Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1807-09-21
GLASGOW, C8coflqnd) AUG. 10.
From me London Courier.

The Treaty Bet7yeen Prussia Il France.
The conditions Of the treaty between
Prussia and France cannot nave surprised
any one. 1t was easy to foresee from the
relative situation in which Bonaparte and
the king Of Prussia were, that the former
wouldTeduce the latter 50 low as To pre-
vent him from being able to oppose any OBJ
stacles to his designs, or Of being any long
e. an object OF the highest apprehension
Deprived Of every inch Of territory on the
left Bank ofthe Elbe, and stretching ONLY
the Vistula BY that small and unproductiye
Province which lies between the Neumar-
che and the Vistula suffered only to pre-
serve a petty tract Of territory on the right
bank ofthat river, in order 10 connect the
ancient possessions Of his House with the
sterile Province of PCmerani and his terri
tories between the Oder and the banks of
the EiDe deprived of Danzic, of Thorn,
and OF Warsaw, Of the command ofthe nav
I6auon Of the Vistula, of all the best and
most fertile part Of Poland, Prussia is a
power Ut less magnitude and resources than
the newly erected kingdom of Saxony. Sile-
STA indeed has been restored to his Prussian
Majesty, but with the humilatinr condi-
ton OF allowing a military road through it
I'd the troops OF that Power Which i u he
the future Sovereign of hisPolish provinces
and which al 10 distant period we Dredict
will add Sllcsiato the other possessions that
have been wrested from his HOuae TIC
UNION OF the helress OF oaXony with the new
Sovereign OF Westphalia, Will unite the two
Kingdoms OF SaXony & Westphila,and thus .
power Will be created, which, extended f.,n
the confines OF kussIanPoland to the Rb;pa
wiil render Prussia power Of as little mag.
mtude and Importance as Saxony and Bava-
ria were before the French had carried
their arms and their conquests beyond he
Kline. Inc King Of Prussia binds himself
also to acknowledge The present and future
Members OF thcRheneish Confedaracy All
the petty Princes in the North of German,
who were formerly under his influence ami
controul, and who are to be suffered n re-
tam or recover their territories. VIII he
compelled 10 JOIN the Confederacv and
thus Prussia i left isolated and alone. sir.
rounded by States, whose resources can a
an instant, at the command Of france. be
combined and directed against her The
policy which led 10 the formation ~ III
- w dSs III must be con-
fessed diaholcaily profound. Il cement
and confirms the influence Of France over
GermAny,by dividing against her
self Bonaparte has made German act 4.
6anst German-the Bayarian against the
/ AustlIAl-the Saxon against Hessian -thc
BaYarlan and the Saxon against the Prus.
Sl;n. lie has sown The seeds of jealousy
and hatred between Prussia and the Confed-
eracy, and Austria and the Confederacv
and the Confederates, whatever nav
be their sentiments Of each other. mus,
remain united and obedient to hi.
commands. 1t i this Confederacy. that
| mas rendered the German Empire InaIlea
bic ore in his hands, which he nav shan,
ana fashion As lie pleases. soon shall w
see the ancient Princes and Houses of Ger
many give place 10 the novi ho7nries. III,
race 2. the Bonapartes and Beauharno;s
and( strange reverse Of fortune !)thc countr,
N which the pride Ut family was carried I;
Az eAlvAt uueAamp.cd IL any other part {