The 'Correspondence of Napoleon'[230] contains a letter to Berthier, dated September 27, 1804. He says that an expedition to Ireland had been decided upon; that 18,000 men for that purpose were ready at Brest; that a simultaneous landing was to be attempted in Kent; while in Ireland the French army would march straight on Dublin. Meanwhile 200,000 men were encamped at Boulogne; but hostile plans collapsed with the smash of the French fleet at Trafalgar. A few weeks later the so-called 'Army of England' traversed the banks of the blue Danube instead of the Thames. General Mack capitulated at Ulm; Francis of Austria fled, and Napoleon's legions entered Vienna. FOOTNOTES: [190] The words of the French writer will be found at p. 78, _infra_. [191] The _London Courier_ of September 14, 1799, displays the following translation of a letter addressed to a Paris journal: 'Citizens,--_The Redacteur_ has said, and many other Journalists have repeated it, that Napper Tandy had been given up by the Senate of Hamburg. I declare to you, Citizens, that not a word is said of this in any letters received in any of the Banking houses in Paris, nor in those which I myself have received. I hasten to give you this information, because the Public ought never to be _deceived_. (Signed) 'DANIEL C. MEYER, 'Consul General from Hamburgh.' [192] _Castlereagh Papers_, i. 405. The letter, of which this is a bit, was written by a spy who contrived to accompany Tandy as a sort of aide-de-camp, and was on board the 'Anacreon' during the voyage. Wickham divulges merely his initial, 'O,' but the reader will find his name and career successfully traced in the Appendix. [193] Cox's _Irish Magazine_, January 1809, pp. 32-4. [194] It will be shown, later on, that an Irish spy named 'Durnin' resided at Hamburg. [195] See letter to Talleyrand, _ante_, p. 27. Some persons supposed that because Duckett lived at Hamburg like Turner, he used that great gangway to France for espionage. In the _Castlereagh Papers_ (ii. 6) Duckett is described as 'Secretary to Léonard Bourdon.' Bourdon is noticed in the _Nouvelle Biog. Génèrale_, was 'l'agent du Directoire à Hambourg, d'où il fit partir les émigrés.'