[243] Some of these suggested incidents in Peter Simple.

[244] A. Milman, Life of Dean Milman.

[245] Narrative of Captivity.

[246] Napoleon judged the English Government by his own standard, for, not to speak of Mehée de la Touche, he sent over to England in 1808 Bourlac, who, pretending to be a royalist emissary, obtained interviews with Hawkesbury and Canning.

[247] A. F. iv. 1498.

[248] A. F. iv. 1493.

[249] F. 7, 3116.

[250] Sir Horace Rumbold, Recollections of a Diplomatist.

[251] A. F. iv. 1494; F. 7, 3750.

[252] Grasilier, Enlèvement de Rumbold, Paris, 1901.