In "F.O.," Russia, No. 55, is a despatch of our ambassador at St.
Petersburg, Admiral Warren, of June 30, 1804, in which he reports
Czartoryski's concern at rumours of negotiations between England
and France: "The prince [Czartoryski] remarked that he could not
suppose, after what had passed between the two Courts, and the
manner in which the Emperor [Alexander] had explained himself to
England, and after the measures which Russia had since proposed,
that Great Britain would make a peace at once by herself."

Of these earlier negotiations I have found no trace; but obviously
the first proposals for an alliance must have come from Russia.
Sweden was the first to propose a monarchical league against
Napoleon. (See my article in the "Revue Napoléonienne" for June,
1902.)


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CHAPTER XXIII

AUSTERLITZ


After the capitulation of Ulm, the French Emperor marched against the
Russian army, which, as he told his troops, _English gold had brought
from the ends of the earth._ As is generally the case with coalitions,
neither of the allies was ready in time or sent its full quota. In