Baltic, where some English vessels received him.
Germany, in apparent tranquillity, awaited the result of the
negotiations of Vienna.

Napoleon, a few days after he returned from Moravia to Schoenbrunn,
escaped narrowly the dagger of a young man, who rushed upon him in the
midst of all his staff, at a grand review of the Imperial Guard.
Berthier and Rapp threw themselves upon him, and disarmed him at the
moment when his knife was about to enter the Emperor's body. Napoleon
demanded what motive had actuated the assassin. "What injury," said he,
"have I done to you?" "To me, personally, none," answered the youth,
"but you are the oppressor of my country, the tyrant of the world; and
to have put you to death would have been the highest glory of a man of
honour." This enthusiastic youth, by name Stabbs, son of a clergyman of
Erfurt, was, justly--no doubt--condemned to death, and he suffered with
the calmness of a martyr.

Buonaparte led at Schoenbrunn nearly the same course of life to which he
was accustomed at the Tuileries; seldom appearing in public; occupied
incessantly with his ministers and generals. The length to which the
negotiations with Austria were protracted excited much wonder; but he
had other business on hand besides his treaty with the Emperor Francis,
and that treaty had taken a very unexpected shape.

It was during his residence at Schoenbrunn that a quarrel, of no short
standing, with the Pope reached its crisis. The very language of the
Consular Concordat sufficiently indicated the reluctance and pain with
which the head of the Romish church acquiesced in the arrangements
devised by Buonaparte, for the ecclesiastical settlement of France; and
the subsequent course of events, but especially in Italy and in Spain,
could hardly fail to aggravate those unpleasant feelings. In Spain and
in Portugal, the resistance to French treachery and violence was mainly
conducted by the priesthood; and the Pope could not contemplate their
exertions without sympathy and favour. In Italy, meantime, the French
Emperor had made himself master of Naples, and of all the territories
lying to the north of the papal states; in a word, the whole of the
peninsula was his, excepting only that, narrow central stripe which
still acknowledged the temporal sovereignty of the Roman Pontiff. This
state of things was necessarily followed by incessant efforts on the
part of Napoleon to procure from the Pope a hearty acquiescence in the