etternich, "Mems.," i, 57 (Eng. ed.); Hardenberg, "Mems.," ii,
220-4.

[738] Hardenberg, "Mems.," ii, 292-300.

[739] "Malmesbury Diaries," iv, 340.

[740] Pretyman MSS.; "Life of Wilberforce," iii, 412.

[741] Rose, "Third Coalition," 208-20. In "F. O.," Russia, 59, is a
ciphered despatch of 25th October 1805 that, if circumstances favoured,
a second British expedition (_i.e._, besides that destined for Hanover)
would be made ready to seize Walcheren.

[742] Pitt MSS., 142.

[743] See Hansing, "Hardenberg und die dritte Coalition" (Appendix), for
a comparison of these terms with those of the Anglo-Russian treaty of
11th April 1805.

[744] Czartoryski, "Mems.," ii, ch. ix. The editor wrongly gives the
date of Vorontzoff's letter as 17/29 September 1805, though it contains
references to Ulm and Trafalgar. It is of 18th-21st November. "F. O.,"
Prussia, 70. Mulgrave to Harrowby, 23rd November.

[745] _I.e._, the Prussian mediation by Napoleon.

[746] Harrowby MSS.

[747] See "Pitt and Napoleon Miscellanies" for the letter in full.

[748] Rose, "Third Coalition," 230-5.

[749] The French held the fortress of Hameln.

[750] Rose, "Third Coalition," 259.

[751] _Ibid._, 260, 261.

[752] Pitt MSS., 142.

[753] Pretyman MSS.

[754] G. Jackson, "Diaries," i, 377, 381, 384. Harrowby left Berlin on
7th or 8th January 1806 (_ibid._, 390).

[755] Harrowby MSS.

[756] G. Jackson, "Diaries," i, 381.

[757] Peach, "Historic Houses of Bath." The "Bath Herald" of 11th
January 1806 has an ode containing the lines:

Oh prepare, prepare
The renovating draught! He comes by stealth
(For so unconscious worth is ever seen)
With thoughts uplifted but retiring mien.

[758] Ruville, "Chatham," iii, 246.

[759] Chevening MSS.

[760] Thomas Hardy ("The Dynasts," i, Act vi, sc. 7) places the incident
in the week after Austerlitz. The date is impossible.

[761] Stanhope, iv, 369.

[762] Pitt MSS., 337.

[763] _Ibid._, 121. See, too, in his letter of 23rd December
("Castlereagh Corresp.," vi, 92).

[764] J. Bagot, "Canning and his Friends," i, 227. The statement about
the gout corrects Malmesbury ("Diaries," iv, 343) that the attack of
gout left Pitt far weaker and with digestion impaired. Malmesbury was
not at Bath. Frere's father had lately died.

[765] Bagot, "Canning, etc.," 415-9; H. Newbolt, "Year of Trafalgar,"
190-3.

[766] Pitt MSS., 121.

[767] "Castlereagh Cor