only enemy that had been able to triumph over his genius, and the
valour of Frenchmen. The senate, the magistrates, all those public
bodies and functionaries who had the means of approaching the throne,
now crowded to its footsteps with addresses full of adulation yet more
audacious than they had ever before ventured on. Tho voice of applause,
congratulation, and confidence, re-echoed from every quarter, drowned
the whispers of suspicion, resentment, and natural sorrow. Every
department of the public service appeared to be animated with a spirit
of tenfold activity. New conscriptions were called for and yielded.
Regiments arrived from Spain and from Italy. Every arsenal resounded
with the preparation of new artillery--thousands of horses were
impressed in every province. Ere many weeks had elapsed. Napoleon found
himself once more in a condition to take the field with not less than
350,000 soldiers. Such was the effect of his new appeal to the national
feelings of this great and gallant people.

Meanwhile the French garrisons dispersed over the Prussian territory
were wholly incompetent to overawe that oppressed and insulted nation,
now burning with the settled thirst and the long-deferred hope of
vengeance. The king interposed, indeed, his authority to protect the
soldiers of Napoleon from popular violence; but it presently became
manifest that their safety must depend on their concentrating themselves
in a small number of fortified places; and that even if Frederick
William had been cordially anxious to preserve his alliance with France,
it would soon be impossible for him to resist the unanimous wishes of
his people. Murat was already weary of his command. He found himself
thwarted and controlled by the other generals, none of whom respected
his authority; and one of whom, when he happened to speak of himself in
the same breath with the sovereigns of Austria and Prussia, answered
without ceremony, "You must remember that these are kings by the grace
of God, by descent, and by custom; whereas you are only a king by the
grace of Napoleon, and through the expenditure of French blood." Murat
was moreover jealous of the extent to which his queen was understood to
be playing the sovereign in Naples, and he threw up his command; being
succeeded by Eugene Beauharnois, and insulted anew by Napoleon himself,
in a general order which announced this change, and alleged as its
causes, the superior military skill of the viceroy, an