18, 1814.

"If, at Leipsic, I had had 30,000 cannon balls to fire off on the evening of the 18th, I should to-day be master of the world."] [Footnote 12113: "Memorial," Nov.

30, 1815.] [Footnote 12114: Lanfrey, III.,--399.

Letters of Talleyrand, October 11 and 27, 1805, and memorandum addressed to Napoleon.] [Footnote 12115: At the council held in relation to the future marriage of Napoleon, Cambaceres vainly supported an alliance with the Russians.
The following week, he says to M.Pasquier: "When one has only one good reason to give and it cannot possibly be given, it is natural that one should be beaten..., You will see that it is so good that one phrase suffices to make its force fully understood.

I am deeply convinced that in two years we shall have a war with that of two powers whose daughter the Emperor does not marry.