[Footnote 449: For the first draft of this Declaration, see
"Corresp.," No. 21555 (note).]
[Footnote 450: Pasquier, vol. iii., ch. xv.; Macdonald, "Souvenirs.">[
[Footnote 451: Houssaye, pp. 593-623; Marmont, vol. vi., pp. 254-272; Macdonald, chs. xxvii.-xxviii. At Elba, Napoleon told Lord Ebrington that Marmont's troops were among the best, and his treachery ruined everything ("Macmillan's Mag.," Dec, 1894).]
[Footnote 452: Pasquier, vol. iii., ch. xvi.; "Castlereagh Papers," vol. ix., p. 442. Alison wrongly says that Napoleon chose Elba.]
[Footnote 453: Martens, vol. ix., p. 696.]
[Footnote 454: Thiers and Constant assign this event to the night of 11th-12th. I follow Fain and Macdonald in referring it to the next night.]
[Footnote 455: Bausset, "Cour de Napoléon.">[
[Footnote 456: Sir Neil Campbell's "Journal," p. 192.]
[Footnote 457: Ussher, "Napoleon's Last Voyages," p. 29.]
[Footnote 458: A quondam Jacobin, Pons (de l'Hérault), Commissioner of Mines at Elba, has left "Souvenirs de l'Ile d'Elbe," which are of colossal credulity. In chap. xi. he gives tales of plots to murder Napoleon—some of them very silly. In part ii., chap, i., he styles him "essentiellement réligieux," and a most tender-hearted man, who was compelled by prudence to hide his sensibility! Yet Campbell's official reports show that Pons, at that time, was far from admiring Napoleon.]