. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. 1810 King Louis abdicated in favor of hisson and retired to Austria. Napoleon tried his best to per-suade him at least to return into French territory, but herefused. This break was the sadder because Louis was thebrother for whom Napoleon had really done most. Joseph was not happier than Louis. The Spanish warstill went on, and no better than in 1808. Joseph, hum-bled and unhappy, had even prayed to be freed of the throne. The relations with Sweden were seriously strained. Since1810 Bernadotte had been by adoption the crown prince ofthat country. Although he h
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. 1810 King Louis abdicated in favor of hisson and retired to Austria. Napoleon tried his best to per-suade him at least to return into French territory, but herefused. This break was the sadder because Louis was thebrother for whom Napoleon had really done most. Joseph was not happier than Louis. The Spanish warstill went on, and no better than in 1808. Joseph, hum-bled and unhappy, had even prayed to be freed of the throne. The relations with Sweden were seriously strained. Since1810 Bernadotte had been by adoption the crown prince ofthat country. Although he had emphatically refused, inaccepting the position, to agree never to take up arms againstFrance, as Napoleon wished him to do, he had later con-sented to the continental blockade, and had declared waragainst England; but this declaration both England andSweden considered simply as a fagon de parler. Napoleon,^conscious that Bernadotte was not carrying out the blockade,and irritated by his persistent refusal to enter into French. NAPOLEON IN HIS CABINET. THE CHILD AT HIS SIDE IS HIS SON, THE KING OF ROME. The manuscript on the floor of the cabinet bears the date 1811. Engravedby Weber, after Steuben. 234 TROUBLE WITH THE POPE 235 combinations, and pay tribute to carry on French wars, hadsuppressed his revenues as a French prince—Bernadotte hadbeen created Prince of Ponte-Corvo in 1806—had refusedto communicate with him, and when the King of Rome wasborn had sent back the Swedish decoration offered. Finally,in January, 1812, French troops invaded certain Swedishpossessions, and the country concluded an alliance withEngland and Russia. With Russia, the other half of the machine, the allyupon whom the great plan of Tilsit and Erfurt depended,there was such a bad state of feeling that, in 1811, it became?certain that war would result. Causes had been accumu-lating upon each side since the Erfurt meeting. The continental system weighed heavily on the interestsof Russia. The peopl
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