tilities. Battle of Hohenlinden. _ Other Battles-The

Austrians agree to a separate Peace. - Treaty of Lune-

ville. Convention between France and the United

States. The Queen of Naples repairs to Petersburgh-

Paul receives her with cordiality, and applies in her be-

half to Buonaparte_His Envoy received at Paris with

the utmost distinction, and the Royal Family of Naples

saved for the present. - Rome restored to the authority of

the Pope. Napoleon demands of the King of Spain to

declare War against Portugal. - Olivenza and Almeida

taken. Malta, after a Blockade of Two Years, obliged

to submit to the English,...

CHAP. XXI. - Internal Government of France. -General

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Attachment to the Chief Consul.-Plot to remove him by

Assassination- Defeated. - Vain hopes of the Royalists,

that Napoleon would restore the Bourbons.-Infernal

Machine It fails. - Suspicion first falls on the Republi-

cans. The actual Conspirators executed. - Use made by

Buonaparte of the Conspiracy to consolidate Despotism.

-System of Police. -Fouché-His Skill, Influence, and

Power.-Apprehension entertained by the Chief Consul

of the effects of Literature. - Persecution of Madame de

Staël. The Concordat. - Plan for a general System of

Jurisprudence. Amnesty granted to the Emigrants.-

Plans of Public Education. - Hopes of a General Peace, 148

CHAP. XXII. - Return to the external Relations of

France. Her universal Ascendency.-Napoleon's ad-

vances to the Emperor Paul.-Plan of destroying the

British Power in India. Right of Search at Sea.-

Death of Paul. - Its effects on Buonaparte. Affairs of

Egypt.-Assassination of Kleber. - Menou appointed to

succeed him.-British Army lands in Egypt. Battle

and Victory of Alexandria. Death of Sir Ralph Aber-

cromby. General Hutchinson succeeds him. The

French General Belliard capitulates-as does Menou.-

War in Egypt brought to a victorious conclusion.......... 185

CHAP. XXIII.- Preparations for the Invasion of Britain.

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--Nelson put in command of the Sea. - Attack of the

Boulogne Flotilla.-Pitt leaves the Ministry-succeeded

by Mr Addington. -Negotiations for Peace. Just pun-

ishment of England, in regard to the conquered Settle-

ments of the Enemy. -Forced to restore them all, save

Ceylon and Trinidad.-Malta is placed under the guaran-

tee of a Neutral Power. Preliminaries of Peace signed.

-Joy of the English Populace, and doubts of the better

classes. Treaty of Amiens signed. The ambitious pro-

jects of Napoleon, nevertheless, proceed without inter-

ruption.-Extension of his power in Italy. He is ap-

pointed Consul for life, with the power of naming his

Successor. -His Situation at this period,........

CHAP. XXIV. - Different Views entertained by the Eng-

lish Ministers and the Chief Consul of the effects of the

Treaty of Amiens. Napoleon, misled by the Shouts of

a London Mob, misunderstands the Feelings of the Peo-

ple of Great Britain. - His continued encroachments on

the Independence of Europe. - His conduct to Switzer-

land. Interferes in their Politics, and sets himself up,

uninvited, as Mediator in their concerns.-Ney enters

Switzerland at the head of 40,000 men. The patriot,

Reding, disbands his Forces, and is imprisoned.-Switz-

erland is compelled to furnish France with a subsidiary

Army of 16,000 Troops. The Chief Consul adopts the

title of Grand Mediator of the Helvetic Republic,....... 216

201

CHAP. XXV.-Increasing Jealousies betwixt France and

England Encroachments on the part of the former.-

Instructions given by the First Consul to his Commercial

Agents. Orders issued by the English Ministers. Pel-

tier's celebrated Royalist Publication, L'Ambigu. Pel-

tier tried for a Libel against the First Consul-found

Guilty. Angry Discussions respecting the Treaty of

Amiens-Malta._Report of Sebastiani-Resolution of

the British Government. - Conferences betwixt Buona-

parte and Lord Whitworth. -Britain declares War against

France on 18th May, 1803.............

