CHAPTER XIX.

REIGN OF GEORGE III. (_continued_).

The Ministry of "All the Talents"--Fox informs Napoleon of a supposed Scheme for his Assassination--Futile Negotiations for Peace--Windham's Army Bills--Resolutions against the Slave Trade passed--Inquiry into the Conduct of the Princess of Wales--British Expeditions: Stuart in Calabria--Battle of Maida--Continued Resistance of the Neapolitans--Recapture of the Cape of Good Hope--Expedition to Buenos Ayres--Naval Successes: Victories of Duckworth, Warren, and Hood--Cochrane's Daredevilry--Napoleon's subject Kingdoms--Prussia makes Complaints--Napoleon prepares for War--Murder of Palm--Isolation of Prussia--Imbecility of their Plan of Campaign--Battle of Jena--Napoleon in Berlin--He seizes Brunswick--Complete Subjugation of Germany--Settlement of Germany--The Berlin Decrees--Napoleon rouses the Poles--Campaign against Benningsen--Death of Fox--Ministerial Changes--Votes in Supply--An Administrative Scandal--Abolition of the Slave Trade--Measures of Roman Catholic Relief--Dismissal of the Grenville Ministry--The Duke of Portland's Cabinet--Hostile Motions in Parliament--The General Election--Irish Coercion Bills--Failure of the Expeditions planned by the late Ministry: Buenos Ayres--The Expedition to the Dardanelles--Expedition to Alexandria--Attack on Rosetta--Withdrawal of the Expedition--War between Russia and Turkey--Secret Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit--Bombardment of Copenhagen and Capture of the Danish Fleet--Seizure of Heligoland--The Campaign in Europe--Battle of Eylau--Benningsen's Retreat--Napoleon on the Vistula--Fall of Dantzic--Battle of Friedland--Alexander resolves to make Peace--The Meeting on the Niemen--Treaty of Tilsit. 516