THE 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
For the Year 1806. 
THE 
: HISTORY 
OF 
E.U.R OP E. 
CHAP. I. 
State of Europe, at the Commencement of 1806.—Consequences of the Battle 
of Trafalgar.— Animosity of Bonaparte against England.—Probability of 
Invasion.—Effects of the disastrous Coalition of 1805.—Ministry of Eng- 
land.—Meeting of Parliament.—Speech from the Throne.—Address.— 
Amendment read, but not moved.—Last Iliness and Death of Mr. Pitt.— 
Remarks on some Parts of his Character—Honours rendered to his 
Memory. 
4 Bee situation of Europe at the 
commencement of 1806 was 
unexampled in history. Two rival 
nations had acquired, not merely a 
deeided preponderance, but an ab- 
solute and uncontrouled dominion, 
the one over theseas, the other over 
the land. If the battle of Auster- 
litz had confirmed the military supe- 
riority of France over other na- 
tions, and left her without a rival 
on the continent, the victory of 
Trafalgar had no less decisively es- 
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tablished the naval superiority of 
England, and crowned all her for- 
mer victories on the ocean. The 
accumulated fruits of four years 
persevering labour and painful ine 
dustry, on the part of France and 
her dependencies, to form and col. 
Ject a navy, fit to cope with the 
maritime forces of England, had 
been swept away and annihilated 
in a single action. The importance 
of such a victory, at such a crisis, 
to England, cannot be easily exag- 
: gerated, 
