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trusted that, under him, the internal state of the king- 
=~ dom would be quiet, and they would at length be freed 
© D. 1805. from a rapid succession of tyrants. 
Bett'c of 
Austerlitz, 
Nev. 27. 
But there was another circumstance that reconciled 
the French le to a military government,—from the 
extension and long duration of the military system, a 
large portion of the population were interested in it. 
Their relations and friends were in the army ; and if 
France were to become pacific, or if her. government 
were not military, they would be thrown useless and un- 
supported on the world. Thus the same causes, which 
in part contributed to produce the military successes of 
the French, operated to render them fit subjects for a 
military government; and the Revolution, by increasing 
and calling into more energetic and general action their 
love of glory, as well as by destroying all the habits of 
settled and regular life, also fi them for a govern- 
ment which would cherish and flatter that love, and 
indulge their restless and irregular habits. 
We shall defer at present the consideration of the 
effects on the character and condition of the French 
produced by the Revolution, as some of these effects 
were greatly heightened by the —— of the system 
which Bonaparte established and acted upon after he 
became Emperor ; and therefore the subject will after- 
wards fall more properly under our notice, We shall 
now resume the hi S 
Moreau had long been the object of Bonaparte’s ha- 
tred and jealousy ; but no opportunity occurred of crush- 
ing or removing him, till the spring of 1804, when, in con- 
sequence of an accusation that he was implicatedin a de- 
sign torestore the Bourbons, he was seized and sentenced 
to be imprisoned ; but his popularity with the army was 
80 great, that Bonaparte commuted this sentence to ba- 
nishment for life to the United States of America. 
Symptoms of approaching hostilities with Germany 
had been long apparent in France ; but did 
not leave Paris to put himself at the head of his armies 
till the 24th of ber 1805. ' As soon as he reach- 
ed this place, he issued a manifesto denouncing what he 
called the third coalition, which he attributed to the 
gold and hatred of England. » As the ions and 
result of this war are detailed in the History of Austria, 
we shall run rapidly over them here. The French army 
consisted of five dvidons: they crossed the Rhine the 
day after —— reached Strasburg. Hostilities 
commenced on 7th, when the Austrians a ore 
feated in attempting to the passage 
the French across the bridge of Donawert. The iain 
Austrian army was under General Mack’; but his con- 
duct, either from incapacity, or from the interference 
of the council of war at Vienna, was such, that the 
French advanced rapidly with upwards of 200,000 
men, while he had not ve 80,000. Swabia, Fran- 
conia, and Bavaria, were overrun in a very short time. 
Mack was entrenched at Ulm, where, on the 15th day 
of October, the 3d day after firing the first shot, his 
army was so dreadfully beaten, that he was obliged to 
espitulate on the 17th, The Archduke Charles, at the 
head of 95,000 men, in vain endeavoured to prevent 
this dreadful disaster, by a id march from Italy ; 
but coming up too late, a not being sufficiently 
strong to oppose Bonaparte, the latter pushed on to- 
wards Vienna, which he entered on the 12th of Novem- 
ber. Austria, having been joined by Russia, resolved 
to hazard the fate of another battle, which was fought 
at Austerlitz on the 27th of November. The engage- 
ment commenced at sunrise; in less than an hour, the 
left wing of the allies was entirely cut off; and this 
FRANCE. 
was the forerunner of their total defeat. Onthe Sthof — 
December an armistice took place, which was followed 
by the treaty of Presburg, on the 26th of that month: 
Bw treaty, France was confirmed 
as King of Italy ; and to this kingdom the Ex 
Germany ceded his part of the states of Venice. ‘The 
succeeded in destroying, and thus adding to the of 
France. The whole peninsula of Italy had been 
to the French empire; Russia had been obliged to re- 
treat to her own territories 5 Austria had been saved 
Amiens, 
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French empire at thi iod were described. 
the 110 departments of Fr 
the protection of the Imperial 
Venice, Istria, Dalmatia, and Naples. The 
France were, Bavaria, Wirtem » and | 
sides several other of the principal powers in’ 
Each succeeding coalition whi a had 
had only increased the te om the territory 
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Fy inthe year 1806, Mr Fox became Prime Mi- 
nister of Britain, in 
Pitt, and he immediately agen to put into execution 
such measures as he thought were likely to bring 
a peace with France, the object that had always been 
nearest his heart. The particulars of this are 
given in the History of Brrrain, and need not 
be repeated here. It is sufficient to observe, that it did 
not produce ; that Russia refused to ratify the 
treaty which her minister had made with France ; and 
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