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EUROPE. 



I. THE DIVISIONS OF EUROPE IN 1789. 



II. THE DIVISIONS OF EUROPE IN 1812. 



* Prussia was entirely unencumbered by any debt, and 

 Imd, besides, a balance in the treasury of about $42,000,000. 

 The republic of Poland comprised at that period, 1. Great 

 Poland, consisting of the provinces of Warsaw, Posen, 

 Kalisch, Gnesen, and Polozk ; 2. Little Poland, with the 

 provinces of Cracow, Czenstochau, Lublin, Chelm, Luck, 

 and Kaminieczk ; S.Lithuania, consisting of the provinces 

 of Wilna, Grodno, Kovno, Brzesc, and Minsk ; 4. The free 

 cities of Dantzic and Thorn, with their dependencies ; 5. 



The Grand-duchy of Courland and Semgallen. Previous 

 to 1772, Poland had an areal extent of 289,145 square 

 miles, and a population of from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000. 



t Prussia, which was not allowed to have a standing 

 army of more than 42,000 men, was compelled to contrib- 

 ute a contingent of 20,000 men to the army of the first 

 Napoleon, at the opening of the Russian campaign ; while 

 Austria had to place 30,000 men at the disposal of Napo- 

 leon, out of an army not exceeding 150,000 men. 



