he restraints of discipline, they
gave signs that the petulance, timidity, and unruliness which had been
manifested in Poland and Prussia were not diminished.

Their Emperor, if his vision had been unclouded, would have
understood that endurance, suffering, and privation would make such
men an untrustworthy dependence in the hour of need. How changed he
was himself is clear from the fact that Bonaparte would never have
rested until his foe was disorganized and overpowered, while Napoleon
saw himself forced to treat with an opponent who, though beaten, was
still undaunted and active. If the victor had been fighting for life,
his position would have been morally strong; fighting as a
world-conqueror, it was illogical; fighting as equal with equal to
repel aggression, it was comprehensible. This last was the attitude
into which he was forced by the campaign of Aspern, Essling, Wagram.
Francis, whose power he had meant to crush, upon whom a few short
weeks before he had heaped insult and abuse, had turned out a most
dangerous foe. Technically conquered, it would not be well for his
opponent to try conclusions with him again in the still uncertain
position of the Napoleonic power. Rather reap the field secured, the
daunted conqueror reasoned, than risk devastation by grasping for
more. This, and no other, is the explanation of that remarkable
somersault in Napoleon's diplomacy which followed in the next few
weeks.

CHAPTER XVII

THE PEACE OF SCHOeNBRUNN[32]

[Footnote 32: See Majol de Lupe: Fournier: Gentz und der
Friede von Schoenbrunn in Deutsche Rundschau, tom. 44. Un pape
prisonnier a Savone, d'apres des documents inedits. In Le
Correspondant, 6 articles, du 10 mars au 25 mai. Clair: Hofer
et l'insurrection du Tyrol.]

Schill and the Duke of Brunswick -- Andreas Hofer -- The
Armistice of Znaim -- The Northern Powers Adhere to France --
Wellesley's Successes in the Peninsula -- The Walcheren
Expedition -- Negotiations for Peace -- Austria a Second-rate
Power -- Attempt on Napoleon's Life -- His Great Uneasiness --
The Tyrol Subdued -- The Pope a Prisoner.

Napoleon's course was probably somewhat influenced both by the
mutterings of national discontent in France and by the actual
insurrections which were taking place in Germany. Schill, after
leaving Berlin, had been successively harassed by the Dutch, the
Westphalians, and the Dane