The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-12 00:00:00

LOSSESOF PRUSSIA FY THE RLICE.

Ey 'the Peace cf Presburgh,- Austria lost three
millions of inhabitants, and a revenue of t 6 millions
of,guilders.. The Peace of Tilsit has been still more
pufortunate for the -Prussian Monarchy, having di.-
iminished it nearly one-half. - Instead of ten millions
,of inhabilants, not more than rive nowremaiti un-.
.der the Prassian Sceptre; and the revenue, which
formerly amounted to forty millions of dollars, has
been decreased in a still greater proportion, since
the ceded Provinces are exaaly those which are the
richest and the to;kt fertile, and on whose. improve-I
ment many millions have heretofore been expended..
AlMost all that Prussia gained by the partition of
Poland is again .wrested from her. Saxony, the late
confederate of Prussia, by 'compulsion, has received
these PrOvinces ; and. Russia, the most poWerftil
Ally of the latter, has been rounded by territory',
containing a population of 9.00,000 souls. The fol-
.lowing is a statement of the Losses of Prussia by the
Teace.of Tilsit. ' _ •

, ..
..-, WESTPHAL lAN I'OSSES§IONS.
German inhabi-
- ' square miles. tauts.
County of Mark, with Essen, Werden,
and Lippstadt :. - - 51 148,000
Principality of Minden - - -18 i 70,363
County of Ravcnsberg - - 14 89,933
-Lingen and Tecklenberg .4 - 13 46,0 •
Cleve, on the German side of the Rhine - aoi 64,000
Principality of East Friesland - - 561 119;500
.-------- Munster - - • 49 127,000
-4----;-----= Paderborn - - 5o 93,500

It is scarcely necessary to observe, that some of
the Westphalian possessions were ceded at an earlier
period, and that no compensation will be now
made tbr them.

POSSESSIONS IN LOWER SAXONY. • ,
, German Inhabi-
. syn. Miles. tants.
Magdeburgh, with that part 'of the Duchy' on
the left bank of the Elbe, Halle, i60,0a0
County of MirSteldt _ 1j 27,000
Principality of Hit I bertstadt . . 24 rot,c•no
County of Hohettstein - . Si 270u0
Territory of Quailinburgh - 13,e00
Principality ot*Hildesheim and Goslar - 4o 1.14,c00
POSSESSIONS IN
.UPPER SAXt)NY.

. _
The Old Mark, with Stendal, lee. - 6z ti.boso
Circle of Kotbus, in Lower Lusatia - a7i 33,2.66
Principality ot Erforilt - 1 - 13 41,1c0
Cdtinty of Pincrgleichen, with Blankenhain .3 9,340
Principality ot EtclistiAti - - -2. s 64.003
county of Muldhausen - .. ~ 4 16,c00
---- Norclhausen - - - i , tt,boa
PREVIOUS CESSIONS.
• '

Apspacts - - 6' 270,000
Bay reuth - 5 223,000
N euichatel -16 h 47,(0

Total

6&o 2,04z,261

To this we have 'still to add the great loSs of ter-
ritory in Poland, with Warsaw, Dantzic, Thorn,
Posen, • &c.' Since 1772 Prussia had acquired in
her Polish territories upwards of three millions of
inhabitants. Of these she now loies more than
2000 square miles, and two and a half millions of
'inhabitants. The King of Saxony has more terri-
tory and more subjects, as Duke of Warsaw, than
as King. While the sun of Saxony is thus rising
with new splendour, two of the most ancient Ger-.
man Princely House, those of the Catti and Guelph
have fallen, and pensions are assigned to their
Princes. The application of ALEX/OMER alone has
saved the two Duchies, whose Sovereigns are allied
to him by marriage Mecklenburgh Schwerin, and
Saxe-Cuburgh.