This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... mission could have no effect. Napoleon appears to have thought that the logical sequence of previous statements made in Opposition would lead the Whig Ministry to make peace on the terms he might choose, and at the same time condone the rapacity of his intentions. He talked of employing the means entrusted to him by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... mission could have no effect. Napoleon appears to have thought that the logical sequence of previous statements made in Opposition would lead the Whig Ministry to make peace on the terms he might choose, and at the same time condone the rapacity of his intentions. He talked of employing the means entrusted to him by Providence for the purpose of asserting the liberties of the seas, of restoring commerce its liberty, and securing the repose and happiness of the world. This, moreover, at the very moment f when he was about to receive the English proposals. Mr. Fox kept two leading ideas in his mind whilst conducting these negotiations. J They were, firstly, to retain our hold on Sicily, which the King of Naples, as our faithful ally, had just reason to expect us to do; and secondly, to forward our Russian connection and alliance. This, as we have seen, he did not propose to do by means of subsidies. In this tendency to support the Emperor Alexander the Foreign Secretary may have possessed an incomplete forecast of what actually happened in 1812. It was obvious that efforts undertaken in a struggle near the Muscovite frontier must have proved more exhausting to the French armies than campaigns on the Rhine or the Danube, and the distance from the base of operations, which Napoleon's genius could not lessen, must have occurred to Fox when he adhered to this alliance. Bacher, French Charge d'Afairs to the German Diet. t August 1806. I Life and Opinion of Earl Grey. It is desirable to give prominence to the fact that at no time of his extraordinary career were Napoleon's pretences more preposterous and ungovernable than at the moment when he was destined to have the mist removed from before his eyes as regards the true character of the new English Government. It...
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