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 IX TlIK WAIt AGAINST KUSSIA. 83 she could act with irresistible pressure upon the chap. invader of the rriucipalities. On the Gth and 22d L, of Februar}'' she reinforced her army on the fron- tier of Wallachia by 50,000 men, and thus placed the Russian army of occupation completely at her mercy. On the day when she sent that last rein- forcement into the Banat, she had grown so im- patient of the further continuance of the Russians in the Principalities that she actually pressed Prance and England to summon Paissia to quit the Principalities under pain of a declaration of war, and undertook to support their summons.* Prussia was approving; and on the 25th, Baron Manteuffel wrote to Count Arnim at Vienna ' on ' the subject of a more decided policy which ' it was supposed the Austrian Government was ' about to adopt in the affairs of the East, and ex- ' pressed the satisfaction of the Prussian Govern- ' ment at the interests of Germany on the Danube ' being likely to be so warmly espoused.'-j- On the 2d of March the French Emperor had so little doubt of the concurrence of Austria and Ger- many, that he announced it in his speech from the Throne. ' Germany,' said he, ' has recovered ' her independence, and has looked freely to see ' whither her true interests led her. Austria ' especially, who cannot see with indifference the ' events going on, will join our alliance, and will ' thus come to confirm the morality and justice of ' the war which we undertake. We go to Con-
 * stantinople with Germany.'
 * ' Eastern Papers,' part vii. p. 53. t Ibul. p. 60,