Rise to a man, and prove that you do not grudge your blood to your country!" Lastly, in one of Napoleon's own bulletins, the following ominous sentences were permitted to appear:--"Shall the Polish throne be re-established, and shall the Great Nation secure for it respect and independence?
Shall she recall it to life from the grave?
God only, who directs all human affairs, can resolve this great mystery!" These appeals produced various eager addresses from Poland--and Buonaparte prepared to visit that country, though not as her liberator.
Before re-opening the great campaign, Buonaparte received the submission and explanation of the Elector of Saxony, who truly stated that Prussia had forced him to take part in the war.

The apology was accepted, and from this time the Elector adhered to the League of the Rhine, and was a faithful ally of Napoleon.

The Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel had worse fortune.

The answer to all his applications was, that he had ceased to reign.

What use the Conqueror designed to make of the territories thus confiscated, we shall presently see.