William Pitt and the Great War

by J. Holland Rose

[709] Hansard, iv, 255–325; "Life of Wilberforce," iii, 219–23; "Malmesbury Diaries," iv, 338, 347; "Lord Colchester's Diaries," i, 544–9.

[710] Chevening MSS.

[711] "Trial of Lord Melville" (1806), 256–9, 370, 378.

[712] "Creevey Papers," i, 34.

[713] "Barham Papers" (Navy Records Society), iii; Corbett, "Trafalgar Campaign," 70–2; Stanhope, iv, 287; Pellew, ii 356–64.

[714] Czartoryski, "Mems.," ii, ch. vii.

[715] "F. O.," Prussia, 70; Rose, "Napoleonic Studies," 54–8; Rose, "Napoleon," ii, 54.

[716] Garden, "Traités," viii, 317–23; Alison, App. to ch. xxxix.

[717] Toreno ("War of Independence in Spain," vol. i, ad fin.) had the story from Alava, who connected it with the arrival of the news of Ulm, on 2nd November. Pitt said: "All is not lost if I can succeed in raising up a national war in Europe, and this must have its commencement in Spain." But Malmesbury ("Diaries," iv, 340), who was present, does not name the incident, and states that Pitt disbelieved the news (see ch. xxiv).

[718] Pretyman MSS.