THE FIRST SECRET TREATY.
The following remarkable letter we take from the Glasgow Herald : — ! Sib, — In a letter written by the late Baron Bunaen (at that time Prussian Am- ! bassador in London) to Baron Stockmar, the intimate friend of the Jate Prince Consort, in 1852, occurs the following passage (Bunsen's Life, voL 11., p. 277. Longman. 1868) : — " The President offers through Persigny (in exchange for the Rhine frontier and Belgium), to Prussia, Hanoverand Oldenburg ; to Austria, Moldavia and 'WaUachia; to Russia, Constantinople." It will be observed that shortly after the rejection of this offer came the Russian war, as now comes the German. The transaction above referred to took place in the reign of the late King of Prussia, and when Count Von Bismarck was of small account in the kingdom ; and it serves to show with what persistency Napoleon 111. holds to his designs, and that none of his published opinions should be neglected. — Tours, <fee. ,- -- -"""■, JE&SILWABD. Glasgow, 1 5fh- A —^870.
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Southland Times, Issue 1336, 18 November 1870, Page 3
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163THE FIRST SECRET TREATY. Southland Times, Issue 1336, 18 November 1870, Page 3
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