_British Expedition to Calabria, under Sir John Stuart--Character of the People--Opposed by General Reynier--Battle of Maida, 4th July, 1806--Defeat of the French--Calabria evacuated by the British--Erroneous Commercial Views, and Military Plans, of the British Ministry--Unsuccessful Attack on Buenos Ayres--General Whitelocke--is cashiered--Expedition against Turkey, and its Dependencies--Admiral Duckworth's Squadron sent against Constantinople--Passes and repasses the Dardanelles, without accomplishing anything--Expedition against Alexandria--Rosetta attacked--British troops defeated--and withdrawn from Egypt, September, 1807--Curaçoa and Cape of Good Hope taken by England--British Expedition against Copenhagen--its Citadel, Forts, and Fleet, surrendered to the British--Effects of this proceeding upon France and Russia--Coalition of France, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, against British Commerce._ The treaty of Tilsit is an important point in the history of Napoleon. At no time did his power seem more steadfastly rooted, more feebly assailed. The canker-worm by which it was ultimately to be destroyed, was, like that of the forest-tree, intrenched and hidden in the bosom of him whom it was destined to sap and consume. It is a fitting time, therefore, to take a general survey of the internal character of his government, when the arrangements seemed to be at his own choice, and ere misfortune, hitherto a stranger, dictated his course of proceeding, which had before experienced no control save his own will. We propose, therefore, in the next chapter, to take a brief review of the character of Buonaparte's government during this the most flourishing period of his power. But, ere doing so, we must shortly notice some circumstances, civil and military, which, though they had but slight immediate effect upon the general current of events, yet serve to illustrate the character of the parties concerned, and to explain future incidents which were followed by more important consequences. These we have hitherto omitted, in order to present, in a continuous and uninterrupted form, the history of the momentous warfare, in the course of which Prussia was for the time subjugated, and Russia so far tamed by the eventful struggle, as to be willing to embrace the relation of an ally to the conqueror, whose course she had proposed to stem and to repel.