ne
to the blows of the enemy; the aid of Russia was too remote, and England
fought only with money and vessels. The treaty aimed at nothing less
than a league of all the European states against France, and the
re-establishment of all the relations that existed before the war of
the revolution. But these designs were frustrated, and that chiefly by
Prussia's remaining neutral; without the accession of this power, it
was scarcely possible to make an effectual attack on the enemy. Its
neutrality was, in fact, a protection to the northern half of the French
empire.

CONQUESTS OF NAPOLEON IN BAVARIA.

Certified of the nature and extent of the coalition formed against him,
Napoleon hastened to secure Bavaria to himself, by the promise of a
large aggrandizement of territory. In consequence of this, Austria
advanced her troops, peremptorily requiring the elector to join the
imperial standard. This he refused to do, and then the Austrian army was
ordered to occupy Munich. On his return from Italy, Napoleon had spoken
of the invasion of England as an enterprise fully determined upon; but
on the 28th of August he announced that "the army of England" was to
become "the army of Germany." Forthwith, the 150,000 men collected at
Boulogne, and along that coast, struck their tents, and forming
into five separate corps, marched for the Rhine. He affected great
disappointment in abandoning his scheme of invasion; but it is doubtful
whether he ever really intended to take such a step. The readiness,
indeed, with which he dictated his masterly plan for a continental
campaign, proves that it had been the subject of a long and mature
reflection, and would indicate that this was in reality his grand
design. At the same time, such was his mortal hatred to England, that,
if he had discerned the remotest chance of success, there is little
doubt but that he would have engaged in the desperate enterprise. But
England was freed from all fears, and the armies destined to act against
her took another route. The five great columns which marched from
Boulogne were led by Marshals Soult, Davoust, Ney, Lannes, and Murat;
but in the month of September Napoleon took the command of the whole in
person. He prefaced his departure for the "Grand Army" by going in
state to the senate, and there delivering a speech on the causes of
the present war. He remarked: "The wishes of the eternal enemies of the
continent are at-last fulfilled; war is begun in the