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Russia was alienated Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 3:49:06 +0000
Austria itself, thoughoverpowered, had inflicted a deadly injury upon Napoleon, by withdrawinghim from Spain at the moment when he might have completed its conquest, andby enabling Wellesley to gain a footing in the Peninsula. Napoleon appearedto have gathered a richer spoil from the victories of 1809 than from any ofhis previous wars; in reality he had never surrounded himself with so manydangers. Russia was alienated by the annexation of West Galicia to thePolish Grand Duchy of Warsaw; Northern Germany had profited by the examplesof courage and patriotism shown so largely in 1809 on behalf of theFatherland; Spain, supported by Wellesley's army, was still far fromsubmission.

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Austria itself could only acquiesce Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 4:06:44 +0000
The old indifference which had smoothed the way for the earlierFrench conquests was no longer the characteristic of Europe. Theestrangement of Russia, the growth of national spirit in Germany and inSpain, involved a danger to Napoleon's power which far outweighed thevisible results of his victory.Austria itself could only acquiesce in defeat: nor perhaps would thepermanent interests of Europe have been promoted by its success.

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After having been the firstto Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 4:22:20 +0000
Thechampionship of Germany which it assumed at the beginning of the war wouldno doubt have resulted in the temporary establishment of some form ofGerman union under Austrian leadership, if the event of the war had beendifferent; but the sovereign of Hungary and Croatia could never be the truehead of the German people; and the conduct of the Austrian Government afterthe peace of 1809 gave little reason to regret its failure to revive aTeutonic Empire. No portion of the Emperor's subjects had fought for himwith such determined loyalty as the Tyrolese. After having been the firstto throw off the yoke of the stranger, they had again and again freed theircountry when Napoleon's generals supposed all resistance overcome; and inreturn for their efforts the Emperor had solemnly assured them that hewould never accept a peace which did not restore them to his Empire.

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Circumstances were changed Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 4:32:53 +0000
Iffair dealing was due anywhere it was due from the Court of Austria to theTyrolese. Yet the only reward of the simple courage of these mountaineerswas that the war-party at head-quarters recklessly employed them as a meansof prolonging, hostilities after the armistice of Znaim, and that up to themoment when peace was signed they were left in the belief that the Emperormeant to keep his promise, Austria, however, could not ruin herself toplease the Tyrolese. Circumstances were changed; and the phrases ofpatriotism which had excited so much rejoicing at the beginning of the warwere now fallen out of fashion at Vienna.

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Henceforward the policy of Austria was Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 4:46:32 +0000
Nothing more was heard about therights of nations and the deliverance of Germany. Austria had made a greatventure and failed; and the Government rather resumed than abandoned itsnormal attitude in turning its back upon the professions of 1809.Henceforward the policy of Austria was one of calculation, untinged bynational sympathies.

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A diplomatist was called topower Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 5:04:11 +0000
France had been a cruel enemy; yet if there was aprospect of winning something for Austria by a French alliance,considerations of sentiment could not be allowed to stand in the way. Astatesman who, like Count Stadion, had identified the interests of Austriawith the liberation of Germany, was no fitting helmsman for the State inthe shifting course that now lay before it. A diplomatist was called topower who had hitherto by Napoleon's own desire represented the AustrianState at Paris.

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Metternich had beenambassador at Dresden Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 5:19:53 +0000
Count Metternich, the new Chief Minister, was the son of aRhenish nobleman who had held high office under the Austrian crown. Hisyouth had been passed at Coblentz, and his character and tastes were thosewhich in the eighteenth century had marked the court-circles of the littleRhenish Principalities, French in their outer life, unconscious of theinstinct of nationality, polished and seductive in that personal managementwhich passed for the highest type of statesmanship. Metternich had beenambassador at Dresden and at Berlin before he went to Paris.

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He served Austriawell at Paris Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 5:35:12 +0000
Napoleon hadrequested that he might be transferred to the Court of the Tuileries, onaccount of the marked personal courtesy shown by Metternich to the Frenchambassador at Berlin during the war between France and Austria in 1805.Metternich carried with him all the friendliness of personal intercoursewhich Napoleon expected in him, but he also carried with him a calm andpenetrating self-possession, and the conviction that Napoleon would giveEurope no rest until his power was greatly diminished. He served Austriawell at Paris, and in the negotiations for peace which followed the battleof Wagram he took a leading part.

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Before thegrass had grown over Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 5:46:11 +0000
After the disasters of 1809, when war wasimpossible and isolation ruin, no statesman could so well serve Austria asone who had never confessed himself the enemy of any Power; and, with thefull approval of Napoleon, the late Ambassador at Paris was placed at thehead of the Austrian State.Metternich's first undertaking gave singular evidence of the flexibility ofsystem which was henceforward to guard Austria's interests. Before thegrass had grown over the graves at Wagram, the Emperor Francis waspersuaded to give his daughter in marriage to Napoleon.

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The Emperor Francis, who had Post Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 6:04:38 +0000
For some time pastNapoleon had determined on divorcing Josephine and allying himself to oneof the reigning houses of the Continent. His first advances were made atSt Petersburg; but the Czar hesitated to form a connection which hissubjects would view as a dishonour; and the opportunity was seized by theless fastidious Austrians as soon as the fancies of the imperial suitorturned towards Vienna. The Emperor Francis, who had been bullied byNapoleon upon the field of Austerlitz, ridiculed and insulted in everyproclamation issued during the late campaign, gave up his daughter for whatwas called the good of his people, and reconciled himself to a son-in-lawwho had taken so many provinces for his dowry.

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