[152] _Recueil de Documents sur les exactions, vols, et cruautés des armées prussiennes en France._ The book is out of print, but may be seen at the British Museum, under the title, ‘Prussia--Army of.’ It is to be regretted that, whilst every book, however dull, relating to that war has been translated into English, this record has hitherto escaped the publicity it so well deserves. [153] _Ibid._ 19. [154] _Ibid._ 8. [155] _Ibid._ 13. [156] Chaudordy’s Circular of November 29, 1870, in the _Recueil_. [157] _Recueil_, 12, 15, 67, 119. [158] _Ibid._ 56. [159] _Ibid._ 54. [160] _Recueil_, 33-37, and Lady Bloomfield’s _Reminiscences_, ii. 235, 8, 9. [161] The _Times_, March 7, 1881. [162] _Recueil_, 29; compare 91. [163] Morley’s _Cobden_, ii. 177. [164] Professor Sheldon Amos quotes the fact, but refrains from naming the paper, in his preface to Manning’s _Commentaries on the Law of Nations_, xl. Was it not the _Journal de France_ for Nov. 21, 1871? [165] iii. i. viii. 4. [166] _De Officiis_, i. 13. [167] _Modernes Völkerrecht_, Art. 565. [168] Polyænus, _Strategematum libri octo_, i. 34. [169] Polyænus, v. 41. [170] Ortolan’s _Diplomatie de la mer_, ii. 31, 375-7. [171] James’s _Naval History_, ii. 211; Campbell’s _Admirals_, vii. 132. [172] James, _Naval History_, ii. 225. [173] Nicolas, _Royal Navy_, ii. 27. [174] Hautefeuille, _Droit Maritime_, iii. 433. ‘Les vaisseaux de l’Etat eux-mêmes ne rougissent pas de ces grossiers mensonges qui prennent le nom de ruses de guerre.’ [175] xiii. 1. [176] Montaigne, ch. v. [177] vii. 4. ‘Quia appellatione nostra vix apte exprimi possunt, Græca pronuntiatione Stratagemata dicuntur.’ [178] Livy, xlii. 47. [179] _Histoire de la France_, iii. 401. [180] The word musket is from _muschetto_, a kind of hawk, implying that its attack was equally destructive and unforeseen. [181] Polyænus, ii. 19. [182] Polyænus, iii. 2; from Thucydides, iii. 34. [183] _Ibid._ vii. 27, 2. [184] _Ibid._ iv. 2-4. [185] Liskenne, _Bibliothèque Historique et Militaire_, iii. 845. [186] _Memoirs_, ch. xix. [187] ix. 6, 3. [188] vi. 22. [189] vi. 15. [190] iv. 7, 17. [191] E. Fournier, _L’Esprit dans l’Histoire_, 145-150. [192] iii. 10. [193] Liskenne, v. 233-4. [194] _Soldier’s Pocket-Book_, 81. [195] Polyænus, viii. 16, 8. ‘Lege Romanorum jubente hostium exploratores interficere.’ [196] Livy, xxx. 29. According to Polyænus, he gave them a dinner and sent them back with instructions to tell what they had seen; viii. 16, 8. [197] Watson’s _Philip II._ iii. 311. [198] Liskenne, iii. 840. [199] Hoffman, _Kriegslist_, 15. [200] Petitot’s _Mémoires de la France_, xv. 317. [201] Polyænus, ii. 27. [202] _Ibid._ v. 1, 4. [203] _Memoirs_, ch. xix. [204] Livy, xxxiv. 17. [205] As at the Brussels Conference, 1874, when such a proposal was made by the member for Sweden and Norway. [206] In Pinkerton, xvi. 817. [207] Turner’s _Nineteen Years in Samoa_, 304.