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CHAP. XXVI.-St Domingo. - The Negroes split into

parties under different Chiefs. Toussaint L'Ouver-

ture the most distinguished of these. - Appoints a

Consular Government. - France sends an Expedition

against St Domingo, under General Leclerc, in Decem-

ber 1801. Toussaint submits. - He is sent to France,

where he dies. The French are assaulted by the Ne-

groes. Leclerc is succeeded by Rochambeau. The

French finally obliged to capitulate to an English Squa-

dron.-Buonaparte's scheme to consolidate his power..

The Consular Guard augmented. Legion of Honour.-

Opposition formed against the Consular Government. -

Application to the Count de Provence (Louis XVIII.) 263

CHAP. XXVII.-Renewal of the War. England lays an

Embargo on French Vessels-Napoleon retaliates by de-

taining British Subjects. -Effects of this unprecedented

Measure.-Hanover and other. places occupied by the

French. Scheme of Invasion renewed. - Napoleon's

Preparations. Defensive Measures of England, ..

285

CHAP. XXVIII.-Disaffection begins to arise against Na-

poleon among the Soldiery.-Purpose of setting up

Moreau against him. - Character of Moreau.-Causes of

his Estrangement from Buonaparte.-Pichegru. The

Duke d'Enghien. -Georges Cadoudal, Pichegru, and

other Royalists, landed in France. Desperate Enterprise

of Georges-Defeated. - Arrest of Moreau-of Pichegru

-and Georges. Captain Wright.-Duke d'Enghien

seized at Strasburg-hurried to Paris-transferred to

Vincennes-Tried by a Military Commission-Con-

demned and Executed. - Universal Horror of France

and Europe. Buonaparte's Vindication of his Conduct

-His Defence considered.-Pichegru found dead in his

Prison-Attempt to explain his Death by charging him

with Suicide. Captain Wright found with his Throat

cut.-A similar attempt made. -Georges and other Con-

spirators Tried-Condemned and Executed. Royal-

ists silenced.-Moreau sent into Exile,....

305

CHAP. XXIX. - General indignation of Europe in conse-

quence of the Murder of the Duke d'Enghien.-Russia

complains to Talleyrand of the violation of Baden; and,

along with Sweden, remonstrates in a Note laid before

the German Diet-but without effect. - Charges brought

by Buonaparte against Mr Drake, and Mr Spencer

Smith-who are accordingly dismissed from the Courts

of Stuttgard and Munich. - Seizure-imprisonment-

and dismissal of Sir George Rumbold, the British

Envoy at Lower Saxony.-Treachery attempted against

Lord Elgin, by the Agents of Buonaparte-Details-

Defeated by the exemplary Prudence of that Nobleman.

-These Charges brought before the House of Com-

mons, and peremptorily denied by the Chancellor of the

Exchequer,

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LIFE

OF

NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

CHAPTER XVI.

General rejoicing on the return of Buonaparte. Advances made to him on all sides. - Napoleon coalesces with Siêyes. -Revolution of the 18th Brumaire (Nov. 9). Clashing Views of the Councils of Ancients, and the Five Hundred. -Barras and his Colleagues resign.-Proceedings of the Councils on the 18th and 19th-Sittings removed from Paris to St Cloud. - Commotion in the Council of Five Hundred.-Napoleon menaced and assaulted, and finally, extricated by his Grenadiers.-Lucien Buonaparte, the President, retires from the Hall-Declares the Council dissolved. Provisional Consular Government of Buonaparte, Siêyes, and Ducos.

BUONAPARTE had caused himself to be preceded by an account of his campaigns in Africa and Asia, in which the splendid victory over the Turks at Aboukir enabled him to gloss over his bad success in Syria, the total loss of his fleet, and the danger of Malta, which was closely besieged by the English. Still, however, these despatches could never have led any one to expect the sudden return of a