But the sting was in the tail: for a secret article stipulated that Ferdinand IV.

should cede Sicily to Joseph Bonaparte and receive the Balearic Isles from Napoleon's ally, Spain.
Such was the news which our envoy heard, after forcing his way to Oubril's presence, just as the latter was hurrying off to St.
Petersburg.

At that city an important change had taken place; Czartoryski had retired in favour of Baron Budberg, who was less favourable to a close alliance with England; and it appears certain that Oubril would not have broken through his instructions had he not known of this change.

What other motives led him to break faith with England, Sicily, and Spain are not clearly known.

He claimed that the new order of things in Germany rendered it highly important to get the French troops out of that land.