The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09
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KINGS.

ing, Only a month before. Alexander had
been in Berlin. out al Potsdam. on the Sd
Of November. he and Frederick William
had sworn a secret mighty oath over the
tomb Of Frederick the Great This con-
Duration with the car did not now seem
to have been an expedient thing, Fred
erick. supposing that Napoleon was not
informed Of his perfdy. sent to the victor
at Austerlitz a message OF hollow con-
graduation. The emperor on receiving
it. said that Frederick William had writ
ten the letter. intending it for the car,
but that fortune had changed the address
to himself,
The treaty Of Presburg was another
peace that did not pacify. Europe was
PROSTATE before Napoleon as far as the
Vistula; but England covered all sea
coasts from the Adria tic 10 the Baltic, and
the whole Slavic race lay darkly banked
on the horizon Of the northeast. The en-
peror began at once, with incredible au-
dacity. to make a new political map for
the European powers and to support 1t
with his under-kings and princes. vassals
of France. Influenced by the recent Rus
so-Austrian coalition. Italy. under the
leadership of Ferdinand. king Of the Two
Sicilies, had hopefully sympathized with
the allies Instigated by his wife. Caro-
line Maria. sister Of Marie Antoinette, the
Neapolitan king had admitted into his
dominions division of the Russian army
The cause of offense was sufficient; Napo-
leon. in January of 1906. sent a corps, un-
Ger his brother Joseph, to occupy Italy.
on the 18th OF February, having entered
Naples Joseph was proclaimed king, and
the. Bourbon monarchy was abolished.
Notwithstanding the intended treachery
Of Frederick william. the emperor kept
faith with him. and delivered Hanover TO
Prussia. The king was reluctant to ac-
cept the gift: for Hanover was England's,
and he would fain be at one with Eng
land The principalities along the right
bark Of the Rhine. even from Italy 10 Hol-
land, were erected into the confederation
of the Rhine Fourteen princes Of Ger
many voluntarily detached themselves
from their Teutonic Affiliations and carried
over a population Of about sixteen millions
10 the French prOtectorate. Napoleon
would thus construct a Germanic wall be
tween Eastern Europe and France, pro-
tecting the latter against the further IN
cursion of the Austro-Slavic races.
The next step was TO convert Holland
into a sub-kingdom of France. On the 9TH
of June 1896, Louis BOnaparte, to whom,
four years previously, Hortense Beauhar-
nais had been married, was proclaimed
king of Holland. out of Hesse-Cassel,
Brunswick and parts Of Saxony and Prus-
STA. the kingdom Of Westphalia was form
ed, and assigned to Jerome Bonaparte as
king To him-after Tilsit-was given in
marriage the princess Catharine OF Wur-
temburg. In the countries between the
Rhine and Poland. extending southwark
into Italy and northward TO the Baltic,
great number Of dukedoms and principals
ties were created and conferred on the
marshals of the empire. Murat, husband
of Caroline Bonaparte was made grand
duke of Berg and Cleve. Lannes became
duke of Monticello. Junot was presently
nominated duke of Abrantes. Bernadotte
received the title of prince of PontecorVo.
Ney got his hard earned dukedom OF FL
chingen. Berthier was made duke OF Neu-
chatel and Valangin. Soult became duke
Of Dalmatia. Massena took his honor as
prince of Essling. DaVout, after a little
delay was made duke of Auerstadt Bac-
ciocchi, husband of Elise Bonaparte, was
created prince of Lucca and Piombino.
Eugene Beauharnais was given in mar
riage Augusta Amelia, daughter of the
king of Bavaria, and the title Of prince Of
Venice The process Of king-making and
prince-making was limited. not so much
By the possibilities of territory as by the
number of the imperial retinue.
Prussia now became a scene of stormy
agitation. The Inundated house of Ho-
henzolIern looked in this direction and in
that The Younger element of the peo-
pie and the philosophical patriots cried
out against the domination of France.
a laf
tingency appeared among the personal
forces in Europe. Charles James Fox. sue
cessor TO Pitt became minister of for
eign affairs, under the premiership of
Granville. Fox would fain have peace.
He was not devoid Of remote sympa>
thies with France and with Napoleon him
self. Courtesies began between him and
the emperor.
In the early summer of 1903 the histori-
cal conditions favored a general peace.
Both Fox and Napoleon sought It. The
car would have been willing. Emperor
Francis could not interfere. But the es-
tablishment of peace involved the resto-
ration of Hanover TO England. Talleyrand
limited to the British minstery that this
might be done; but Frederick had received
Hanover as the price of his late neutrality.
To be stripped of it after the fact was 70
leave him two things-shame and weak
ness. Nevertheless, affairs went forward
favora bly,, and If if were thing known
to history all might have been well
Suddenly. however, on the 18th of Sep
TENDER, 1906 Fox died; and by the in
coming of Lauderdale. the whole complex
ion was changed. Toryism again ran ram
pant. The Anglo-Russo-Pr ussian intrigue
was renewed. Frederick William sent a
peremtory challenge to Napoleon TO be-
take himself out of Germany The en-
peror had in truth agreed to withdraw his
forces; but the car had also agreed to re-
Hnquish certain vantage ground on the
Dalmatian frontier-and had not done it,
Therefore, Napoleons army corps would
remain in Germany. Frederick William
suddenly declared war and Napoleon. in
month after the death of Fox and the
sudden revulsion in diplomacy concentrat-
ed in SAKE Weimar an army of nearly a
hundred thousand men.
The Prussians. sixty thousand strong,
under Prince Hohenlohe, occupied the CITY
of Jena, on the Saale. There on the 14th
of October, they We're attacked and utterl,
routed by the French leaving behind
twelve thousand in killed and wounded
and about fifteen thousand prisoners or
the same day, at Auerstadt, fourteen miles
from Weimar, a corps of the grand army
tnirty-hve thousand strong under Marsha
Davout, fell upon a division of fifty thou