[182] Ibid., 23 Juillet.
[183] Substance of Speech of Bismarck to the Reichstag, [July 20, 1870,] explanatory of Documents relating to the Declaration of War,—Franco-Prussian War, No. 3, p. 29: Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Vol. LXX. Discours du Comte de Bismarck au Reichstag, le 20 Juillet 1870: Angeberg, [Chodzko,] Recueil des Traités, etc., concernant la Guerre Franco-Allemande, Tom. I. p. 215.
[184] Aegidi und Klauhold, Staatsarchiv, 19 Band, s. 107, No. 4056. Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Vol. LXX.: Franco-Prussian War, No. 3, pp. 2-3.
[185] For the foregoing statistics, see Almanach de Gotha, 1870, under the names of the several States referred to,—also, for Areas and Population, Tableaux Comparatifs, I., II., III., in same volume, pp. 1037-38.
[186] “So wie die Franzosen die Herren des Landes sind, die Engländer die des grössern Meeres, wir die der Beide und Alles umfassenden Luft sind.”—Richter, (Jean Paul,) Frieden-Predigt an Deutschland, V.: Sämmtliche Werke, (Berlin, 1826-38,) Theil XXXIV. s. 13.
[187] Conversations-Lexikon, (Leipzig, 1866,) 8 Band, art. Hohenzollern. Carlyle’s History of Friedrick II., (London, 1858,) Book III. Ch. 1, Vol. I. p. 200.
[188] Antoinette, daughter of Étienne Murat, third brother of Joachim.—Biographie Générale, (Didot,) Tom. XXXVI. col. 984, art. Murat, note.
[189] Almanach de Gotha, 1870, pp. 85-87, art. Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
[190] Address at the Palais de Saint-Cloud, July 16, 1870: Journal Officiel du Soir, 18 Juillet 1870.
[191] Hume, History of England, Ch. LXV., March 17, 1672.—The terms of the Declaration on this point were,—“Scarce a town within their territories that is not filled with abusive pictures.” (Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. IV. col. 514.) Upon which Hume remarks: “The Dutch were long at a loss what to make of this article, till it was discovered that a portrait of Cornelius de Witt, brother to the Pensionary, painted by order of certain magistrates of Dort, and hung up in a chamber of the Town-House, had given occasion to the complaint. In the perspective of this portrait the painter had drawn some ships on fire in a harbor. This was construed to be Chatham, where De Witt had really distinguished himself,” during the previous war, in the way here indicated,—“the disgrace” of which, says Lingard, “sunk deep into the heart of the King and the hearts of his subjects.”—History of England, Vol. IX. Ch. III., June 13, 1667.