in his time of need--a charge that has lately been revived by M.Hanotaux.To this it is only needful to reply that the French Emperor entered into alliance with us at the time of the Crimean War merely for his own objects, and allowed all friendly feeling to be ended by French threats of an invasion of England in 1858 and his shabby treatment of Italy in the matter of Savoy and Nice a year later.
On his side, Bismarck also complained that our feeling for the German cause went no further than "theoretical sympathy," and that "during the war England never compromised herself so far in our favour as to endanger her friendship with France.

On the contrary." These vague and enigmatic charges at bottom only express the annoyance of the combatants at their failure to draw neutrals into the strife[10].
[10] Hanotaux, _Contemporary France_, vol.i.p.

9 (Eng.

ed.); _Bismarck: his Reflections and Reminiscences,_ vol.ii.p.

61.