standing his numerous and brilliant sue

 cesses, was for him, following the ex- pressions of the biographer, like de-

 youring wound, which fed on the purest substance of his armies, disquieted his

 days of pfosperitY ,aad was soon to bring humiliation over his days Of reyefses.

 Austria, thinking 10 have found.the fa- yorable moment, to etlaee the disgrace Of the treaty of Presburg, while great part ofthe French forces were occupied in Spain, suddenly invaded the Bavari- an territory. Napoleon jeff Paris, April

 18th, ls09; and by a reaction, as rapid as the Austrian agg aggression had been nn- expected, not having troops at his dis posal, except in inferior numbers. and almost all of the Germanie eoHfedera- ton, opened the campaign on the 18th, beat the archduke Charles, OH the 23d, at Ratisbon, and entered Vienna on the

 I2th of May. 4 bloody and indecisiye battle was fought, on the a22d, Oil the plains of Essling, on the left bank of the Danube. The French armies perform ed prodigies of valor. Napoleon there lost one oif his most faithful companions in arms, his sineerest friend Marshal Lannes. Theyictory of Nagram, gained the 9th of July, placed the Austrian monarchy entirely at the disposal of the eonqueror. Whether from moderatiol or from wise foresight, Napoleon did noi abuse his fortune; and peace was signed, October l4th. During the suspension of arms which preceded this treaty with Austria, France was governed from the castle of Sehenbfunn, where Napoleon established his head quarters. It was not the first time that he affected 10 date the decrees of the interior administra- ton of Eis empire from the royal resi- denees of monarchs, with whom he had made war. On his return to France. he caused his marriage with Josephine Beauharaais, whom he had espoused in l796, to be dissolved; to contract new union with the arch duchess Maria

 Louisa, daughter of the emperor of Austria. This alliance was celebrated at St. Cloud, the ist of April, lS0l.- Napoleon had restord to the Catholic religion. a great part of it's lustre, by the eoaeofdai made with Pope Plus VI, 1851. But he still had quarrels with the clergy, who seemed to put forth in this struggle the frmness and eircum- speetion, which are constituents of the religious contests of the interior, 1t is sufficient to say, that an imperial decree of the l7th of May, 1909, took at first from the successor of St. Peter the tenn porai sovereignty Of Rome; and that a decree of the Senate, on the oth Of I eb. ruary, united the capital of the Chris tian world, as well as the contiguous es- tates of the church, to the French Em- pire. In the same year, Holland and the ' alais underwent the same destiny. The Hanseatic cities lost their indepen- dence in ISIi; and the title of king of Rome given by Napoleon to his son, born of Maria Louisa, annouficed, how much his union with the daughter of Francis II, (who himself had not yet of hciallly fenouced the title ot king of the Romans,) had exalted his ambition.- However a council of the French clergy decided by it's resistance the ambitious views to unite the two powers, spiritual and temporal, in his hands. Russia, yielding to the counsels of the English government, disposed herself to resume arms, in 1872. Napoleon chose to be beforehand with her. He drew more closely his alliance with Prussia and Austria, and declared war first against the Emperor Alexander; and gave as a pretext for it, the re-establshment of the kingdom oi Poland. The Neimen was crossed. The battle of Smolensk opened to the aggressor the route to Moscow. The battle of Moskwa gave him the ancient capital of the Musco- yite empire. He entered, the llth of September, to see it soon afterin a blaze, kindled by its own inhabitants. The

 l7th of October commenced the most terrible and disastrous retreat, known in history, during which conspiracy burst forth in Paris, to overturn the throne of the monarch, already yanquish

 ed by the elements. The 3d of Dec.

 Napoleon transferred the command ol

 the deplorable remains of his army, for

 merly so menacing, to the king of Ma

 ples, Murat; and, on the Sth he arrived

 at Paris, where he caused himself to bt

 felicitated by all the authorities. The

 theatre of war was transferred, in 1913

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