[Footnote 1454: Despatch of 14-26 Feb., 1807. Cited by Martens, _Recueil
des Traités de la Russie_, II, p. 506.]
[Footnote 1455: Cited by Driault, _Napoléon et l’Europe, Tilsit_, p.
44.]
[Footnote 1456: Coquelle, _Napoléon et l’Angleterre_, pp. 153-64.]
[Footnote 1457: It is curious that M. Driault (_Tilsit_, p. 161)
attributes the expedition to Egypt to the new administration. The
probable explanation is that it took place in March, 1807, the new
administration came to power in the same month. In his earlier work, _La
Politique Orientale de Napoléon_, he attributes it correctly, however,
to the Fox-Grenville Cabinet (although he misrepresents the motives).]
[Footnote 1458: F.O. Russia, 69.]
[Footnote 1459: 12 March, 1807. F.O. Russia, 72.]
[Footnote 1460: Canning to Gower, 16 May, 1807. F.O. Russia, 69.]
[Footnote 1461: The preceding administration had also thought of sending
Sir Harford Jones to mediate between Persia and Russia (F.O. Russia,
68). Canning took up the project (Instructions to Jones, June, 1807.
F.O. Russia, 69), but Tilsit delayed the departure and changed the
object of the mission.]
[Footnote 1462: A contemporary scandalmonger states that Canning was
sure that the mission would fail and that he was only providing Paget
with a “job.” Lady Erroll, to Frere (undated). G. Testing, _J. H. Frere
and his Friends_, p. 147.]
[Footnote 1463: Instructions, no date (draft). F.O. Turkey, 56.]
[Footnote 1464: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1465: Instructions, May, 1807 [_sic_]. _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1466: Instructions to Paget, 18 May, 1807. F.O. Turkey, 56.]
[Footnote 1467: Castlereagh to Fox, 17 May, 1807. W.O. 6, 56.]
[Footnote 1468: Castlereagh to Fox, 14 June, 1807. B.M. ADD. MSS. 37050,
f. 178.]
[Footnote 1469: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1470: Napoleon to Talleyrand, 11 March, 1807.
_Correspondance_, XIV, 11986.
Napoleon to Sebastiani, 1 Dec., 1806. _Correspondance_, XIV, 11337.