[163] Remacle, Bonaparte et les Bourbons.
[164] Remacle.
[165] England in like manner released in 1810 eighty-four sailors of a captured privateer who had rescued a shipwrecked British crew.
[166] Correspondance.
[167] Projets de Débarquement, 1902. Napoleon mystified his subordinates as well as the foreigner, for on the 22nd August 1805 he wrote to Admiral Villeneuve, ‘England is ours. All is embarked. Appear for twenty-four hours and all is ended’ (Eng. Hist. Rev., October 1903).
[168] See a full account of this in Humanité Nouvelle, July to September 1899; Allonville, ‘Mém. Secrets’; Metternich, ‘Mémoires’; Lecestre, ‘Lettres de Napoléon,’ containing letters on this subject which were suppressed in the collection published by Napoleon III.
[169] Talleyrand’s letter to Fox, April 1, 1806.
[170] Lettres de Madame de Genlis.
[171] A. F. 1493.
[172] T. 1910.