CONTENTS. 
CHAP. IX. 
Negotiations for Pcace between England and France—Circumstances which 
led to the first Overture from France—Mr. Fox proposes that Russia 
should be a Party to the Negotiation—Objections of M. Talleyrand to the 
Intervention of _Russia—Discussions on this Subject, and Failure of the 
~ Negotiation—Second Overture from the l'rench Government through Lord 
VYarmouth—Favourable Nature of the Terms proposed—Minute of Lord 
Yarmouth, containing the Particulars of his Conversation with M. Tal- 
leyrand—Return of Lord Yarmouth to Paris—French retract their former 
Offers—Impression which their shuffling Conduct makes on the English Mi- 
- mistry, and particularly on Mr. Fox—His Unwillingness to give up Sicily— 
Ir@tructions to Lord Yarmouth—M. D’Oubril signs a separate Peace for 
Russia— Lord Yarmouth produces his full Powers—Resolution to send 
Lord Lauderdale to Paris— Joint Representation to the French Negotia- 
tors from Lord Lauderdale and Lord Yarmouth—Delays created by the 
French Negociators—Emperor of Russia refuses to ratify D'Oubril’s 
Treaty—W hereupon the French are ready to give more favourable Terms 
to England—But the English Minister refuses to sign any but a provisions 
al Treaty without the Concurrence of Russia—Violence and Impatience of 
Bonaparte moderated by his Ministers—Final Conference of Lord Lau- 
derdale with M.Champagny—Mistake of supposing that the Negotiation 
broke off on Account of the Refusal of the French te cede Dalmatia to the 
Russians—Review and justification of the Conduct of theEnglish Cabinet 
throughout the Negotiation—Reception of the News of the Failure of the 
Negotiation in England—Account of D’Oubril’s Treaty—Favourable 
Disposition of the new Russian Cabinet towards England. * - 172 
CHAP. X. 
Unfitness of the Duke of Brunswick to be Generalissimo of the Prussian 
| Army—-Position of the Prussians before the Battle of Auerstadt—Of the 
French—Defeat of the Prussian Left and Death of Prince Lewis of 
~ Prussia—French get Possession of the Prussian Magazines—Battle of 
~ Auerstadt—Loss of the Prussians tn that fatal Actton—Errors of their 
Generals—Surrender of Erfurt—Defeat of Kalkreuth in attempting to 
- retreat over the Hertz Mountains—Defeat of the Prussian Reserve under 
Prince Eugene of Wirtemberg—Release of the Saxon Prisoners and 
” Armistice between France and Saxrony—King of Prussia escapes across the 
Oder—Bonaparte-enters Berlin—His Conduct at Berlin and Potzdam— 
. Capture of Prince Hohenlohe’s Armiyj— Retreat of General Blucher to 
Lubeck—That City taken by Storm, and the Remains of Blucher’s Army 
forced to lay down their Arms—Bad Defence of the Prussian Vortresses— 
Surrender of Spandau, Stettin, Custrin, Magdeburg, Hameln, and Nieu- 
burg. 
