Metternich- The First European by Desmond Seward

Author:Desmond Seward
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Thistle Publishing
Published: 2015-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

Two days ago I saw peasants working in the fields with no clothing save a shirt, children as old as four sitting naked in the fields their parents were tilling. The first little Silesian I met had on a nice cap and frock, and was carried by a mother in a good coat with thick red worsted stockings and stout shoes. I could have cried over the first and hugged the others.

But as soon as he got to Vienna he collapsed. Jäger told him it was due to worry and that he must give up work. His lungs were still affected. He was depressed by news from England and about Canning's behaviour. 'He's certainly a very awkward opponent but I've faced much more dangerous.' (A few weeks later he observed, 'What irritates me about the English is that they're all slightly mad, something we have to put up with, pretending not to notice the ridiculous side.') Deep despondency set in just before Christmas—'It's a sad fate for a statesman always to have to battle his way through never ending storms.'

He was irritated by news of the Monroe Doctrine. In his Message to Congress of 2 December 1823 President Monroe—inspired by Secretary John Quincy Adams—had declared that America was for the Americans and that intervention by the Alliance to recover Spain's former American colonies would be seen as 'the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States'. Metternich wrote to Baron Lebzeltern that there had come to pass what he had long feared:

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