CONTENTS. 



carried. — Bill brought ifi to indemnify Mr. Trotter in the House of Com- 

 mons. — Debate upon it in the House of Lords. — Carried in both- — Opposi- 

 tion to the Duke of AthoVs Bill in the House of Lords. — Ineffectual, — 

 Bill passed. — Mr. Windham moves for Copies of the Correspondence res- 

 pccting Captain fVright of the Vincenzo, note a Prisoner of War in 

 France,^- Agreed to. — King's Speech. — Session concludes. , 107 



CHAP. XII. 



History of P.urope.-^Preliminartj Observations. — Animosity of tits 

 French Emperor to England. — Exposition of the Affairs of that Countri/. 

 — Overture of Peace made by Bonaparte to the British Government. — 

 Reply thereto. — Anger of Bonaparte. — Manifestos against the Conduct 

 of En<rland. — ■Comments of the French Government. — Great apparent 

 Ere rtions made by France for the Invasion of England. — .State of the 

 Flotilla at Boulogne — And of the Army destined for that Purpose. — ■ 

 Activity of the Combined French and Spa'tish Navy. -^Farther Vieics of 

 Aggrandizement of Bonaparte.— Journey to Italy. — Crowned King of 

 Italy at Milan — And annexes Genoa to the French Empire. — Pt^eturns to 

 Paris. — lieviezcs his Army at Boidogne. — Dissati fact ion of the Indepen- 

 dent Pollers of Europe. — Treaty betzceen Great Britain and Poissia. — ^ 

 Object and Conditions thereof. — Accedence of Austria and Szceden. — 

 Fruitless Attempt x)f the Allied Powers to negociate with France. — An- 

 vexation of Genua to the French Empire. — Remonstrance of the Court of 

 l^ienna thereon.. — Rcplt) of the French Government — JVhich remonstrates 

 in its turn. — Declaration of the Russian Minister at Vienna. — Strongly in- 

 dicative of approaching th'sldities. — -Second and stronger Remonstrance of 

 Vienna against the French Encroachments. — Immediate Change in the Mea- 

 sures of France. —Abandonment of her Project of invading Great Bri- 

 tain — And Preparations, bij Bonaparte, to attack the allied Powers. — 

 French Xote to the Diet of Ratis'wn. — Reply 'f Ati-'itria. — War inevi- 

 table. — Preparations therefor. — Injudicious Conduct of Austria toxtiards 

 Bavaria. — Bonaparte addresses his Senate previously to his joining the 

 Army. — Decree in Consequence. — Bonaparte leaves Paris, and puts him- 

 self at the Head of his Troops. . i » 130 



Ohap. xiii. 



Historii of Europe continued.^— Route of the different Corps cf the French 

 Army to the Scene of Action — of Bertiadotte — Marmunt — Davoust — Soult 

 — Ney — Lannes — and of Murat, with the Reserve. — Passage of the 

 Rhine by the French Artillery. — Proclamation of the French Emperor — 

 and Address to his Army — w/dch he joins at Kchl. — Receives the Cojn- 

 pliments of the Electors of Badtn and IVirtemburg. — Junction of the French 

 and Bavarians. — March for the Danube. — General Position of the French 



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