Mate, Chief and Second, always addressed as "Mr.," p. 517 Mate, a term generally used in the sense of "assistant," as "boatswain's mate," etc., p. 523 Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Duke of, the first to join the Alliance against Bonaparte, p. 335 Medals given by the King of Portugal to those who would make researches, p. 3 Mediterranean, wise suggestion to promote as far as possible trade with, p. 288 Melinde, King of, offers guides for the Portuguese to Calicut, p. 11
Mulberry-trees, attempt to grow them in Chelsea as food for silkworms, though found by experience not to flourish well north of the Loire in France, p. 213, note
Napoleon sends military officers to England to spy out the state of her ports, trade, etc., p. 276 , unsuccessful expedition of, against St. Domingo, and terrible losses, p. 277 declares he would rather see the English on the heights of Montmartre than in Malta, p. 279 denounces the conduct of England in a violent speech addressed to Lord Whitworth, ibid.
, extravagant paper by, in the Moniteur, p. 280 determines on the invasion of England, p. 281 arrests all English people travelling in France, p. 284 tries to destroy the commerce of England by his "continental system," p. 291 , decrees of, list of the dates of, p. 292, note
, Berlin Decree of, declares the blockade of the English coasts, ibid.
, skill of, in framing his Berlin Decree so as to appear to be the champion of liberty, p. 293
stigmatises the Hamburg merchants as "smugglers by profession," p. 295
meditates the invasion of Russia, p. 296
, decree of, from Milan, Dec. 17, 1807, p. 304
, decrees of, from Bayonne, April 17, 1808, and from Rambouillet, March 23, 1810, against the Americans, with the intention of forcing them into declaring war against England, p. 306
seizes all the American ships at Antwerp, Bordeaux, and Bayonne, and burns those at St. Sebastian, p. 307
, by granting special licences, is the first to evade his own decrees, p. 308
, scheme for excluding British goods from the continent wholly fails, p. 310
triumphant that "England has now a new enemy," p. 327
compels the Pope to sign a concordat, p. 336
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