[Footnote 1522: To Savary, 6 Oct., 1807. _Correspondance_, XVI, 13225.
To Savary, 14 Oct., 1807, No. 13253. To Savary, 1 Nov., 1807, No. 13318.
To Savary, 7 Nov., 1807, No. 13339.
Champagny to Savary, 9 Oct., 1807. Sbornik, 83, pp. 121-3.
Champagny to Savary, 8 Nov., 1807. _Ibid._, pp. 211-6.
Tolstoï to Roumiantsoff, 26 Oct.-7 Nov., 1807. Sbornik, 89, pp. 177-9.
_Ibid._, 27 Oct.-8 Nov., 1807. _Ibid._, pp. 185-6.]
[Footnote 1523: Champagny to Caulaincourt, 21 March (2 April), 1808.
Sbornik, 88, p. 594.]
[Footnote 1524: Especially the letter to Alexander of 2 Feb., 1808.
_Correspondance_ XVI, 13524.]
[Footnote 1525: Champagny assured Tolstoi that he should only exchange
full powers with Mouhib to rid the minister from the insistence of the
Turk. Tolstoï to Roumiantsoff, 13-25 Jan., 1808. Sbornik, 89, p. 382.]
[Footnote 1526: Caulaincourt to Napoleon, 15 February, 1809. N.
Mikhailovitch, _Les Relations de la Russie et la France_, III, p. 83.]
[Footnote 1527: Vandal, I, Chap. VIII, gives an excellent account of
them. The notes relating to them were withdrawn by Alexander from Paris
in 1816. Ernouf, _Maret, Duc de Bassano_, p. 323 note.]
[Footnote 1528: Napoleon to Alexander, 29 April, 1808. _Correspondance_,
XVI, 13791.]
[Footnote 1529: Memorandum by Stratford Canning, 15 March, 1809. F.O.
Turkey, 63.
Sebastiani to Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1 June, 1807. Arch. Nat. AF.,
IV, 1688.]
[Footnote 1530: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1531: Reis Effendi to Talleyrand, 5 Aug., 1807. Driault, _La
Politique Orientale de Napoléon_, p. 224.]
[Footnote 1532: Champagny to Sebastiani, 14 Jan., 1808. Driault, op.
cit., p. 264.]
[Footnote 1533: Napoleon to Champagny, 12 Jan., 1808. _Correspondance_,
XVI, 13446.]
[Footnote 1534: Napoleon to Ali Pasha, 9 July, 1807. _Correspondance_,
XV, 12887.]
[Footnote 1535: Adair to Canning, 19 March, 1809. Adair, _Peace of the
Dardanelles_, I, p. 145.
And Latour-Maubourg to Champagny, 9 Feb., 1810. Arch. Aff. Et. Turquie,
Corres. Politique, 220.]
[Footnote 1536: Reis Effendi to Captain Stewart (of the “Sea Horse”), 13
Feb., 1808. Adair, _Peace of the Dardanelles_, I, p. 2.]
[Footnote 1537: Canning to Paget, 25 Sept., 1807. _Paget Papers_, II, p.
363.]
[Footnote 1538: Malmesbury, _Diaries and Correspondence_, IV, pp. 393,
399. Ross to Malmesbury, 21 Sept., 1807. _Letters of the Earl of
Malmesbury_, II, pp. 48-9, and same to same 23 Sept., p. 50.
Jackson thought Wilson one of “the most harum-scarum fellows that
perhaps ever existed, yet there is an immense deal of good in him and
much sound judgment at bottom.” _Diaries and Letters of Sir G. Jackson_,
II, pp. 108-9. On another occasion he attributed Wilson’s misstatements
to lively imagination. _Further Letters of Sir G. Jackson_, I, p. 447.]
[Footnote 1539: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1540: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1541: Ross to Malmesbury, 29 Sept., 1807. _Letters of
Malmesbury_, II, pp. 51-2.]
