English Translation

- 82 - . Resistance, for which the incorporation of Sachson into Prussia was even less bearable than an enlargement of Russia by Poland. Austria secretly linked with Alexander and agreed with the incorporation into Poland, provided that Russia was prepared to displace Prussia from Saxony. Emperor Alexander I. was deeply offended by the patronizing tone of Castlereagh's writing. He reprimands him in his reply with the following words: "As for the concern I owe my own subjects, and my duties against them, it is my business to know them, and only the honesty of your motives has left me with the first impression that this passage of your letter had made me when I read it." Position: "The purity of my intentions makes me strong; my lord, the arrows of distrust will not meet me; and if I hold fast to the order of the things that I want to make in Poland, it happens because in my conscience I have a deep conviction that I am doing even more to the advantage of the general best than to my own advantage." That answer was not enough. He won Prussia as a confederation, which had realized that it could not really rely on the English commitment to Saxony. As a result of this turning of Prussia, France suddenly saw itself enlisted by England and Austria, and the clever Talleyrand understood how to exploit the new situation and to make his country the leading power of Congress from the previous, only tolerated role. Alexander tried to move through his envoy in London, Count Lieven, the English ministers and the opposition to Cast lereagh's foreign policy, but England's peace agreement with the United States of North America, which took place in Ghent, gave England a completely different freedom of movement from the present.