Note 187 — BOOK THE THIRD 1812-1815

I had many of the facts, more in detail than here related, directly from Mr. Gallois,* and indirectly from Dalberg himself; and they were confirmed or corroborated by the concurrence of other accounts of the less material facts from several others, and especially Pozzo di Borgo,† whose interesting relation of these transactions I had heard before I knew of Vitrolles’s intrigue, with which it was so far from being inconsistent that it tallied exactly in one main particular, the surprise of Alexander at finding no concerted plan for the Bourbons on his arrival at Paris.—V.H.

[* Jean Antoine Gallois, French politician, and friend of Lord Holland. He died in 1828.]

[† Count Pozzo di Borgo (1764-1842), diplomatist; afterwards Russian Ambassador in England.]