Show Famous P Peace Treaties By H. H IRVING KING Copyright 1918 1318 b by The McClure Newspaper c paper S Syndicate 1 C CONGRESS GnESS SS OK OP CO SECOND D Sl I After nt at V the Interrupted delegates c took up lip their orl ort again and His IZu- rope rop r of 01 the di of or tue people In II a aU U is destined Ii to tn brIll bring nr fore fure to InCI the Reign of oC the tho Hundred I A AFTER AFTEn Days an and the crushing defeat of oC Napoleon at Waterloo the congress congress congress con con- gress of oC Vienna reassembled bl tI meeting meeting- In June Wh when n the smoke of Waterloo had scarce scarcely cleared away The dele dele- gates gales ates came camo again to tho the council table table- with an appetite for Cor plunder whetted by tho rho exciting events e of the recess Thc They looked upon their former formes' work and found It IL good but capable of oC being Improved ed The Idea that the Italians Italian who were handed over o to a German rule Poles who were handed over to Prussia and Russian rule or oi the Norwegians Norwegians Nor Nor- who ho w ere wre re transfer transferred ed to tho rule o ot or Sweden should have o an any voice olce In the matter maller seems not noL to have ha c with the map mali makers I Largo Large ArgO armies were still gUll kept under underarms arms arias in 10 Prance France and Italy Murat the tha sergeant of marines whom horn Napoleon apoleon had made a marshal marthal o of France Franco and Icing king of oC Naples aples hind had deserted tho emperor em om- eror when things went against him In 1814 hoping thus to k keep ep his throne of Naples aples and the Two But lint Murat lurat knew kne that thal tho the con congress o of Vi Vienna Vienna YI- YI enna was seeking some excuse to oust him and dispose O of or his 1 kingdom dom that the they would by hook or crook find rind such an excuse e. e and so 80 when whon Napoleon broke out from l ho he declared for tor forthe the tho emperor Whereupon an allied arm army promptly drove ro o him out o of Naples Naples Na Na- ples plea No Now ow the congress I gave e Murat's 1 kingdom to that line lino of oC the tue Bourbons which had formerly reigned tl there whose misrule had been a scandal to Tho The congress spent silent a n ver very agreeable summer and fall In completing their work When hen It was concluded Austria had not on only northern Italy but Dul- Dul matla matia on the tha eastern castern shore of ot the thc Adriatic Adriatic Adriatic Adri Adri- confirmed to her Prussia which had h proved pro the tho most roost greedy land land- grabber of M f all the na had not only half of or Saxon Saxony and a slice of or Poland but hut tho the extensive o Rhino Rhine provinces pro and ami Swedish Sardinia was walt restored ro- ro stored d to the status o of a kingdom and 11 Genoa on the main land was wall as added to It II It Tho The territory of oC Switzerland was enlarged ed and tho the states of or tho the church restored to tho the pope Spain wits declared de declared de- de dared tho the rightful property of oC the thc Bourbons A Germanic conre confederation with Austria at Its head which embraced nm- nm braced all 11 Germany Germony except West CH and 1 East Kast Prussia and the tho tuch duchy of Posen was sas formed had Ceylon part rt of ot Guiana Capo Cape Colon Colony Malta Mauritius l etc confirmed to lien her herand and was given ghen a L protectorate over the Ionian lonian Islands of off Greece Greece- Having thus settled the tile affairs of or Europe the tho congress dissolved ed well pleased with lit Its work The peace pence of or Europe had been settled nettled as over every other oilIer peace had boon been on tho the basis of or what the continental clInt powers IIO ower were able to I I size for their own o a aggrandizement I and I left k as had predicted d I the seeds e 9 of blood bloody and revengeful wa wars aroM Napoleon apoleon fal said afterwards at St Helena of tile the British part palt In it il So sill silly I Ill a i treaty was wall never nc signed before beor they thoy gave ga up sip everything and got noth In ing g. g It was wa the exhaustion of oC Europe b. b by near nearly tw twenty nt year ears ear of oC war wal and the In In- longing ln of p people for rOl peace that enabled th th Ii arrangements of or the congress congress congress con con- gress ress of clr to bo bl c carried d out without without with with- out ut violent uprising on the tho part It of or ortho tho the b bartered nationalities I Tomorrow Treaty of Fountain inn or lilois H 1409 14 |