above. For information on this
topic I am indebted to Lieutenant-Colonel Fynmore of Sandgate. In the
manoeuvres of 1910 regiments were told off to extemporize means of
crossing the canal in the quickest and most effective way.

[694] "W. O.," 76; "Diary of Sir J. Moore," ii, 71-4.

[695] Pretyman MSS.

[696] Harrowby MSS.

[697] Mahan, ii, ch. xv, _ad fin._; "Ann. Reg." (1804), 555; "Mems. of
R. P. Ward," i, ch. vii. For the subsequent plan of Ministers to attack
Ferrol, from which Moore dissuaded them, see "Diary of Sir J. Moore,"
ii, ch. xxi.

[698] Harrowby MSS.

[699] Rose, "Third Coalition," 32, 53, 61, 65, 67, 71, 75.

[700] Harrowby MSS.

[701] Lefebvre, "Cabinets de l'Europe," ii, 33.

[702] Pretyman MSS.

[703] Stanhope, iv, 244-8.

[704] See the letter in "Pitt and Napoleon Miscellanies."

[705] "H. O." Ireland (Corresp.), 99.

[706] "Mems. of Fox," iv, 45, 68, 72, 75.

[707] See an interesting account by Dr. Hunt, "Transactions of the Royal
Hist. Soc." (1908), pp. 7-16.

[708] Hansard, iv, 1013-22, 1060.

[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, "Traites," 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.

[719] Rose, "Third Coalition," 25, 32, 44, 61, 66, 73, 76, 87, 97, etc.;
Mr. Julian Corbett, "The Trafalgar Campaign," chs. i, ii. For a critique
on Pitt's Mediterranean plans, see Bunbury's "Great War with France,"
183-95.

[720] Rose, "Third Coalition," 127-30.

[721] Czartoryski, "Mems.," ii, 74-6.

[722] Czartoryski, "Mems.," ii, 78; Rose, "Third Coal