LIFE OF NAPOLEON POCKET EDITION VOL. IV. LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. VOL. 4. [Illustration: Mayence] EDINBURGH; A. & C. BLACK. 1876 CONTENTS. PAGE CHAP. XLIX.--Conduct of Russia and England during the War with Austria--Meditated Expedition of British Troops to the Continent--Sent to Walcheren--Its Calamitous Details and Result--Proceedings of Napoleon with regard to the Pope--General Miollis enters Rome--Napoleon publishes a Decree, uniting the States of the Church to the French Empire--Is Excommunicated--Pius VII. is banished from Rome, and sent to Grenoble--afterwards brought back to Savona--Buonaparte is attacked by an Assassin--Definitive Treaty of Peace signed at Schoenbrun--Napoleon returns to France on the 14th November, 1809, 1 CHAP. L.--Change in Napoleon's Domestic Life--Causes which led to it--His anxiety for an Heir--A Son of his Brother Louis is fixed upon, but dies in Childhood--Character and influence of Josephine--Strong mutual Attachment betwixt her and Napoleon--Fouché opens to Josephine the Plan of a Divorce--Her extreme Distress--On 5th December, Napoleon announces her Fate to Josephine--On 15th they are formally separated before the Imperial Council--Josephine retaining the rank of Empress for Life--Espousals of Buonaparte and Maria Louisa of Austria take place at Vienna, 11th March, 1810, 17 CHAP. LI.--Almost all the Foreign French Settlements fall into the hands of the British--French Squadron destroyed at the Isle of Aix, by Lord Cochrane--and at the Isle of Rosas, by Lord Collingwood--Return to the Proceedings in Spain--Soult takes Oporto--Attacked and Defeated by Sir Arthur Wellesley--Ferrol and Corunna retaken by the Patriots--Battle of Talavera, gained by Sir Arthur Wellesley--Created Lord Wellington--The French Armies take many Towns and Strong Places--Supreme Junta Retreat to Cadiz--The Guerilla System--Growing Disappointment of Buonaparte--His immense Exertions--Battle of Busaco--Lord Wellington's famous Retreat on Torres Vedras, 28