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she extricated herself by renouncing the 
possession of that electorate, and turning 
her arms against’ France. ‘To recapitu- 
late the distressing events of that disas- 
trous war, Is unuccessary. Prussia loses 
by the peace of Tilsit, 
1. South Prussia, or that part of Po- - 
land which she had acquired at the par- 
tition of 1795. Three years before the 
war it contained 1,388,000 inhabitants, 
on an extent of 4,406 English square 
miles, 
2. New East Prussia, or that part of 
~ Poland which she had acquired in 1795, 
at the final partition of that kingdom. 
Tn the year 1798 it contained 797,000 in- 
habitants, upon an extent of 3,578 En- 
glish square miles. 
3. That part of the Netz district in 
West Prussia, which is situated to the 
south ofa line drawn from Dresden, in 
the New Mark of Brandenburg, through 
Schneidemiihl,to the Vistula, below Grau- 
dentz. It had been acquired from Po- 
fand at the first partition, in 1772, and 
may be supposed to contain 239,000 in- 
habitants on an extent of about 190 En- 
glish square miles. 
These three countries constitute, ‘at 
present, the Grand Dukedom of Warsaw, 
which has been given to Saxony; a cir- 
cumstance calculated to aggravate the 
bitterness of the loss, for Prussia is ob- 
liged to allow a free passage to the Saxon 
troops through Silesia, as often as they 
change quarters from Saxony to Poland, 
and back again. A military road is ap- 
propriated for that purpose. With the 
addition of this dukedom, Saxony has 
now a populaticn of four nullions and a 
half, upon an extent of 17,400 English 
square miles. An anecdote, which has 
been circulated on the Continent, that 
the Queen of Prussia, a few days alter 
her arrival at Tilsit, found one day at din- 
ner, while the treaty of peace was in ayi- 
tation, a slip of paper on her plate with 
the following few words, written by the 
conqueror: ‘* La Silésie reste a Ja Prus- 
se,” “ Silesia continues a Prussian pro- 
vince,” wouldindicate, if true, that Sile- 
sia, which lies contiguous to Saxony, was 
first intended to be given to that power: 
but that the queen, recollecting, perhaps, 
what old Frederick had said to her 
royal husband when a child, exerted the 
always irresistible power of beauty in 
tears, to retain for her consort the posses- 
Sion of that valuable country. The young 
prince playing with a battle-door in his 
great-uncle’s study, the shuttlecock fell 
frequently on the table at which the 
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The Present State of Prussia, 451. 
old king was writing. At last the mo- 
narch put it into his pocket, and the 
prince demanded it back in a rather pe= 
reinptory tone, when Frederick returned 
il, saying: “ Here is your shuttlecock, 
Sir, I see you will never suffer Silesia to 
be retaken from you.” 
Prussia further loses, 
4. The town of Dantzic, with a terri- 
tory of nearly twenty-nine English square 
miles and a population of 50,000 indivi~ 
duals. It had been only fourteen years 
in the possession of Prussia. It is now 
restored to its ancient rank, that of a free 
Hanseatic city, under the nominal pro- 
tection of Prussia and Saxony; but, in 
reality, under tlre controul of France, on 
one of whose marshals it confers the ti- 
tle of duke. Aslongas the port of Dant- 
zic continues shut against the English 
the recovery of its ancient commercial 
importance is impossible. 
5. The Old Mark, one of the four sub- 
divisions of the Electoral Mark of Bran- 
denburg, situated on the left bank of the 
Elbe. It contains 114,000 inhabitants, 
on a territorial extent of 285 English 
square miles. 
The loss of this province must be ex- 
tremely galling to the King of Prussia; 
it was the cradle of the power of the 
Marggraves of Brandenburg, in whose pos- 
session it had been several years before 
they acquired the electoral dignity. The 
Old Mark is to form a part of the new 
kingdom of Westphalia. 
6, The Circle of, Cotbus and Peitz, in 
Lusatia, which has an extent. of abaut 
eighty ailes, and contains two towns, and 
116 villages, with a population of 33,260 
individuals. It used to be considered as 
belonging to the New Mark of Branden- 
burg; but it was completely detached 
from the Prussian dominions, and sur- 
rounded on all sides by the territory of 
the present kingdom of Saxony, to which 
it has been ceded. 
7. Lhe city of Magdeburg, and that 
part of the duchy of the same name which 
is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 
together with the town and university of 
Halle, and the county of Mansfeld, con- 
taining altovether about 170,000 inhabi- 
tants upon an extent of 275 Englishsquare 
miles. 
The loss of these provinces, thouzh 
their extent be not considerable, will yet 
be doubly felt. Magdeburg was the ouly 
strong bulwark of Prussia on the Elbe, 
and the salt springsof Halle,Schoenebeck, 
and Saltze, abundantly yielded an article 
which Prussia must new purchase from 
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