[175] "Corresp. du Gen. Miranda avec le Gen. Dumouriez ... depuis janvier 1793," 3-8. See "Dropmore P.," ii, 371, on Dumouriez' plan. [176] _Ibid._, 8. [177] "Dropmore P.," ii, 365. [178] Miles, ii, 36. [179] "Gower's Despatches," 278. [180] B.M. Add. MSS., 34447. [181] "F. O.," France, 41. The order to Chauvelin must have been given earlier, probably on 22nd January, as will be seen by Dumouriez' letter to Miranda soon to be quoted. George III's order of 24th January (endorsed by Pitt) for Chauvelin's expulsion cannot have the importance which Mr. J. L. le B. Hammond ("Fox," 262-3) assigns to it. See "Pitt and Napoleon Miscellanies" for Lebrun's letter to Grenville. [182] Published in "Dumouriez, etc.," 159, 160, by J. H. Rose and A. M. Broadley, from B.M. Add. MSS., 34447. [183] Lecky, vi, 119-22. [184] Miles, "Corresp.," ii, 55. [185] Miles, "Conduct of France towards Great Britain," 108; "Corresp.," ii, 62. [186] Miles, "Conduct of France towards Great Britain," 108. [187] Miles, "Corresp.," ii, 62. [188] Dumouriez, "Mems.," ii, 128-31 (edit. of 1794). [189] "Parl. Hist.," xxx, 350. Fox admitted (p. 371) that Maret did not think himself authorized to negotiate. See, too, Bland Burges in "Auckland Journals," ii, 493. I cannot agree with Mr. Oscar Browning ("Varennes, etc.," 198), and Mr. J. L. le B. Hammond ("Fox," 258) as to the importance of Maret's "mission." Lecky (vi, 126) also overrates it, in my judgement. [190] "Dropmore P.," ii, 322. [191] "Auckland Journals," ii, 465. [192] "Moniteur," 29th November 1792. [193] Maret stated that "M. Chauvelin had shamefully deceived the Executive Council, and that nothing but misrepresentations and falsehoods had marked his despatches since he lost all hope of remaining in this country" (Miles, "Corresp.," ii, 62). [194] Wilberforce urged this ("Life," ii, 13). [195] "Dropmore P.," ii, 339, 351, 378. CHAPTER V THE FLEMISH CAMPAIGN (1793) The war is not only unavoidable, but, under the circumstances of the case, absolutely necessary to the existence of Great Britain and Europe.--PITT, _Speech of 11th March, 1793_.