ment!" &c.
]

[Footnote 48: This account was published _more than twenty years
afterwards_, in consequence of a pamphlet by Savary (Duke of Rovigo).]

[Footnote 49: About a year afterwards Captain Wright was found dead in
his dungeon in the Temple, with his throat cut from ear to ear. This
mystery has hitherto remained in equal darkness; but Buonaparte was far
from Paris at the period of Wright's death, and, under all the
circumstances of the case, there seems to be no reason for supposing
that he could have had any concern in that tragedy.]

[Footnote 50: _i.e._ Kill-king.]

CHAPTER XIX

New coalition against France--Sweden--Russia--Austria joins the
Alliance--Napoleon heads the Army in Germany--Ulm surrendered by
Mack--Vienna taken--Naval Operations--Battle of Trafalgar--Battle
of Austerlitz--Treaty of Presburg--Joseph Buonaparte King of
Naples--Louis Buonaparte King of Holland--Confederation of the
Rhine--New Nobility in France.

On the 27th of January, 1805, Napoleon, in his new character of Emperor,
addressed a letter (as he had done before at the commencement of his
Consulate) to King George III. in person; and was answered, as before,
by the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The new Emperor's
letter contained many well-turned sentences about the blessings of
peace, but no distinct proposition of any kind--least of all any hint
that he was willing to concede Malta. The English minister, however,
answered simply, that in the present state of relations between the
cabinet of St. James's and that of St. Petersburg, it was impossible for
the former to open any negotiation without the consent of the latter.

This sufficiently indicated a fact of which Napoleon had just suspicion
some time before. The murder of the Duke d'Enghien had been regarded
with horror by the young Emperor of Russia; he had remonstrated
vigorously, and his reclamations had been treated with indifference. The
King of Sweden, immediately after he heard of the catastrophe of
Vicennes, had made known his sentiments to the Czar: a strict alliance
had been signed between those two courts about a fortnight before
Napoleon wrote to the King of England; and it was obvious that the
northern powers had resolved to take part with Great Britain in her
struggle against France. The Consul now made the _Moniteur_ the vehicle
of continual abuse against the sovereigns of Russia and Sweden; and the
latter