[Footnote 55: Czartoryski ("Mems.," vol. ii., ch. xii.) states that
England offered Holland to Prussia. I find no proof of this in our
Records. The districts between Antwerp and Cleves are Belgian, not
Dutch; and we never wavered in our support of the House of Orange.]
[Footnote 56: These proposals, dated October 27th, 1805, were modified somewhat on the news of Mack's disaster and the Treaty of Potsdam. Hardenberg assured Harrowby (November 24th) that, despite England's liberal pecuniary help, Frederick William felt great difficulty in assenting to the proposed territorial arrangements ("F.O.," Prussia, No. 70).]
[Footnote 57: Hardenberg's "Memoirs," vol. ii., pp. 377, 382.]
[Footnote 58: Ompteda, p. 188. The army returned in February, 1806.]
[Footnote 59: "F.O.," Prussia, No. 70 (November 23rd).]
[Footnote 60: "Diaries of Right Hon. G. Rose," vol. ii., pp. 223-224.]
[Footnote 61: Ib., pp. 233-283; Rosebery, "Life of Pitt," p. 258.]
[Footnote 62: Lord Malmesbury's "Diary," vol. iv., p. 114.]
[Footnote 63: Letter of December 27th, 1805; Jackson, "Diaries," vol. ii., p. 387.]
[Footnote 64: Mollien, "Mems.," vol. i. ad fin., and vol. ii., p. 80, for the budget of 1806; also, Fiévée, "Mes Relations avec Bonaparte," vol. ii., pp. 180-203.]