Note 22 — Chapter VII · Napoleon—(continued).

Lord Caetlereagh, who was at this council, could not comprehend why Blücher and Schwartzenburg could not defeat Napoleon with their enormous superiority of numbers; and demurred to the expense—England was the paymaster of the Coalition—of bringing up Wintzingerode and Bülow. “Milord,” said a bystander, “vous ne connaissez pas cet homme!”