It beckoned him on to Jena and Tilsit.
While reducing his finances to order and newspaper editors to servility, the conqueror received news of the triumph of his arms in Southern Italy.

There the Bourbons of Naples had mortally offended him.

After concluding a convention for the peaceable withdrawal of St.
Cyr's corps and the strict observance of neutrality by the kingdom of Naples, Ferdinand IV.

and his Queen Caroline welcomed the arrival at their capital of an Anglo-Russian force of 20,000 men, and intrusted the command of these and of the Neapolitan troops to General Lacy.[65] This force, it is true, did little except weaken the northward march of Massena; but the violation of neutrality by the Bourbons galled Napoleon.

At Vienna he refused to listen to the timid pleading of the Hapsburgs on their behalf, and as soon as peace was signed at Pressburg he put forth a bulletin stating that St.Cyr was marching on Naples to hurl from the throne that guilty woman who had so flagrantly violated all that is sacred among men.