[Footnote 213:  The report of the Imaum is given in Castlereagh’s “Letters,” Second Series, vol. i., p. 203.]

[Footnote 214:  “Voyage de Decouverte aux Terres Australes sur les Corvettes, le Geographe et le Naturaliste,” redige par M.F.  Peron (Paris, 1807-15).  From the Atlas the accompanying map has been copied.]

[Footnote 215:  His later mishaps may here be briefly recounted.  Being compelled to touch at the Ile de France for repairs to his ship, he was there seized and detained as a spy by General Decaen, until the chivalrous intercession of the French explorer, Bougainville, finally availed to procure his release in the year 1810.  The conduct of Decaen was the more odious, as the French crews during their stay at Sydney in the autumn of 1802, when the news of the Peace of Amiens was as yet unknown, had received not only much help in the repair of their ships, but most generous personal attentions, officials and private persons at Sydney agreeing to put themselves on short rations in that season of dearth in order that the explorers might have food.  Though this fact was brought to Decaen’s knowledge by the brother of Commodore Baudin, he none the less refused to acknowledge the validity of the passport which Flinders, as a geographical explorer, had received from the French authorities, but detained him in captivity for seven years.  For the details see “A Voyage of Discovery to the Australian Isles,” by Captain Flinders (London, 1814), vol. ii., chs. vii.-ix.  The names given by Flinders on the coasts of Western and South Australia have been retained owing to the priority of his investigation:  but the French names have been kept on the coast between the mouth of the Murray and Bass Strait for the same reason.]

[Footnote 216:  See Baudin’s letter to King of December 23rd, 1803, in vol. v. (Appendix) of “Historical Records of New South Wales,” and the other important letters and despatches contained there, as also ibid., pp. 133 and 376.]

[Footnote 217:  Mr. Merry’s ciphered despatch from Paris, May 7th, 1802.]

[Footnote 218:  It is impossible to enter into the complicated question of the reconstruction of Germany effected in 1802-3.  A general agreement had been made at Rastadt that, as an indemnity for the losses of German States in the conquest of the Rhineland by France, they should receive the ecclesiastical lands of the old Empire.  The Imperial Diet appointed a delegation to consider the whole question; but before this body assembled (on August 24th, 1802), a number of treaties had been secretly made at Paris, with the approval of Russia, which favoured Prussia and depressed Austria.  Austria received the archbishoprics of Trent and Brixen:  while her Archdukes (formerly of Tuscany and Modena) were installed in Salzburg and Breisgau.  Prussia, as the protege of France, gained Hildesheim, Paderborn, Erfurt, the city of Muenster, etc.  Bavaria received Wuerzburg, Bamberg, Augsburg, Passau, etc.  See Garden, “Traites,” vol. vii., ch. xxxii.; “Annual Register” of 1802, pp. 648-665; Oncken, “Consulat und Kaiserthum,” vol. ii.; and Beer’s “Zehn Jahre Oesterreichischer Politik.”]