[392] Thiers, Consulate and Empire (Forbes's translation), vol. xii. p. 21.
[393] Mémoires de Bourrienne, French Minister at Hamburg, vol. viii. pp. 193-198.
[394] Annual Register, 1809; State Papers, 747.
[395] April 1, 1808; Naval Chronicle, vol. xxi. p. 48. May 7, 1809; Annual Register, 1809, p. 698.
[396] Napoleon saw, in 1809, that his work at Tilsit was all to be done over, since the only war Russia could make against the English was by commerce, which was protected nearly as before. There was sold in Mayence sugar and coffee which came from Riga.—Mémoires de Savary, duc de Rovigo (Imperial Chief of Police), vol. iii. p. 135.
[397] D'Ivernois, Effects of the Continental blockade, London, Jan., 1810. Lord Grenville, one of the leaders of the Opposition, expressed a similar confidence when speaking in the House of Lords, Feb. 8, 1810. (Cobbett's Parl. Debates, vol. xv. p. 347.) So also the King's speech at the opening of Parliament, Jan. 19, 1809: "The public revenues, notwithstanding we are shut out from almost all the continent of Europe and entirely from the United States, has increased to a degree never expected, even by those persons who were most sanguine." (Naval Chronicle, vol. xxi. p. 48.)
[398] Monthly Magazine, vol. xxi. p. 195.
[399] Ibid., vol. xxii. p. 514.
[400] Ibid., vol. xxi. p. 539.
[401] Monthly Magazine, vol. xxii. p. 618.