[Footnote 260:  A copy of this letter, with the detailed proposals, is in our Foreign Office archives (Russia, No. 52).]

[Footnote 261:  Bourgeois, “Manuel de Politique Etrangere,” vol. ii., p. 243.]

[Footnote 262:  See Castlereagh’s “Letters and Despatches,” Second Series, vol. i., pp. 75-82, as to the need of conciliating public opinion, even by accepting Corfu as a set-off for Malta, provided a durable peace could thus be secured.]

[Footnote 263:  “Lettres inedites de Talleyrand,” August 21st, 1803.]

[Footnote 264:  Garden, “Traites,” vol. viii., p. 191.]

[Footnote 265:  Holland was required to furnish 16,000 troops and maintain 18,000 French, to provide 10 ships of war and 350 gunboats.]

[Footnote 266:  “Corresp.,” May 23rd, 1803.]

[Footnote 267:  Nelson’s letters of July 2nd.  See too Mahan’s “Life of Nelson,” vol. ii., pp. 180-188, and Napoleon’s letters of November 24th, 1803, encouraging the Mamelukes to look to France.]

[Footnote 268:  “Foreign Office Records,” Sicily and Naples, No. 55, July 25th.]

[Footnote 269:  Letter of July 28th, 1803.]

[Footnote 270:  “Nap.  Corresp.,” August 23rd, 1803, and Oncken, ch. v.]

[Footnote 271:  “Corresp.,” vol. viii., No. 6627.]

[Footnote 272:  Lefebvre, “Cabinets de l’Europe,” ch. viii.; “Nap.  Corresp.,” vol. viii., Nos. 6979, 6985, 7007, 7098, 7113.]

[Footnote 273:  The French and Dutch ships in commission were:  ships of the line, 48; frigates, 37; corvettes, 22; gun-brigs, etc., 124; flotilla, 2,115. (See “Mems. of the Earl of St. Vincent,” vol. ii., p. 218.)]

[Footnote 274:  Pellew’s “Life of Lord Sidmouth,” vol. ii., p. 239.]

[Footnote 275:  Stanhope’s “Life of Pitt,” vol. iv., p. 213.]

[Footnote 276:  Roederer, " OEuvres,” vol. iii., p. 348; Meneval, vol. i., ch. iv.]

[Footnote 277:  Lucien ("Mems.,” vol. iii., pp. 315-320) says at Malmaison; but Napoleon’s “Correspondance” shows that it was at St. Cloud.  Masson (” Nap. et sa Famille,” ch. xii.) throws doubt on the story.]

[Footnote 278:_Ibid_., p. 318.  The scene was described by Murat:  the real phrase was coquine, but it was softened down by Murat to maitresse.]

[Footnote 279:  Miot de Melito, “Mems.,” vol. 1., ch. xv.  Lucien settled in the Papal States, where he, the quondam Jacobin and proven libertine, later on received from the Pope the title of Prince de Canino.]

[Footnote 280:  “Lettres inedites de Napoleon,” April 22nd, 1805.]

[Footnote 281:  Pasquier, “Mems.,” vol. i., p. 167, and Boulay de la Meurthe, “Les dernieres Annees du duc d’Enghien,” p. 299.  An intriguing royalist of Neufchatel, Fauche-Borel, had been to England in 1802 to get the help of the Addington Ministry, but failed.  See Caudrillier’s articles in the “Revue Historique,” Nov., 1900—­March, 1901.]