Footnotes

Transcriber’s Note

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. The issues tabulated below should be noted, along with the resolutions.

Variants of proper names have been replaced with the most commonly accepted version, in order to facilitate text searches.

The formatting and punctuation in the Index, which covers all four volumes, has been normalized where necessary to follow the intended styles.

There were a number of instances in the text where quoted material was missing either an opening or closing quotation mark. The proper placement is not always obvious, but the most plausible choice has been made in each case.

One instance occurs on p. 247, when Las Cases is paraphrasing a passage from Barry O’Meara’s book Napolean in Exile: the passage beginning ‘only wanted to make’ is as suitable a place as any to re-assume the quotation and make sense of the closing quotation mark several lines later.

(See O’Meara)

The references in the table below are to the page and line in the original printed text. Entries for the index will have an indicator of the column as the second digit.

10.8 delivered up defenceless to the barbarians.[”] Added.

34.38 he had just em[lp/pl]oyed; Transposed.

44.10 [“]When, at length, they determined to treat Added.

49.16 that would inev[eti/it]ably have been imposed Replaced.

49.22 Inserted in that Jo[u]rnal Added.

51.8 yet the pro[gid/dig]ies of his return Transposed.

54.11 Vimereux, Amblet[ue/eu]se, and Etaples Transposed.

58.27 But the object which particular[l]y engrossed Added.

58.40 and Decr[e/è]s, the minister, indefatigably prosecuted Replaced.

67.42 they would have given me every proof of it[.]” Added.

68.37 better and better pleased with your book.[”] Added.

73.9 answering any inq[iu/ui]ries he might make Transposed.

74.35 (this he pronounced very emphaticall[l]y) Removed.

81.1 the Minister Decr[é/è]s, on the subject here alluded to. Replaced.

92.10 a whim on the pa[s/r]t of the conqueror? Replaced.

94.38 Then, after a few moments[’] silence Added.

105.38 but Frederick the Great.[”] Added.

112.40 saying, [“]I go to oppose the enemy, Added.

113.20 the deg[ar/ra]ding conditions which were transmitted Transposed.

121.6 upon Paris[, /. “]Here I wanted firmness,” said he; Replaced.

122.9 “Yes,” said the Emperor, [“]and those orders Added.

122.21 It is certain that at Fontain[e]bleau Added.

125.36 The victories of Cham[p]-Aubert, Montmirail, Added.

126.23 he would never allow it[ it] to be said Removed.

130.36 from delica[c]y to the Emperor Alexander. Added.

136.1 that he had int[ne/en]ded to make choice Transposed.

136.21 one of his Ministers (the Duke Decr[é/è]s) Replaced.

141.15 the most su[r]prising character Added.

143.34 that it should be sup[p]ressed Added.

148.22 [“]But,” it was asked, Added.

148.41 Historie critique et raisonn[e/é]e Replaced.

157.4 of the monstrous in[s/c]onsistency of a Minister Replaced.

164.29 and a man of considerable fortune.[”] Added.

169.26 [“]At the same period, Removed.

180.30 [“]I have seen the plan of my own battle Added.

193.15 the Duke d’Engh[ei/ie]n, who might now be convicted Transposed.

208.8 I therefor[s/e] wrote to the Governor Replaced.

212.10 You have spok[o/e]n to me, Sir Replaced.

214.11 to converse with me re[s]pecting the letters Added.

215.42 ready for you some time[;] it was written Restored.

221.22 the first article of his in[s]tructions Added.

221.35 those persons who are in[s]trusted with the keeping Removed.

230.7 [“]You are too advantageously situated Added.

241.14 to permit me [s/t]o seal them with my arms Replaced.

242.22 [“]Dec. 31, 1816.” Added.

246.27 describes the Emperor to have said[,] Added.

247.5 that Sir Hudson Lowe said[,] Added.

247.8 [“]only wanted to make an instrument of him Added.

251.20 [vieing] with each other sic

262.38 he was acting in[ in] conformity with orders Redundant.

263.38 the reproach of having addr[e]ssed no complaint Added.

265.11 to depend entirely on my own resour[s/c]es. Replaced.

268.6 I had been so exce[e]dingly unwell Added.

272.6 visited in our solitude [h/b] numerous officers Replaced.

285.9 Thus I was absolut[le/el]y a prisoner Transposed.

286.13 Our b[i/e]rth was small, dirty, and inconvenient Replaced.

306.29 it was found nec[c]essary to allow me Removed.

327.9 if they never had been tran[s]gressed. Added.

328.29 and not to cho[o]se for him Added.

329.40 to be thus compromised[./?] Replaced.

330.1 and by removing or with[h]olding Added.

332.23 of the feelings of the illustr[i]ous victim? Added.

337.29 of your laws to foreign solicitations.[’] Added.

347.31 without incurring my anger—--[”] Added.

348.36 also the pe[e/c]uliar circumstances Replaced.

352.41 and pronounce[d] in the last instance Added.

368.20 on board the Bel[l]erophon> Added.

370.30 is inspired with the [c/s]ame sentiments Replaced.

371.5 [“]I have at last received Removed.

371.14 [“]My health is still as indifferent Removed.T

394.5 [“]You are a physician,” replied he laughing, Added.

394.19 near the limpid stream of this pure water.[”] Added.

409.28 in order to dis[c]harge my legacies. Added.

413.1.45 Army, the French, conspiracy in,[ in] Egypt, i. 133 Removed.

414.2.33 his wretched accommo[c/d]ation there Replaced.

414.2.51 his ideas on the armies of the An[s]cients Removed.

414.2.53 politic[e/a]l schemes of, Replaced.

414.2.54 contrasts th[a/e] characters of his Replaced.

419.1.32 Chateaubr[an/iand], M. de, his writings, Replaced.

421.1.54 Holland, public works of Napo[f/l]eon in Replaced.

424.2.64 —continued ill-treatment of, i[i/v]. 350 Wrong volume.

425.2.15 Protestan[t]ism and Popery Added.

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