"Everybody admits that the Queen of Prussia is the author of the evils the Prussian nation suffers.

This is heard everywhere.

How changed she is since that fatal interview with the Emperor Alexander!...

The portrait of the Emperor Alexander, presented to her by the Prince, was found in the apartment of the Queen at Potsdam."] [Footnote 1299: "La Guerre patriotique" (1812-1815), according to the letters of contemporaries, by Doubravine (in Russian).

The Report of the Russian envoy, M.de Balachof, is in French,] [Footnote 12100: An allusion to the murder of Paul I.] [Footnote 12101: Stanislas de Girardin, "Memoires," III., 249.
(Reception of Nivose 12, year X.) The First consul addresses the Senate: "Citizens, I warn you that I regard the nomination of Daunou to the senate as a personal insult, and you know that I have never put up with one."-- "Correspondance de Napoleon I." (Letter of Sept.23, 1809, to M.
de Champagny): "The Emperor Francis insulted me in writing to me that I cede nothing to him, when, out of consideration for him, I have reduced my demands nearly one-half." (Instead of 2,750,000 Austrian subjects he demanded only 1,600,000.)--Roederer, III., 377 (Jan.24, 1801): "The French people must put up with my defects if they find I am of service to them; it is my fault that I cannot endure insults."] [Footnote 12102: M.de Metternich, II., 378.