LIFE OF NAPOLEON POCKET EDITION VOL. III. LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. VOL. 3 [Illustration: Hotel de Ville. Paris] EDINBURGH: A. & C. BLACK. 1876 CONTENTS. PAGE CHAP. XXV.--Increasing Jealousies betwixt France and England--Encroachments on the part of the former--Instructions given by the First Consul to his Commercial Agents--Orders issued by the English Ministers--Peltier's celebrated Royalist Publication, L'Ambigu--Peltier tried for a Libel against the First Consul--found Guilty--Angry Discussions respecting the Treaty of Amiens--Malta--Report of Sebastiani--Resolutions of the British Government--Conferences betwixt Buonaparte and Lord Whitworth--Britain declares War against France on 18th May, 1803, 1 CHAP. XXVI.--St. Domingo--The Negroes split into parties under different Chiefs--Toussaint L'Ouverture the most distinguished of these--Appoints a Consular Government--France sends an Expedition against St. Domingo, under General Leclerc, in December, 1801--Toussaint submits--He is sent to France, where he dies--The French are assaulted by the Negroes--Leclerc is succeeded by Rochambeau--The French finally obliged to capitulate to an English squadron--Buonaparte's scheme to consolidate his power--The Consular Guard augmented--Legion of Honour--Opposition formed against the Consular Government--Application to the Count de Provence (Louis XVIII.), 16 CHAP. XXVII.--Renewal of the War--England lays an Embargo on French Vessels--Napoleon retaliates by detaining British Subjects--Effects of this unprecedented Measure--Hanover and other places occupied by the French--Scheme of Invasion renewed--Napoleon's Preparations--Defensive Measures of England, 27 CHAP. XXVIII.--Disaffection begins to arise against Napoleon among the Soldiery--Purpose of setting up Moreau against him--Character of Moreau--Causes of his Estrangement from Buonaparte--Pichegru--The Duke d'Enghien--Georges Cadoudal, Pichegru, and other Royalists, landed in France--Desperate Enterprise of Georges--Defeated--Arrest of Moreau--of Pichegru--and Georges--Captain Wright--Duke d'Enghien seized at Strasburg--Hurried to Paris--Transferred to Vincennes--Tried by a Military Commission--Condemned--and Executed--Universal Horror of France and Europe--Buonaparte's Vindication of his Conduct--His Defence considered--Pichegru found dead in his Prison--Attempt to explain his Death by charging him with Suicide--Captain Wright found with his Throat cut--A similar Attempt made--Georges and other Conspirators Tried--Condemned--and Executed--Royalists Silenced--Moreau sent into Exile, 38