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
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, and were not yet deprivedof it. There appeared to be no other means of extrication: whilethe opening of the congress was deferred till the first of November,in the hope that the issue would be in consonance with the princijilesof international law, the stipulations of treaties, tmd the just expecta-tions of contemporaries. The insertion of the words, principlesof international law, had l)een carried by Talleyrand against themost vehement opjjosition on the part of the Prussians, who at onceperceived that with this tliere must be declared a recognition of theking of Saxony and a condemnation of Alurat. Thus the question of Saxony continued to be the hinge on whichthe general perplexity turned. The representatives of l*lngland,guided by the wish to see a strong central jiower established on theContinent, manifested their assent to the cession of Saxony toPrussia, but opposed only the more decidedly the union of Poland. VuL. XVII,—21 370 TUE CONGHESS OF VIENNA AND TUE IIUNDRKI) DAYS.
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Fig. ii-i.—Talleyrand, Frince of Beiiovonto. From a copper-plate ens^raviiii; byAuguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desiioyers (1779-1857) ; original painting byIrangois Pascal U^rard (1770-18:i7). SHOULD SAXONY BECOME PRUSSIAN? 371 to Russia. With this view, Ciistlereagh, on October 11, made toChaiicellur Hardenberg the formal declaration that England Iult nohesitation, on political or moral grounds, with regard to the ainiexa-tion of Saxony to Prussia; for Saxony was a conquered country, theking had forfeited his rights through his own fault, and it was neces-sary to make an example of one of the princes of the Confederationof the Rhine. ^letternich, however, was fixed in the purpose, which wasseconded by Talleyrand, that Irussia should neither obtain Saxonynor increase her influence in South Germany. But if both objectscould not be reached at the same time, if the choice between twoevils were unavoidable, the increase of Russia by means of Polandconstantlv appeared to him the less of t

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