[222] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. LXI. It was this letter that ultimately led to the founding of Netley Hospital.
[223] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. LXIII.
[224] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 24.
[225] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 12. Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. LXII.
[226] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 18. See also Times, 17th of April, 1855.
[227] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. LXII.
[228] Ducos was personally hostile to England, though he pretended to be in favour of the alliance. Lord Malmesbury says that he and General Changarnier were the authors of a plan in 1851 for a piratical descent on the Isle of Wight, and for seizing the Queen’s person at Osborne. See Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. I., pp. 360 and 396. General Cavaignac also thought at the time such a plan to be feasible in the event of a war with England.
[229] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. LXII.
[230] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 19.
[231] It was said to be composed by his mother, Queen Hortense.