It  was  with  its  money-bags  that  England  fought  against  the  conqueror.
It  could  not  conveniently  send  men,  but  it  could  send  money  and  supplies

to  the  warring  nations,  and  by  its  influence  and  aid  it  formed  coalition  after

coalition  against  Napoleon,  each  harder  to  overthrow  than  the  last.     Every

peace  that  the  Corsican  won  by  his  victories  was  overthrown  by  England's

influence.      Her   envoys  haunted  every  court,   whispering    hostility  in  the

Jand       ears  of  monarchs,   planning,  intriguing,   instigating,   threaten-

Fought  ing,  in  a  thousand  ways  working  against  his  plans,  and  unre-

AgainstNa-      lentingly  bent  upon  his  overthrow.      It    was  fitting,  then,  that

an  English  general  should  give  Napoleon  the  coup  de  grace,

and  that  he  should  die  a  prisoner  in  English  hands.
Chief  among  those  to  whom  Napoleon  owes  his  overthrow  was  William
Pitt,  prime  minister  of  England  during  the  first  period  of  his  career  of  con-
quest, and  his  unrelenting  enemy.  It  was  Pitt  that  organized  Europe
against  him,  that  kept  the  British  fleet  alert  and  expended  the  British
revenues  without  stint  against  this  disturber  of  the  peace  of  the  nations,
and  that  formed  the  policy  which  Great  Britain,  after  the  short  interval
of  the  ministry  of  Fox,  continued  to  pursue  until  his  final  defeat  was
achieved.