[Footnote 1542: Sir Robert Wilson to Canning, 29 Oct., 1807. Randolph,
_Life of Sir R. Wilson_, II, p. 436. His statement is substantially the
same as that reported by Roumiantsoff to Savary. Savary to Napoleon, 4
Nov., 1807. Sbornik, 83, p. 185. Roumiantsoff to Tolstoï, 6 Nov.,
Sbornik, 89, p. 223 (here he states that Wilson declared that Britain
would conquer the Ionian Islands and offer them to Russia).]
[Footnote 1543: Roumiantsoff to D’Alopeus, 26 Oct.-7 Nov., 1807.
Martens, _Traités de la Russie_, VI, p. 139.]
[Footnote 1544: Barthelemy de Lesseps to Talleyrand, 22 Oct., 1807. Jean
de la Tour, _Les Prémices de l’Alliance franco-russe_, pp. 265-6, and 3
Nov., 1807, pp. 274-5.]
[Footnote 1545: Canning to Adair, 26 June, 1808. F.O. Turkey, 60. Cf.
Adair to Bathurst, 10 Feb., 1810. “One great benefit of restoring peace
with Turkey was the chance which it afforded of profiting by events that
might arise to detach Russia from France.” F.O. Turkey, 68.]
[Footnote 1546: Canning to Adair, 3 Dec., 1808. _The Papers of Stratford
Canning_. F.O. III, 352. Canning to Adair, 9 May, 1809. F.O. Turkey,
63.]
[Footnote 1547: Cf. Adair, _Peace of the Dardanelles_, I, p. xxi.]
[Footnote 1548: Canning dubbed him “Bauba—dara—adul—Phoolah,” and made
him the hero of the ballad, “Sweet Matilda Pollengen,” which was
supposed to describe the course of Adair’s love when a student at
Gottingen. _Creevey Papers_, I, p. 22 note.]
[Footnote 1549: Canning to Adair, 3 Dec., 1808. _Papers of Stratford
Canning_, F.O. 352, III.]
[Footnote 1550: Canning to Adair, 26 June, 1808. F.O. Turkey, 60.]
[Footnote 1551: The envoy was Seyed Ahmet, a native of Barbary. He had a
letter from Ali to King George III (undated, recd. 23 July, 1808). F.O.
Turkey, 61.]
[Footnote 1552: J. P. Morier to Hammond, 8 Dec., 1807. F.O. Turkey, 59.]
[Footnote 1553: Leake to Canning, 26 Dec., 1808. F.O. Turkey, 61.]
[Footnote 1554: Canning to Adair, 26 June, 1808. F.O. Turkey, 60.]
[Footnote 1555: Canning to Adair, 20 Aug., 21 Oct., 1808. F.O. Turkey,
60.]
[Footnote 1556: Driault, _La Politique Orientale de Napoléon_, p. 278.]
[Footnote 1557: 5 January, 1809. Martens, N.R., I, p. 160. Hertslet, II,
p. 370. Elliot, II, p. 207.]
[Footnote 1558: Metternich, _Mémoires_, II, p. 275.]
[Footnote 1559: Sebastiani’s memorandum, 12 July, 1808. Arch. Nat. AF.,
IV, 1688.]
[Footnote 1560: Latour-Maubourg to Porte, 17 Jan., 1809. Adair, _Peace
of the Dardanelles_, I, pp. 133-8.]
[Footnote 1561: _Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy_, I, p.
371.]
[Footnote 1562: Articles V and VIII. On the 11 Jan., 1810, Sedki
Effendi, the Turkish Minister, sent a note demanding the release of
Natali, the Turkish Consul in London, from the King’s Bench Prison, in
virtue of Article VIII of the Treaty of the Dardanelles. F.O. Turkey,
72.]
[Footnote 1563: Adair to Canning, 3 June, 1809. _Peace of the
Dardanelles_, I, p. 209. S. Canning to Wellesley, 21 Feb., 1812. F.O.
Turkey, 77. S. Canning to Wellesley, 12 April, 1812. _Ibid._
Latour-Maubourg to Champagny, 8 July, 1809. Arch. Aff. Et. Turquie,
Corr. Pol., 219.]
