FOOTNOTES
[55] [For the terms of the treaty, see volume XII.]
[56] Gazing from the Kremlin on Moscow in flames, Napoleon said, “This forebodes the greatest calamity for us.” Journal du Maréchal Castellane, Paris, 1895.
[57] From the Russian State Archives.
[58] The letter written by Emperor Alexander on the 18th of March, 1816, to Count Sieven, Ambassador in London, upon the occasion of the publication of the treaty of the Holy Alliance and preserved in the Russian State Archives, affords a clear instance of the direction of politics at that time.
[59] [Skrine[l] says, however: “For nearly half a century the Holy Alliance was the keystone of the edifice erected at Vienna, the hidden chain which linked Russia with the other military powers.”]
