r to engage
the Emperor to go to war with Bonaparte. Laharpe breathes nothing
but vengeance against Bonaparte, who, besides other injuries,
turned his back on him in public and would not speak to him.
Laharpe was warned of O'Connor's intended visit, and went to the
country to avoid seeing him: The Senator Garat is to go to Brest
with O'Connor to write a constitution for Ireland. O'Connor is
getting out of favor with the Irish in France; they begin to
suspect his ambitious and selfish views. There was a coolness
between Admiral Truguet and him for some time previous to
Truguet's return to Brest. Augereau had given a dinner to all the
principal officers of his army then at Paris. Truguet invited all
of them to dine with him, two or three days after, except
O'Connor. O'Connor told me he would never forgive him for it."

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VOLUME II

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CHAPTER XXII

ULM AND TRAFALGAR

"Napoleon is the only man in Europe that knows the value of
time."--Czartoryski.

Before describing the Continental campaign which shattered the old
European system to its base, it will be well to take a brief glance at
the events which precipitated the war of the Third Coalition. Even at
the time of Napoleon's rupture with England, his highhanded conduct
towards the Italian Republic, Holland, Switzerland, and in regard to
the Secularizations in Germany, had exposed him to the hostility of
Russia, Sweden, and Austria; but as yet it took the form of secret
resentment. The last-named Power, under the Ministry of Count Cobenzl,
had relapsed into a tame and undignified policy, which the Swedish
Ambassador at Vienna described as "one of fear and hope--fear of the
power of France, and hope to obtain favours from her."[1] At Berlin,
Frederick William clung nervously to neutrality, even though the
French occupation of Hanover was a threat to Prussia's influence in
North Germany. The Czar Alexander was, at present, wrapt up in home
affairs; and the only monarch who as yet ventured to show his dislike
of the First Consul was the King of Sweden. In the autumn of 1803
Gustavus IV. defiantly refused Napoleon's proposals for a
Franco-Swedish alliance, baited though they were with the offer of
Norway as an eventual prize for Sweden, and a subsidy for every
Swedish warship serving against England. And it was not the dislike of