[Footnote 1564: Metternich to Stadion, 17 Aug., 1808. _Mémoires_, II,
pp. 197, 199.]
[Footnote 1565: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1566: Talleyrand, _Mémoires_, I, pp. 412-13.]
[Footnote 1567: Sorel, _L’Europe et la Révolution française_, VII, p.
302.]
[Footnote 1568: Alexander to the Dowager Empress, 25 Aug., 1808. N.
Mikhailovitch, _L’Empereur Alexandre_, I, p. 83. Martens, _Traités de la
Russie_, XIV, pp. 62-3.]
[Footnote 1569: Convention of Erfurt, 12 Oct., 1808. _Correspondance_,
XVII, 14372. Martens, _Traités de la Russie_, XIV, p. 71.]
[Footnote 1570: Caulaincourt to Napoleon, 15 Feb., 1809. N.
Mikhailovitch, _Les Relations de la Russie_, etc., III, p. 83. Cf.
Martens, _Traités de la Russie_, XIV, p. 57.]
[Footnote 1571: Sorel, op. cit., VII, p. 358.]
[Footnote 1572: 2 June, 1809. Cited by Driault, _Tilsit_, pp. 430-1.]
[Footnote 1573: There is a draft of an answer dated 16 Oct., 1809 (the
date is important), but it was not sent. Arch. Aff. Et. Turquie, Corres.
Pol., 219.]
[Footnote 1574: 3 Dec., 1809. _Correspondance_, XX, 16031.]
[Footnote 1575: Napoleon to Champagny, 7 Sept., 1809. _Correspondance_,
XIX, 15765.]
[Footnote 1576: Champagny to Latour-Maubourg, 10 Aug., 1810. Draft of a
note from Latour-Maubourg, 2 Aug., 1810. Arch. Aff. Et. Turquie,
Corresp. Pol., 220.]
[Footnote 1577: When Fourier wrote a preface to the _Déscription
d’Egypte_, Napoleon himself changed it in this sense. Champollion-
Figeac, _Fourier et Napoleon_, pp. 83, 105, 122.]
[Footnote 1578: Metternich to Emperor, 9 July, 1810. _Mémoires_, II, pp.
360-9; 28 July, pp. 369-80, and I, pp. 107-113.]
[Footnote 1579: Adair to Canning, 25 March, 1809. _Peace of the
Dardanelles_, I, p. 162.]
[Footnote 1580: Metternich to Emperor, 31 Oct., 1810, II, pp. 396-8.
Martens, _Traités de la Russie_, III, pp. 73-84, 36-37, 56-61.]
[Footnote 1581: S. L. Poole, _Stratford de Redclyffe_, I, p. 128.
Same view asserted in _Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy_, II,
p. 365.]
[Footnote 1582: _Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy_, I, p. 388
and III, p. 553.]
[Footnote 1583: S. L. Poole, op. cit., I, p. 91.]
[Footnote 1584: To Liston, 12 March, 1811. F.O. Turkey, 75. Ch. Culling
Smith to S. Canning, 21 March, 1811. F.O. Turkey, 73.
Vandal, _Napoléon et Alexandre_, III, p. 239, asserts that Alexander
requested the good offices of Britain.]
[Footnote 1585: Lady Jackson, _Further Selections from the Diaries and
Letters of Sir George Jackson_, I, p. 287.]
[Footnote 1586: (?) to Buckingham, 30 Nov., 1811. _Mémoires of the
Regency_, I, p. 150.]
[Footnote 1587: Miles, _Correspondence on the French Revolution_, p.
370.]
[Footnote 1588: Liston to Castlereagh, 11 July, 1812. F.O. Turkey, 79.]
[Footnote 1589: His correspondence with St. Petersburg was—through
Ludolf, the unrecognised envoy of the Neapolitan Bourbons in
Constantinople—with Sierra Capriola, their unrecognised envoy in St.
Petersburg.
