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 enemy of magnitude, on the 7th of August he published a manifesto, announcing an invasion of England, and assembling a numerous flotilla at Boulogne, formed a camp in the neighbourhood, of 200,000 men. The battle of Trafalgar on the 21st October put an end to this scheme, if ever seriously determined upon, by destroying the greater part of the French navy, and instead of invading England, the assembled army was turned against Germany, once more excited to premature hostilities. In less than six weeks the pretended army of England was on the banks of the Danube, and the capitulation of general Mack at Ulm was the rapid consequence. On the 11th November, 1805, the French army entered Vienna, which Francis II, had quitted a few days before, to retire with a remnant of his army into Moravia, where the emperor Alexander joined him with a Russian army, which he commanded in person. Napoleon encountered the two emperors on the plains of Austerlitz the 2d of December, where the great military talents of the French leader again prevailed, and the treaty of Presburgh followed, which recognised him king of Italy, master of Venice, of Tuscany, of Parma, of Placentia, and of Genoa. Prussia also ceded the grand duchy of Berg, which he gave to Murat; and in exchange for Hanover, the margravate of Anspach, which he assigned to Bavaria, cementing the chain of intermarriages with his relatives, which he meditated by ng his adopted son, Eugene Beauharnois, to a princess of that family.

He now also began to assume the lofty power of regulating and creating dynastics, and promoting the minor princes around him from one grade to another. The electors of Bavaria, of Wirtemburg, and Saxony were transformed into kings; the