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[169] ”Ann. Reg.,” 122-5; ”Parl Hist.,” x.x.x, 259-61; Miles, ”Corresp.,”

ii, 4.

[170] ”F. O.,” France, 41.

[171] Whether Chauvelin was guilty of any worse offence than entertaining at his house the editors of Opposition newspapers (Miles, ”Corresp.,” i, 440) is not proven. Maret admitted to Miles that some scoundrels were sowing sedition in England; but he added the not very comforting a.s.surance that, in that case, they would cease to be Frenchmen. Miles evidently believed those intrigues to be the work of French emissaries, (_Ibid._, 450, 451).

[172] ”Parl. Hist.,” x.x.x, 262-6; ”Ann. Reg.,” 119-22.

[173] Miles, ”Corresp.,” ii, 28-36, 42. See, too, Sorel, iii, 258, on Maret's letter.

[174] ”Dropmore P.,” ii, 366; but see Miles, ”Corresp.,” ii, 43, 44.

[175] ”Corresp. du Gen. Miranda avec le Gen. Dumouriez ... depuis janvier 1793,” 3-8. See ”Dropmore P.,” ii, 371, on Dumouriez' plan.

[176] _Ibid._, 8.

[177] ”Dropmore P.,” ii, 365.

[178] Miles, ii, 36.

[179] ”Gower's Despatches,” 278.

[180] B.M. Add. MSS., 34447.

[181] ”F. O.,” France, 41. The order to Chauvelin must have been given earlier, probably on 22nd January, as will be seen by Dumouriez' letter to Miranda soon to be quoted. George III's order of 24th January (endorsed by Pitt) for Chauvelin's expulsion cannot have the importance which Mr. J. L. le B. Hammond (”Fox,” 262-3) a.s.signs to it. See ”Pitt and Napoleon Miscellanies” for Lebrun's letter to Grenville.

[182] Published in ”Dumouriez, etc.,” 159, 160, by J. H. Rose and A. M.

Broadley, from B.M. Add. MSS., 34447.

[183] Lecky, vi, 119-22.

[184] Miles, ”Corresp.,” ii, 55.

[185] Miles, ”Conduct of France towards Great Britain,” 108; ”Corresp.,”

ii, 62.

[186] Miles, ”Conduct of France towards Great Britain,” 108.

[187] Miles, ”Corresp.,” ii, 62.

[188] Dumouriez, ”Mems.,” ii, 128-31 (edit. of 1794).

[189] ”Parl. Hist.,” x.x.x, 350. Fox admitted (p. 371) that Maret did not think himself authorized to negotiate. See, too, Bland Burges in ”Auckland Journals,” ii, 493. I cannot agree with Mr. Oscar Browning (”Varennes, etc.,” 198), and Mr. J. L. le B. Hammond (”Fox,” 258) as to the importance of Maret's ”mission.” Lecky (vi, 126) also overrates it, in my judgement.

[190] ”Dropmore P.,” ii, 322.

[191] ”Auckland Journals,” ii, 465.

[192] ”Moniteur,” 29th November 1792.