plan of Napoleon to sink
the memory of the Bourbon Monarchy, and revive the image of Charlemagne,
Emperor of the West.

[Footnote 51:

"Lamented hero! when to Britain's shore
Exulting Fame those awful tidings bore,
Joy's bursting shout in whelming grief was drowned
And Victory's self unwilling audience found;
On every brow the cloud of sadness hung;
The sounds of triumph died on every tongue.
Yet not the vows thy weeping country pays;
Not that high meed, thy mourning sovereign's praise,
Not that the great, the beauteous, and the brave
Bend in mute reverence o'er thy closing grave;
That with such grief as bathes a kindred bier
Collective nations mourn a death so dear;
Not these alone shall soothe thy sainted shade,
And consecrate the spot where thou art laid--
Not these alone!--but bursting thro' the gloom,
With radiant glory from thy trophied tomb,
The sacred splendour of thy deathless name
Shall grace and guard thy country's martial fame;
Far seen shall blaze the unextinguished ray,
A mighty beacon lighting glory's way--
With living lustre this proud land adorn,
And shine, and save, thro' ages yet unborn."[52]
]

[Footnote 52: "Ulm and Trafalgar," a poem, by the Rt. Honourable George
Canning.]

CHAPTER XX

Discontent of Prussia--Death of Pitt--Negotiation of Lords Yarmouth
and Lauderdale broken off--Murder of Palm, the bookseller--Prussia
declares War--Buonaparte heads the Army--Naumburg taken--Battle of
Jena--Napoleon enters Berlin--Fall of Magdeburg, &c.--Humiliation
of Prussia--Buonaparte's cruelty to the Duke of Brunswick--his
rapacity and oppression in Prussia.

The establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine rendered Napoleon,
in effect, sovereign of a large part of Germany; and seemed to have so
totally revolutionised Central Europe, that Francis of Austria declared
the Imperial Constitution at an end. He retained the title of Emperor as
sovereign of his own hereditary dominions; but "The Holy Roman Empire,"
having lasted full one thousand years, was declared to be no more; and
of its ancient influence the representative was to be sought for not at
Vienna, but at Paris.

The vacillating court of Berlin heard with much apprehension of the
formation of the Rhenish confederacy;[53] and with deep resentment of
its immediate consequence, the dissolution of the Germanic Empi