. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . f Napo-leons death. The people sighed and longed for peace; thoughtfulminds looked toward the future with gloomy forebodings. Talley-rand, especially, since the burning of Moscow, had given up tliecause of Napoleon as lost; not that the emperor could not still byprudence have saved himself, but he knew that this was a (jualitythe emperor did not jjossess. Napoleon continued to be controlledby the feeling that he could not venture to make peace after a defeat,if he would not destroy in tlie eyes of his ji
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . f Napo-leons death. The people sighed and longed for peace; thoughtfulminds looked toward the future with gloomy forebodings. Talley-rand, especially, since the burning of Moscow, had given up tliecause of Napoleon as lost; not that the emperor could not still byprudence have saved himself, but he knew that this was a (jualitythe emperor did not jjossess. Napoleon continued to be controlledby the feeling that he could not venture to make peace after a defeat,if he would not destroy in tlie eyes of his jieople the halo uponwhich his sway reposed. The speech from the throne with which,on February 14, he opened the legislative body amid a specially pomp-ous ceremonial, overflowed with confident and inflexible determina-tion. First aj)peared the proposition that the empire could neversuffer to be torn from it the territories that had been joined toFrance by decrees of the senate,—the States of the Church, Tuscany,Piedmont, Holland, and tlie thirty-second military division. The PLATE a lithoKraph by Xiiel Bertraml : painling by .Jacqiu-s Daviil ? 17-1S-182.)). History of Alt ;. IV;/, AI7A. iJiigc J2i. NAPOLEONS DEMANDS UPON PRUSSIA. 229 subjects of these recently acquired countries, he assured them, viedvntli the inhabitants of old France in devotion to his person. Forproof that the resources of France vrere more than sufficient to en-able her to make head against every enemy, he sketched a picture ofthe condition of the country under the imperial administration, whichwas as absurd as it was arbitrary and decei)tive. In such a disposition the emperor was found by Krusemark whenhe delivered to liim, on January 15, the kings reply to his Dresdenletter. This showed, indeed, a willingness to hold fast to the Frenchaluance, but desired, as an indispensable condition of further sup-plies, a payment on account of the money that had been s
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