Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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hould be restored to the king. Through Napoleon Prussialost all her possessions on the left side of the Elbe; likewise the districtsacquired by the second and third partition of Poland ; all exertions tosave at least Magdeburg were fruitless. Out of 137,000 square milesand a population of 9,750,000, Prussia retained only 68,500 squaremiles with 4,594,000 inhabitants. She engaged to break off all inter-course with England, and to free all prisoners of war. A special con-vention of July 12 appointed dates for the evacuation of the country andthe restoration of the fortresses : October 1, and November 1, respecti\ely.But these should be observed only in the event of the contributions—whose amount was not even specified—being paid at the pri)i)cr time, orsecurity, acknowledged by Intendant General Darn as sufficient, t)eiiigfurnished therefor; until the evacuation, all the French troops were tobe subsisted at the cost of the country. Out of the former territory of 48 TUE WORLD EMPIRE.
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o 3 a - II O 3 a o :::: o O CONDITIOSS OF TUE PEACE. 49 Prussian Polaiul, Najx)leoii created a duchy of Warsaw which he gavein fee to the King of Saxony; Napoleon retained for iiis marshals estatesto the amount of 26,000,000 francs. He now endowed Jerome, witha kingdom formed out of the Prussian departments on the left of theElbe, the electorate of Hesse, Brunswick, and southern Hanover; thiskingdom of Westphalia contained 16,500 square miles and nearly2,000,000 inhabitants. The remainder of Hanover Napoleon retained,as a means of settlement in a future peace with England. Dantzic, witha circuit of two leagues, was made a free state under Irussian-Saxonprotection. History knows few examples of a policy so thoroughly immoral asthat laid down in these arrangements. Napoleon had lost regard forhis plighted word. Having assured the Porte of his protection in themost solemn manner, he now pledged himself to the hereditarv enemyof Turkey to its partition, under the wretched pretence that th

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