[Footnote 65: The Court of Naples asserted that in the Convention with France its ambassador, the Comte de Gallo, exceeded his powers in promising neutrality. See Lucchesini's conversation with Gentz, quoted by Garden, "Traités," vol. x., p. 129.]
[Footnote 66: See my article in the "Eng. Hist. Rev.," April, 1900.]
[Footnote 67: Ducasse, "Les Rois Frères de Napoléon," p. 11.]
[Footnote 68: Letter of February 7th, 1806. On the same day he blames Junot, then commander of Parma, for too great lenience to some rebels near that city. The Italians were a false people, who only respected a strong Government. Let him, then, burn two large villages so that no trace remained, shoot the priest of one village, and send three or four hundred of the guilty to the galleys. "Trust my old experience of the Italians.">[
[Footnote 69: For a list of the chief Napoleonic titles, see Appendix, ad fin.]
[Footnote 70: January 2nd, 1802; so too Fiévée, "Mes Relations avec Bonaparte," vol. ii., p. 210, who notes that, by founding an order of nobility, Napoleon ended his own isolation and attached to his interests a powerful landed caste.]
[Footnote 71: Hardenberg's "Memoirs," vol. ii., p. 390-394.]
[Footnote 72: Hardenberg to Harrowby on January 7th, "Prussia," No. 70.]
[Footnote 73: I have not found a copy of this project; but in "Prussia," No. 70 (forwarded by Jackson on January 27th, 1806), there is a detailed "Mémoire explicatif," whence I extract these details, as yet unpublished, I believe. Neither Hardenberg, Garden, Jackson, nor Paget mentions them.]
[Footnote 74: Records, "Prussia," No. 70, dated February 21st.]