The solution of this enigma has never been found. There was at the moment a lull in the storm; for a time it seemed as if it would lengthen into a prolonged calm. During the ceremonies at the Louvre the Austrian ambassador, who had taken to himself the credit of what was passing, and had impressively accepted the congratulations showered on him, caught up a wine-glass from the breakfast-table, and, appearing at the window, announced in a loud voice that he drank to the "King of Rome," a title reserved under the Holy Roman Empire for the heir apparent. It was but a short time since Schwarzenberg's proud master had renounced his proudest style, that of Roman emperor. The crowd knew that the toast as now given was intended for Napoleon's issue, and they burst into cheers at this new sign of Austrian amity. The captive Spaniards at Valencay were not to be outdone. They chanted a "Te Deum" in their chapel, and drank toasts to the health "of our august sovereigns, the great Napoleon and Maria Louisa, his august spouse." Ferdinand set a climax to his disgusting obsequiousness in a petition begging to be adopted as a son, and asking for permission to appear at court. Compiegne, whither the imperial pair soon returned, was crowded with royal personages, with the most distinguished diplomatists, and with the couriers bearing congratulatory despatches from persons of consequence throughout Europe. CHAPTER XX RIGORS OF THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM[35] [Footnote 35: References: Marbot, Memoirs, ch. 28. Mahan: Influence of Sea Power. Sloane: Political Science Quarterly, The Continental System of Napoleon, XIII, pp. 213 _et seq._] Measures of Ecclesiastical Procedure -- Reforms in the Church -- Napoleon as Suzerain of the Pope -- Methods of Defying the Continental System -- Measures to Enforce it -- Rearrangement of German Lands -- Napoleon as a Smuggler -- "Simulated Papers" -- Evasions of the Imperial Restrictions -- Visit to the Netherlands -- Napoleon and his Brother Louis -- The Latter Defiant -- Louis's Negotiations with England -- Fouche's Interference -- His Counterplot. [Sidenote: 1810]