. History of the wars of the French revolution, from the breaking out of the war, in 1792, to the restoration of a general peace, in 1815 : comprehending the civil history of Great Britain and France, during that period. ;%\S :4;. ??.•-. ? V .?& PM^CT KDITTOTLTSOIFF /-u. chap, xvill.] OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 389 enemies of the conqueror of Austerlitz and Friedland, gather-ing strength as they advanced, and animated by a successionof triumphs, were at length enabled to execute an awful retri-bution for all the humiliation they had experienced, and allthe wrongs they had suffered. The prin
. History of the wars of the French revolution, from the breaking out of the war, in 1792, to the restoration of a general peace, in 1815 : comprehending the civil history of Great Britain and France, during that period. ;%\S :4;. ??.•-. ? V .?& PM^CT KDITTOTLTSOIFF /-u. chap, xvill.] OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 389 enemies of the conqueror of Austerlitz and Friedland, gather-ing strength as they advanced, and animated by a successionof triumphs, were at length enabled to execute an awful retri-bution for all the humiliation they had experienced, and allthe wrongs they had suffered. The principal article of the treaty oi Tilsit was that bywhich Russia bound herself to accede to the continental sys-tem, and to exclude from her ports all British manufacturesand colonial produce.^ On this article Bonaparte laid somuch stress, that he was willing to purchase the acquiescenceof Russia by foregoing all the advantages of his victory overher. Finding all direct efforts to subjugate Great Britainimpracticable, he resolved on measures for gradually exhaust-ing her resources ; but while his edicts were limited in theiroperation to the states over which he exercised a direct con-trol, they were fo
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