

[Footnote 201:  Merry’s despatch of October 21st, 1802.]