Note 43 — BOOK THE FIRST 1807-1810

[A story is told in the Memoirs of Sir Charles Napier, on the authority of Lady Castlereagh, that Canning was willing to reinstate Castlereagh if he would give up Sir John Moore. Alison states the cause of the duel to have been the fact that Castlereagh detected, in the intrigue, a design of Canning for self-advancement and resented it accordingly.]