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Demands for contingents from some of the small States of Germany M. Metternich Position of Russia with respect to France Union of Austria and Russia Return of the English to Spain Soult King of Portugal, and Murat successor to the Emperor First levy of the landwehr in Austria Agents of the Hamburg 'Correspondent' Declaration of Prince Charles Napoleon's march to Germany His proclamation Bernadotte's departure for the army Napoleon's dislike of Bernadotte Prince Charles' plan of campaign The English at Cuxhaven Fruitlessness of the plots of England Napoleon wounded Napoleon's prediction realised Major Schill Hamburg threatened and saved Schill in Lubeck His death, and destruction of his band Schill imitated by the Duke of Brunswick-OEls Departure of the English from Cuxhaven.
Napoleon's course was probably somewhat influenced both by the mutterings of national discontent in France and by the actual insurrections which were taking place in Germany. Schill, after leaving Berlin, had been successively harassed by the Dutch, the Westphalians, and the Danes, until in despair he threw himself into Stralsund in hope of coöperation from an English fleet.
But while he was thus marching from triumph to triumph the people of Hamburg and the neighbouring countries had a neighbour who did not leave them altogether without inquietude. The famous Prussian partisan, Major Schill, after pursuing his system of plunder in Westphalia, came and threw himself into Mecklenburg, whence, I understood, it was his intention to surprise Hamburg.
The insurrection in Westphalia, to assist which Schill, in disobedience of orders, had led his battalion of hussars from Berlin, was easily suppressed. This fact, with Napoleon's signal success in Bavaria, seemed to justify Frederick William, and the failure of Francis to secure any advantage after Aspern confirmed the opinion.
From the beginning Napoleon had made the most of his enemy's being the aggressor. There were no terms too harsh for the "Moniteur" to apply when speaking of the hostile court and the resisting populations. The Emperor's proclamations reveled in abuse of the Tyrolese and of Schill.
Did not those women excite Schill against us while we were at peace with Prussia; but stay a little; we shall see. 'Schill's enterprise; Sire, bears no resemblance to this attempt. You know how the Emperor likes every one to yield to his opinion when he has adopted one which he does not choose to give up; so he said, rather changing his tone of good-humoured familiarity, 'All you say is in vain, Monsieur le General: I am not liked either at Berlin or Weimar. There is no doubt of that, Sire; but because you are not liked in these two Courts, is it to be inferred that they would assassinate you? 'I know the fury of those women; but patience.
Dietrich Schill was deputed by the Club to sound the White Rose herself on the subject of Farina, and one afternoon in the vintage season, when she sat under the hot vine-poles among maiden friends, eating ripe grapes, up sauntered Dietrich, smirking, cap in hand, with his scroll trailed behind him. 'Wilt thou? said Margarita, offering him a bunch.
Never had the world seen embodied might like that of Napoleon's Empire; and well might he exclaim at the birth of the King of Rome, "Now begins the finest epoch of my reign." All the auguries seemed favourable. In France, the voice of opposition was all but hushed. Italians, Swiss, and even some Spaniards, helped to keep down Prussia. Dutchmen and Danes had hunted down Schill for him at Stralsund.
The chief members of the White Rose Club were Berthold Schmidt, the rich goldsmith's son; Dietrich Schill, son of the imperial saddler; Heinrich Abt, Franz Endermann, and Ernst Geller, sons of chief burghers, each of whom carried a yard-long scroll in his cap, and was too disfigured in person for men to require an inspection of the document.
Schill and the Duke of Brunswick Andreas Hofer The Armistice of Znaim The Northern Powers Adhere to France Wellesley's Successes in the Peninsula The Walcheren Expedition Negotiations for Peace Austria a Second-rate Power Attempt on Napoleon's Life His Great Uneasiness The Tyrol Subdued The Pope a Prisoner.
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