Voir p. 35i, note

2. On lit dans le journal de Malmesbury, sous la date du 4 juillet (p. 283, cf. 279) : « £ 5oo,ooo was asked by Monsieur to raise an army in France under Pichegru, who is now in London. »

3. C'est-à-dire sur la publication des pièces relatives à la demande d'abdication (cf. p. 290, note 1).

4. Elle mourut poitrinaire peu de temps après (voir la Partie V).

34o LA CONSPIRATION DE GEORGES.

Pelham had nearly persuaded him to give the £400>000- Monsieur1 s idea was, not to brihe or seduce an army (which, he said would désert and run away the moment they got the money), but to be able to maintain and collect those who, in case of a counter-revolution, would look to be restored to their former ranks and fortunes, and that thèse were innumerable and of every class 1 ; and he added, that he supposed when such a corps was collected, composed of old officiers and several of Buonaparte's best gênerais (Monsieur evidently alluded to Moreau), and that he was at the head of it, he should then consider him like any other Power ; till then, he trusted the sum he asked was not beyond the importance of the attempt.

Pelham" s ideas remain the same, to induce the three great continental Powers to act, either by large subsidies or by large offers : the Low Goun tries and even Holland to Prussia ; ail Lombardy to Austria ; to Russia whatever she might ask. Addington, he said, had the idea of sending 10,000 men to Portugal ; but il would be to sacrifice them, if he could not secure a diversion on the continent ; and that, could we do this, not only Portugal, but we, should be safe from every hostile attack.

I perfectly concurred with him in ail he said.... Yet I felt an invincible répugnance, and eATen appréhension, ol acting under the direction of Addington, who I was every day more and more convinced was unequal to his situation....

Pelham said that Pichegru was the man Monsieur confided in ; that he, Pelham, thought Moreau might be

i. Le duc d'Enghien, qui cependant ne faisait fond ni sur Moreau ni sur Pichegru, partageait et contribuait à entretenir l'illusion que des défections nombreuses en faveur de la monarchie se produiraient dans l'armée, si l'occasion se présentait (voir, dans la Partie V, les lettres des ai avril, 20 mai, a août).

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had l. After much conversation.... lie said he would call on me to-morrow.

(Malmesbury's Diaries, IV, a85 2.)