The Allgemeine Zeitung publishes a statement, which the demi- official
journal of Berlin characterizes as only inexact in form, upon the demand made by the Emperor of the French after the signature of the preliminaries of peace between Austria and Prussia. Prussia was requested, says this paper, to consider the propriety of compensating France with Saarlouis, Saarbriick, and their coalfields, the Palatinate, and Rhenan Hesse—territories which, be it remembered, contain Mayence and Landau. Prussia, moreover, was to resign her right of garrisoning Luxembourg—leaving that task, we presume, to the King of Holland. These proposals were rejected at once, and M. Drouyn de Lhuys, through whom they were made, was compelled to resign. The old difficulty about this statement still remains. What could have induced Napoleon to expose himself and France to the humi- liation of a demand certain to be refused ? That hints may have been given to Prussia as to what Napoleon would demand, should all Germany be united, is very probable, and may have been one reason why the Pruggians stopped short before Vienna.
