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{8 - 80 - had: it had thrown France down. However, they did not want to make Alexander cinen second Napoleon. The English would have liked to have seen the war as the Austrians had already ended on the Rhine. The Tory government under Liver pool and Castlereagh also distrusted the affection that Alexander seemed to bring to the democratic movements at that time. Alexander's visit to England had worsened the personal relations between him and the leading statesmen, whom he had met with a certain disrespect while awarding the opposition's representatives. For his own nationality, Alexander had sweetened the unpopular, even hated prince-regent, the later George IV, against cool restraint. (i) It was only natural for England to seize the Österreichs party and France, once again included in the circle of the great powers, against Rufland and Prussia, which claimed Poland and Saxony for themselves, in the conflicts that shook the Viennese con- gress and almost led to a war of the powers that were still united. lexander wanted to join the Duchy of Warsaw under independent Polish administration, apart from a small area on the western border. Castlereagh, however, wanted to prevent "that Russia, based on an important expansion to the West, would re-awaken the system that all the allies would have wanted to destroy by the coalition, namely that a colossal military power would maintain other powerful neighbouring states in a kind of dependence and that - through influence on the whole of Europe"2) A Russia enlarged by Poland had to force Central Europe - Prussia and Austria - into dependence. "In the elimination of Napoleon's supremacy, England wants to restore the balance of the European powers, which at the same time secures its maritime domination... Alexander I also wants the conquest of Napoleon, 1 Th.v.Bernhardi: History of Russia and European politics in the years l8l4 to l83l, l. Teil, Leipzig l863, p. 15-17. 2) Castlereagh to Liverpool, 2 October 1984 at Schaeder p.71.