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.
This sufficiently indicated a fact of which Napoleon had just suspicion some time before.

The murder of the Duke d'Enghien had been regarded with horror by the young Emperor of Russia; he had remonstrated vigorously, and his reclamations had been treated with indifference.