[211] "Dropmore P.," ii, 377–81; "Dumouriez," by J. H. Rose and A. M. Broadley, 162–75.
[212] "F. O.," Austria, 32, Morton Eden to Grenville, 30th March.
[213] "War Office" 6, (7); 23rd February, to Duke of York; B.M. Add. MSS 34448, Grenville to Auckland, 23rd February; Calvert, "Campaigns in Flanders and Holland," chs. i, ii.
[214] This letter (for which see "Pitt and Napoleon Miscellanies") corrects Mr. Fortescue's statement (iv, 125) that Ministers alone were responsible for the Dunkirk scheme. George III was morally responsible for it.
[215] "Dropmore P.," ii, 387.
[216] "F. O.," Austria, 33, Eden to Grenville, 27th and 28th March, 10th April; Vivenot, ii, 541; Häusser, i, 483.
[217] Ibid., Eden to Grenville, 15th April. This probably refers to Alsace; but it may possibly hint at a partition of Venice which had been mooted at Vienna before. A slice of Piedmont was also desired (Eden to Grenville, 8th June).
[218] Ibid., Eden to Grenville, 30th March.
[219] The West India expedition was again and again deferred in favour of that to la Vendée or Toulon (Vivenot, iii, 383).
[220] Sybel, iii, 38–40; Häusser, i, 488, 489.