^ T - 37-] DISPOSAL OF NAPOLEON. Ill 



armies occupied the territories which were the subject 

 of arrangement, compensation, and indemnity. By 

 the treaty, or, more correctly speaking, convention of 

 Paris, it was agreed (Ney and Caulaincourt represent- 

 ing Napoleon) that he should retain the title of Em- 

 peror, with the sovereignty of Elba ; that his family 

 should be princes; that he should have two millions 

 of francs a-year paid to him by France ; that Maria 

 Louisa should continue to be called Empress, and should 

 have the duchy of Parma, which was to descend to her 

 son. In consideration of these terms Napoleon re- 

 nounced for himself and his descendants all right of 

 sovereignty in France, Italy, and elsewhere. 



Castlereagh, on behalf of England, agreed to the 

 Elba and Parma parts ; but inasmuch as Great Britain 

 had never acknowledged Napoleon either as emperor 

 or as sovereign of France, he declined to be a party to 

 the treaty ; so that the parties to the convention of 

 Paris were Kussia, Austria, Prussia, Caulaincourt, and 

 Marshal Ney. 



All this took place in the beginning of April, and, 

 when disclosed, some of the terms excited no little 

 astonishment, more especially that which related to 

 the place of residence. Ney it was who suggested 

 Elba. Bonaparte himself asked for Corfu, which was 

 refused, because he might there disturb Turkey ! The 

 Allied sovereigns would have better secured their cap- 

 tive if they had sent him anywhere rather than to 

 Elba, for that island combined qualities unusually 

 favourable to intrigue or evasion. Close to Italy, at 

 that time hating the tyranny of her old masters ; easy 

 of communication with France through Italy and 

 Switzerland ; too far from the coast of France to be 



