"If ever breath of British gale Shall fan the tricolor, Or footstep of invader rude, With rapine foul and red with blood, Pollute our happy shore-- Then farewell home! and farewell friends! Adieu each tender tie! Resolved, we mingle in the tide Where charging squadron furious ride, To conquer or to die," &c. And various sonnets of Mr. Wordsworth; such as-- "It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom," &c. "Vanguard of liberty! ye men of Kent, Ye children of a soil that doth advance Its haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the time to prove your hardiment!" &c. ] [Footnote 48: This account was published _more than twenty years afterwards_, in consequence of a pamphlet by Savary (Duke of Rovigo).] [Footnote 49: About a year afterwards Captain Wright was found dead in his dungeon in the Temple, with his throat cut from ear to ear. This mystery has hitherto remained in equal darkness; but Buonaparte was far from Paris at the period of Wright's death, and, under all the circumstances of the case, there seems to be no reason for supposing that he could have had any concern in that tragedy.] [Footnote 50: _i.e._ Kill-king.] CHAPTER XIX New coalition against France--Sweden--Russia--Austria joins the Alliance--Napoleon heads the Army in Germany--Ulm surrendered by Mack--Vienna taken--Naval Operations--Battle of Trafalgar--Battle of Austerlitz--Treaty of Presburg--Joseph Buonaparte King of Naples--Louis Buonaparte King of Holland--Confederation of the Rhine--New Nobility in France. On the 27th of January, 1805, Napoleon, in his new character of Emperor, addressed a letter (as he had done before at the commencement of his Consulate) to King George III. in person; and was answered, as before, by the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The new Emperor's letter contained many well-turned sentences about the blessings of peace, but no distinct proposition of any kind--least of all any hint that he was willing to concede Malta. The English minister, however, answered simply, that in the present state of relations between the cabinet of St. James's and that of St. Petersburg, it was impossible for the former to open any negotiation without the consent of the latter.