English Translation

U8 -.79 - in which England agreed to pay a war aid to Russia. For this all Russian ports were now opened to the English ships.1) The English aid however only affected l8l3. England achieved by this treaty, as later with the agreements with Prussia, that it could again employ foreign armies on the mainland at its service. Russia rendered a valuable service to the English when it mediated 18l4 between England and the United States of North America in the interest of the defeat of Napoleon and secured the possession of Canada to the British. 2) But how little one dared the English on the Russian side shows the aversion of Kutuzov to a continuation of the war after the liberation of Russia. To the English General Wilson he declared the destruction of Napoleon as not at all in the interest of Russia at all. "The inheritance would not fall on Russia nor on any other continental power, but on that power whose power over the seas would then be completely unbearable." Kutusov and his friends feared English obesity. The Baron of the Stone on the other hand saw England's intervention against the re-emergence at the Congress of Vienna the opposition of the two great powers emerged openly. Pokrovsky speaks almost of an "empirical law" that no coalition could be successful, in England a Russian supremacy in Europe. England's political system was based on the principle of always fighting and weakening the most powerful continental state. This state was Russia after France's fall. Thus, this calculation alone gave rise to opposition against Russia. Russia had done the service for which it was paid 1) Stählin 3, p.18l; Pokrovskij p.64. 2) diaper band p.238. 3) Steel 3, pp. 222-223. 4) Pökrovskij p.110.