[Footnote 390: Fournier, "Der Congress von Châtillon," p. 242.]
[Footnote 391: "Castlereagh Papers," loc. cit., p. 112.]
[Footnote 392: Metternich. "Memoirs," vol. i., p. 214.]
[Footnote 393: "F.O.," Austria, No. 102.]
[Footnote 394: "Lettres inédites" (November 6th, 1813).]
[Footnote 395: The memorandum is endorsed, "Extract of Instructions delivered to me by Gen. Pozzo di Borgo, 18 Dec, 1813" ("Russia," No. 92).]
[Footnote 396: Metternich's letter to Hudelist, in Fournier, p. 242.]
[Footnote 397: Houssaye's "1814," p. 14; Metternich, "Memoirs," vol. i., p. 308.]
[Footnote 398: "Our success and everything depend upon our moderation and justice," he wrote to Lord Bathurst (Napier, bk. xxiii., ch. ii.).]
[Footnote 399: "Lettres inédites" (November 12th). The date is important: it refutes Napier's statement (bk. xxiii., ch. iv.) that the Emperor had planned that Ferdinand should enter Spain early in November when the disputes between Wellington and the Cortès at Madrid were at their height. Bignon (vol. xiii., p. 88 et seq.) says that Talleyrand's indiscretion revealed the negotiations to the Spanish Cortès and Wellington; but our general's despatches show that he did not hear of them before January 9th or 10th. He then wrote: "I have long suspected that Bonaparte would adopt this expedient; and if he had had less pride and more common sense, it would have succeeded.">[