Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England . fitSIlHl, iHMlTTU iiittt ot*(i(ilatfibo. BLUCHER.(From an old engraving.) Ciudad Rodrigo 141 this was much aggravated by devices of a fraudulentkind, employed to make it less onerous to Franceand to Napoleons policy. The quarrel, too, withthe Pope had been embittered ; Pius VII. had ex-communicated his Imperial tyrant, and had indi-rectly challenged his temporal power by refusing toinstitute French bishops; the Emperor had hastilyconvened an episcopal council, and this had evenopenly sympathised with the impr
Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England . fitSIlHl, iHMlTTU iiittt ot*(i(ilatfibo. BLUCHER.(From an old engraving.) Ciudad Rodrigo 141 this was much aggravated by devices of a fraudulentkind, employed to make it less onerous to Franceand to Napoleons policy. The quarrel, too, withthe Pope had been embittered ; Pius VII. had ex-communicated his Imperial tyrant, and had indi-rectly challenged his temporal power by refusing toinstitute French bishops; the Emperor had hastilyconvened an episcopal council, and this had evenopenly sympathised with the imprisoned in France herself there were signs of weaknessand discontent which the most despotic of Gov-ernments could not conceal or suppress. England,supreme at sea, had destroyed French maritimecommerce; grass grew in the streets of Bordeauxand Marseilles ; several industries of importance werein decay, and the Continental System had stimu-lated French production in some directions to sucha dangerous extent that this had led to widespreadbankruptcy and distress. France,
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