The Washington herald., 1914-06-14
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gal to close their harbors against Eng
land and thus leave not port for a
British ship on me coasts Of Continental
Europe.
With the easy sense of honor charac-
teristic of princes, Alexander accepted in
return a miserable little strip of Polish
soil that Napoleon had taken from Alex
ander's sworn friend. Frederick William
whom he had really seduced into contin-
uing a disastrous war after the fall OF
Berlin. He received also a vague but
giittering permission to. steal Finland
from the Swedes and European Turkey
from the .Sultan--with the exception OF
Constantinoplei
Merely as "a testimonial Of respect
for the Gar. Napoleon restored to Prus-
sia half of her 100000 subjects, but she
was required to give up all the CONQUERED
lands Of Frederick the Great except
Silesia- Prussian Poland was to be
formed into the Grand Duchy of War
saw under the sovereignty OF the KING
of SaNony. whose alliance Napoleon had
won after the battle of jena while the
great fortress of Magdeberg and all the
rest of the Prussian territory west Of the
River Elbe was to be added to Jerome
Bonaparte's new kingdom Of West
phaiia or to Louis Bonaparte's kingdom
OF Holland Moreover, Frederick Will
lam. now a mere yassal OF the French
empire, must find somewhere more than
S300eo 600 to reimburse the conqueror for
the cost of the war, and until he found
IL.
were to remain in pawn, the French army
continuing to occupy them.
Victor and vanquishcd.
Leaving Tilsit, Napoleon paused for
awhile at the castle OF konlgsoers, from
which Louise had been driven out into a
wintry storm and where his apartments
are still shown by the Kaiser's servants.
There he took carriage for Dresden,
which is a crow flight of 400 miles. For
L.. Iray GfanninR
down" until he had arrived at the pal
ace of his new ally, the King of Saxony.
Louise returned to Memel. by whose
lonely Baltic shore she was to pass many
long and sorrowful months. While wait
ing there for the evacuation of Berlin
and the restoration Of her capital and her
home she and the royal family OF Prus-
sia were reduced to palmer fare than
dismissed and horses sold. while the
service of gold plate. treasured heir
loom of the Hohenzollerns. was melted
down and coined into money for the
bankrupt treasury Of the knsdom'
But she kept her pearls, for pearls be-
token tears. and have shed so many OF
. them
The saner and more patriotic advisers.
! whom the King called into his ministry,
met al MemeI to gather up the broken
remnants of the old kingdom and there
in grief and humility they began the
great task Of making a new Prussia.
Baron Stein stood foremost in that work
of reconstruction. with the loyal support
OF the Queen. She had gained in adver-
sity a vision far clearer than most Of the
, sovereigns and statesmen Of Europe In
her day and Of many historians In our
own day She was enabled to read the
larger, the impersonal meaning Of Ma
poleon's mission. recognizing that "Di-
vine Providence" was Enthusiastically in
PRODUCING a new order of things In the
world and that the French Emperor
was but an instrument i'm the hand of
the Almighty to bury the old era" 4
Louise had seen the Prussian aristoc-
racy devoid of courage or honor IN the
presence of the plebeian Emperor and
marshals of revolutionized France, and
she enthusiastically seconded the efforts
! Of Stein to persuade the King no longer
] to RELY on a selfish and cowardly class,
hut 10 plant the kingdom on the broader.
sounder foundation of justice to the
masses. From the village Of Memel went
forth DEGREES liberating the serfs. open
ing the ownership of the land to those
who titled II, and undermining the lnsti-
! tutions Of Prussia in many waV