What would not Napoleon have given to know the actual state of things at the allied headquarters ?[300] But no spy warned him of the truth; and as his own instincts prompted him to turn aside, so as to prepare condign chastisement for Austria, he continued to treat for an armistice.
"Nothing," he wrote to Eugene on June 2nd, "can be more perfidious than that Court.

If I granted her present demands, she would afterwards ask for Italy and Germany.

Certainly she shall have nothing from me." Events served to strengthen his resolve.

The French entered Breslau in triumph, and raised the siege of Glogau.

The coalition seemed to be tottering.