[172] Bismarck to Bernstorff, July 19, 1870, with Inclosures: Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Vol. LXX.,--Franco-Prussian War, No. 3, pp. 5-8. Gerolt to Fish, August 11, 1870, with Inclosures: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., Vol. I. No. 1, Part 1,--Foreign Relations, pp. 219-221. The reader will notice that the copy of the Telegram in this latter volume is the paper on p. 221, with the erroneous heading, “_Count Bismarck to Baron Gerolt_.” [173] Bismarck to Bernstorff, July 18, and to Gerolt, July 19, 1870: Parliamentary Papers and Executive Documents, Inclosures, _ubi supra_. [174] Journal Officiel du Soir, 17 Juillet 1870. [175] “De ce jour commence pour les ministres mes collègues, et pour moi, une grande responsibilité. [“Oui!” _à gauche_.] Nous l’acceptons, le cœur léger.” [176] For the full debate, see the _Journal Officiel du Soir_, 17 Juillet 1870, and _Supplément_. [177] Earl Granville to Lords Lyons and Loftus, July 15, 1870,--Correspondence respecting the Negotiations preliminary to the War between France and Prussia, p. 35: Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Vol. LXX. [178] Lord Lyons to Earl Granville, July 15, 1870,--Correspondence respecting the Negotiations preliminary to the War between France and Prussia, pp. 39, 40: Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Vol. LXX. [179] See references, _ante_, p. 19, Note 1. For this telegram in the original, see Aegidi und Klauhold, _Staatsarchiv_, (Hamburg, 1870,) 19 Band, s. 44, No. 4033. [180] Journal Officiel du Soir, 17 Juillet 1870. [181] Ibid., 20 Juillet. [182] Ibid., 23 Juillet. [183] Substance of Speech of Bismarck to the Reichstag, [July 20, 1870,] explanatory of Documents relating to the Declaration of War,--Franco-Prussian War, No. 3, p. 29: Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Vol. LXX. Discours du Comte de Bismarck au Reichstag, le 20 Juillet 1870: Angeberg, [Chodzko,] Recueil des Traités, etc., concernant la Guerre Franco-Allemande, Tom. I. p. 215. [184] Aegidi und Klauhold, Staatsarchiv, 19 Band, s. 107, No. 4056. Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Vol. LXX.: Franco-Prussian War, No. 3, pp. 2-3. [185] For the foregoing statistics, see _Almanach de Gotha_, 1870, under the names of the several States referred to,--also, for Areas and Population, _Tableaux Comparatifs_, I., II., III., in same volume, pp. 1037-38. [186] “So wie die Franzosen die Herren des Landes sind, die Engländer die des grössern Meeres, wir die der Beide und Alles umfassenden Luft sind.”--RICHTER, (Jean Paul,) _Frieden-Predigt an Deutschland_, V.: Sämmtliche Werke, (Berlin, 1826-38,) Theil XXXIV. s. 13. [187] Conversations-Lexikon, (Leipzig, 1866,) 8 Band, art. HOHENZOLLERN. Carlyle’s History of Friedrick II., (London, 1858,) Book III. Ch. 1, Vol. I. p. 200. [188] Antoinette, daughter of Étienne Murat, third brother of Joachim.--_Biographie Générale_, (Didot,) Tom. XXXVI. col. 984, art. MURAT, note. [189] Almanach de Gotha, 1870, pp. 85-87, art. HOHENZOLLERN-SIGMARINGEN.