He Therefore Returned To Dresden; And
Napoleon Took Up His Grand Position The Whole Length Of The Elbe, From The
Mountains Of Bohemia To Hamburgh, Thus Covering The Whole Of Saxony With
His Army.
Austria however at last comes forward to join the coalition.
Fortune changes; the Saxon troops, tired of beholding their
Country the
perpetual theatre of war and trusting to the generosity of the Allies, go
over to them in the middle of a battle, and decide, thereby, the fate of
the day at Leipzig. The King of Saxony is made a prisoner, and then he is
punished for what he could not help. Why was he to be punished more than
any other member of the Confederation of the Rhine? One would think that
the seasonable defection of his troops at Leipzig should have induced the
Allies to treat him with moderation. The other States of the Confederation
did not abandon Napoleon until after he was completely beaten at Leipzig;
and Austria refused to accede to the coalition until a carte blanche was
given her to help herself in Italy.
Let every impartial man therefore review the whole of this proceeding and
then say whether the King of Saxony, so proverbial for his probity, so
adored by his subjects, deserved to be insulted by such an unfeeling letter
as that of Castlereagh. No! the King of Saxony better deserves to reign
than any King of them all. Would they had even a small share of his
virtues!
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