Liston was instructed to give Ludolf £500 for his services and to
promise him more. Castlereagh to Liston, March [_sic_,] 1812. F.O.
Turkey, 79.]
[Footnote 1590: For the origin of the conception. Adair to Stuart, 7
Aug., 1808; 25 Aug. _Stratford Canning Papers_. F.O. 352, I. Adair to
Canning, 13 July, 1808. F.O. Turkey, 60. Adair to Canning, 19 March,
1809. _Peace of the Dardanelles_, I, p. 150.
The Porte intimated that it wanted no fleets. Adair to Bathurst, 26
Dec., 1809. _Peace of the Dardanelles_, I, p. 313. Latour-Maubourg to
Champagny, 22 Jan., 1810. Arch. Aff. Et. Turquie, Corresp. Pol., 220.
Bathurst instructed Adair to give up the project, on the grounds that
the Turks were too influenced by events in the Danube to be depended
upon. To Adair, 19 Oct., 1809. F.O. Turkey, 64.]
[Footnote 1591: Adair to Wellesley, 24 April, 1810. F.O. Turkey, 68.]
[Footnote 1592: Adair to Bathurst, 26 Dec., 1809. _Peace of the
Dardanelles_, I, p. 324.]
[Footnote 1593: “The great obstacle to peace is the expectation of a war
in the North.” S. Canning to Wellesley, 6 Dec., 1811. F.O. Turkey, 74.]
[Footnote 1594: Adair to Wellesley, 31 March, 1810. F.O. Turkey, 68. It
was rejected by the Russians. Adair to Wellesley, 5 July, 1810. F.O.
Turkey, 68.
Castlereagh to Liston, 27 March, 1812. F.O. Turkey, 79. Called the
project “impossible.”]
[Footnote 1595: Instructions to Latour-Maubourg, 19 Feb., 1811. Arch.
Aff. Et. Turquie, Corresp. Pol., 220.]
[Footnote 1596: Instructions to Latour-Maubourg, 27 April, 1811. Arch.
Aff. Et. Turquie, Corresp. Pol., 221.]
[Footnote 1597: Latour-Maubourg to Maret, 4 April, 1812. _Ibid._, 224.]
[Footnote 1598: This was a pretext. If the Turks wanted an alliance they
would not have been punctilious on a point of etiquette. Pellisier,
_Diplomatie française dans le Levant_. Arch. Aff. Et. Turquie. Mémoires
et Documents, 63.]
[Footnote 1599: Maret to Latour-Maubourg, 31 Jan., 1812. Arch. Aff. Et.
Turquie, Corresp. Pol., 224.]
[Footnote 1600: Draft of a Treaty of Alliance, 9 Feb., 1812. _Ibid._
Turquie, 224. The Turks made peace with the Russians, and turned the
whole down with the reflection, “L’homme qui a soif ne refuse pas l’eau
qu’on lui présente.” Latour-Maubourg to Maret, 17 May, 1812. _Ibid._,
224.]
[Footnote 1601: In November, 1811, Napoleon thought of appointing
Seguier the Consul at Triesta, in his place. _Ibid._, 222.]
[Footnote 1602: “Documents inédits,” cited by Vandal, op. cit., III, p.
336.]
[Footnote 1603: Talleyrand and Bernadotte pressed him to do so.
Czerniczeff to Tsar, 9-21 April, 1811. Sbornik, 21, pp. 59-63. Kourakine
to Tsar, 6-18 Feb., 1811. _Ibid._, 334-5.
Nesselrode, _Lettres et Papiers_, III, pp. 232-3, 254-5. Austria did the
same. M. Mikhailovitch, _Alexandre_, I, pp. 336-437.]
[Footnote 1604: S. Canning to Castlereagh, 17 June, 1812. F.O. Turkey,
77. Liston to Castlereagh, 18-27 July, 7 Aug., 14 Sept., 1812. _Ibid._,
79.
Greig to Vorontsoff, 30 Aug., 1812. _Archives Vorontsoff_, XIX, p. 452.