. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. only deferred. In every way he strives to awaken indignation and hatredagainst England. The alliance which has compelled him toturn his armies against his neighbors on the Continent, hecharacterizes as an unjust league fomented by the hatredand gold of England. He tells the soldiers of the GrandArmy that it is English gold which has transported theRussian army from the extremities of the universe to fightthem. He charges the horrors of Austerlitz upon the Eng-lish. May all the blood shed, may all these misfortunes,fall upon the perfidious islanders who have cau
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. only deferred. In every way he strives to awaken indignation and hatredagainst England. The alliance which has compelled him toturn his armies against his neighbors on the Continent, hecharacterizes as an unjust league fomented by the hatredand gold of England. He tells the soldiers of the GrandArmy that it is English gold which has transported theRussian army from the extremities of the universe to fightthem. He charges the horrors of Austerlitz upon the Eng-lish. May all the blood shed, may all these misfortunes,fall upon the perfidious islanders who have caused them!May the cowardly oligarchies of London support the con-sequences of so many woes! Erom now on, all the treatieshe makes are drawn up with a view to humbling the eternalenemies of the Continent. Negotiation for peace went on, it is true, in 1806, betweenthe two countries. Napoleon offered to return Hanoverand Malta. He offered several things which belonged toother people, but England refused all of his combinations; 191. THE QUEEN OF NAPLES AND MARIE MURAT. By Madame Vigee-Lebrun. This canvas, executed in 1807, is in the museumof Versailles. Caroline of Naples is represented with her eldest child, MarieLa;titia Josephe Murat, afterwards Countess Pepoli. 192 THE BERLIN DECREE 193 and when, a few days after Jena, he addressed his army,it was to tell them: We shall not lay down our arms untilwe have obliged the English, those eternal enemies of ournation, to renounce their plan of troubling the Continentand their tyranny of the seas. A month later—November 21, 1806—he proclaimed thefamous Decree of Berlin, his future policy towards GreatBritain. As she had shut her enemies from the sea, he wouldshut her from the land. The continental blockade, as thisstruggle of land against sea was called, was only using Eng-lands own weapon of war; but it was using it with a sweep-ing audacity, thoroughly Napoleonic in conception and inthe proposed execution. Henceforth, all communic
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