| Collection | George IV Calendar as Prince, Regent and King |
| Description | Reporting on Napoleon and comparing him to Charles VIII of France: 'Ce que ce Roi avait eû la folie d'imaginer, Bonaparte a le pouvoir de l'executer'; Napoleon's plans for the Kingdom of Naples and Italy; that Napoleon is gambling that the threat of invading Britain will deflect the attention of other sovereigns allowing them to believe his attention is far away from their own states - but that the threat of invading Britain is no ruse. Dumouriez believes Napoleon does intend to do this but his priorities are to first to seize Portugal while threatening the southern and eastern coasts of Britain in collaboration with Holland's navy, and second to fix the fate of Italy by seizing Albania, Epirus, the two Dalmatians, and finally the whole of the Adriatic up to Trieste also invading the Tyrol and expelling the Austrians completely from Italy. This plan is due to be put into action next Spring and enclosing a map [missing]. Dumouriez warns against not preparing and advises consulting the Council of Vienna, mustering 100 000 men in the Tyrol and Venetian states as well as 25 000 men in Dalmatia and creating a flotilla to transport these men, to receive a loan of £5-6000 to mobilise this army, to make a treaty with England, to obtain assurances from Russia of a non-aggression pact concerning Prussia, to conclude a treaty with the King of Naples with the Emperor of Russia acting as a guarantor. |