[Footnote 1471: Talleyrand to Emperor, 15 March, 1807. Bertrand,
_Lettres de Talleyrand_, p. 357.]
[Footnote 1472: Talleyrand to Emperor, 8 March, 1807. Bertrand, op.
cit., pp. 332-3.]
[Footnote 1473: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1474: Driault, _Tilsit_, pp. 141-3.]
[Footnote 1475: Driault, _Politique Orientale_, p. 190.]
[Footnote 1476: Arbuthnot to Howick, 22 Dec., 1806. F.O. Turkey, 52.]
[Footnote 1477: Stratford Canning to Canning, 1 Dec., 1808. “The Papers
of S. Canning.” F.O. 1, 352.]
[Footnote 1478: The conquest of the Crimea was dangled before their
eyes.]
[Footnote 1479: Paget to Canning, 12 July, 1807. F.O. Turkey, 56.