[87]

"F.O. Records," Naples, No. 73.

[88]

This was on Napoleon's advice. He wrote to Talleyrand from Rambouillet on August 18th, to give as an excuse for the delay, "The Emperor is hunting and will not be back before the end of the week."

[89]

So too Napoleon said at St. Helena to Las Cases: "Fox's death was one of the fatalities of my career."