. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rev. and enl. with portraits. example given to the menof power who had risen to replace the theorists of theRevolution. The France that would offer itself inexpiation of monarchical crimes, the regenerator ofpeoples, the expounder of Utopias, was no more. Firmand erect as her ruler, she appeared no longer as anenchantress, but as a Bellona; herself regenerate, she wasdefiant of the unregenerate d3Tiasties, which retainedbut a single high quahty: they were the only outwardexpression of continental nationahty. These strained relations between the two great West-
. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rev. and enl. with portraits. example given to the menof power who had risen to replace the theorists of theRevolution. The France that would offer itself inexpiation of monarchical crimes, the regenerator ofpeoples, the expounder of Utopias, was no more. Firmand erect as her ruler, she appeared no longer as anenchantress, but as a Bellona; herself regenerate, she wasdefiant of the unregenerate d3Tiasties, which retainedbut a single high quahty: they were the only outwardexpression of continental nationahty. These strained relations between the two great West-ern powers were the natural consequence of their antip-odal interests, and of the fact that neither was yetexhausted by war. Speaking of the treaty of Amienssoon after it was signed, George III said, I call thisan experimental peace; it is nothing else. It was adouble experiment. How far would Bonaparte curbhis ambition? How far would England surrender hercontrol of European commerce? It soon became clearthat a conciliatory temper existed on neither side, and. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, FIRST CONSUL From the Iaiiitid^ by [eaii-Aui?uste-DoiiiiTii.]ii r-^ented to the city uf IJiye liv Napoleon in 1806. This i-. lor nliich p,,seil. \,c one ol tlit^ !c ^T. 33] ENGLAND AND FRANCE 277 that the so-called peace was merely a truce. Moreover,Bonaparte, not long after the arrival of Lord Whitworth,came to feel that the truce would be a short one. Ac-cordingly he recalled from London the too pacific Otto,replacing him in December by General conviction was assured by the language which theEnglish ambassador used to Talleyrand in interval of peace, short as it was, had so confirmedBonaparte in the good graces of the French that helikewise felt able to dismiss three other pubHc servantswho seemed unwiUing to accept the new state of abso-lute control by the First Consul. These were Fouche,Roederer, and Bourrienne: the first a shrewd, unscrupu-lous,
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