The Paris Press of Thursday reproduces a letter of very
great interest, which was published in the July number of the Revue des Deux Monde; written in 1870 after Sedan by Emile 011ivier, Prime Minister of France, to the King of Prussia. The letter contains the following prophetic passage :— "If you touch our territory you open a now Thirty Years' War. If you are disinterested you prepare an indissoluble alliance of the Latin and German races. If you behave as a conqueror you are preparing against Prussia an alliance of the Slav and Latin races. God punished us for allowing our long prosperity to sap our virility. He will punish your people and your race swollen by victory. Don't scorn my words, Sire, because they are those of a vanquished man. Napoleon after Jena. scorned the vanquished. They replied by Waterloo."
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