still did lay
    A weight of languid speech, or at the same
    Was silent, motionless in eyes and face,
    She was a Negro Woman, driven from France—­
    Rejected, like all others of that race,
    Not one of whom may now find footing there;
    Thus the poor outcast did to us declare,
    Nor murmured at the unfeeling Ordinance.”
]

[Footnote 45:  Afterwards Sir James.]

[Footnote 46:  It was by this book that the two dark stories of Jaffa were first promulgated through Europe:  and it is proper to add, that Sir R. Wilson publicly presented a copy to George III. at his levee.]

CHAPTER XVIII

Recommencement of the War—­French seize Hanover and Naples—­the English seize various French colonies—­Scheme of invading England resumed—­Moreau—­Pichegru—­Georges Cadoudal—­Captain Wright—­Murder of the Duke d’Enghien—­Napoleon Emperor of France—­King of Italy—­Genoa united to the Empire.

The war was re-opened vigorously on both sides.  The English fleets rapidly reconquered various colonies surrendered back to France by the treaty of Amiens, and assisted in compelling the dwindled army which Leclerc had commanded to evacuate St. Domingo.  Buonaparte, on the other hand, despised utterly the distinction between the British Empire and Hanover—­a possession indeed of the same prince, but totally unconnected with the English Constitution, and, as belonging to the Germanic Empire, entitled, if it chose, to remain neutral—­and having first marched an army into Holland, ordered Mortier, its chief, to advance without ceremony and seize the Electorate.  At the same time, and with the same pretext, French troops poured into the South of Italy, and occupied Naples.

General Mortier’s appearance on the Hanoverian frontier was such as to satisfy the Duke of Cambridge, governor for the Elector, that resistance was hopeless.  He entered into a negotiation (May, 1803), by which the territory was to be surrendered, provided his army were permitted to retire unbroken behind the Elbe, pledging themselves not to take the field again against France during this war.  But the ministers of George III. advised him not to ratify this treaty.  Mortier demanded of General Walmsloden, commander-in-chief of the Hanoverian army, to surrender his arms—­or abide the consequences of being attacked beyond the Elbe—­and that fine body of men was accordingly disarmed and disbanded.  The cavalry, being ordered to dismount and yield their horses to the French, there ensued a scene which moved the sympathy of the invading soldiery themselves.  The strong attachment between the German dragoon and his horse is well known; and this parting was more like that of dear kindred than of man and beast.