CHAP. XX.--Napoleon offers, and the Austrian Envoy accepts, a new Treaty--The Emperor refuses it, unless England is included--Negotiations with England--fail--Renewal of the War--Armistice--Resumption of Hostilities--Battle of Hohenlinden--Other Battles--The Austrians agree to a separate Peace--Treaty of Luneville--Convention between France and the United States--The Queen of Naples repairs to Petersburgh--Paul receives her with cordiality, and applies in her behalf to Buonaparte--His Envoy received at Paris with the utmost distinction, and the Royal Family of Naples saved for the present--Rome restored to the authority of the Pope--Napoleon demands of the King of Spain to declare War against Portugal--Olivenza and Almeida taken--Malta, after a Blockade of Two Years, obliged to submit to the English, 324 CHAP. XXI.--Internal Government of France--General Attachment to the Chief Consul--Plot to remove him by Assassination--Defeated--Vain hopes of the Royalists, that Napoleon would restore the Bourbons--Infernal Machine--It fails--Suspicion first falls on the Republicans--The actual Conspirators executed--Use made by Buonaparte of the Conspiracy to consolidate Despotism--System of Police--Fouché--His Skill, Influence, and Power--Apprehension entertained by the Chief Consul of the effects of Literature--Persecution of Madame de Staël--The Concordat--Plan for a general System of Jurisprudence--Amnesty granted to the Emigrants--Plans of Public Education--Hopes of a General Peace, 337 CHAP. XXII.--Return to the external Relations of France--Her universal Ascendancy--Napoleon's advances to the Emperor Paul--Plan of destroying the British Power in India--Right of Search at Sea--Death of Paul--Its effects on Buonaparte--Affairs of Egypt--Assassination of Kleber--Menou appointed to succeed him--British Army lands in Egypt--Battle and Victory of Alexandria--Death of Sir Ralph Abercromby--General Hutchinson succeeds him--The French General Belliard capitulates--as does Menou--War in Egypt brought to a victorious Conclusion, 356