e Confederation of the North, one of them
marching towards Nuremberg, where it would be joined by the western army
of Austria and the Italian forces sent through Tyrol. The other Austrian
army would then invade Saxony or Lusatia in order to strike at Berlin.
He estimated the forces of the States hostile to Prussia as follows:--

+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |Men. |Horses. |Cannon. |
+-------------------------------+------------+----------+----------+
|France |309,000 |35,000 |972 |
|Austria (exclusive of reserve) |360,000 |27,000 |1128 |
|Italy |68,000 |5000 |180 |
|Denmark |260,000 (?) |2000 |72 |
+-------------------------------+------------+----------+----------+

He thus reckoned the forces of the two German Confederations:--

+-------------------------------+------------+----------+----------+
| |Men. |Horses. |Cannon. |
|North |377,000 |48,000 |1284 |
|South |97,000 |10,000 |288 |
+-------------------------------+------------+----------+----------+

but the support of the latter might be hoped for. Lebrun again urged the
desirability of a campaign in the autumn, but the Archduke repeated that
it must begin in the spring. In that condition, as in his earlier
statement that France must declare war first, while her allies prepared
for war, we may discern a deep-rooted distrust of Napoleon III.

On June 14 the Archduke introduced Lebrun to the Emperor Francis Joseph,
who informed him that he wanted peace; but, he added, "if I make war, I
must be forced to it." In case of war Prussia might exploit the national
German sentiment existing in South Germany and Austria. He concluded
with these words, "But if the Emperor Napoleon, compelled to accept or
to declare war, came with his armies into South Germany, not as an enemy
but as a liberator, I should be forced on my side to declare that I
[would] make common cause with him. In the eyes of my people I could do
no other than join my armies to those of France. That is what I pray you
to say for me to the Emperor Napoleon; I hope that he will see, as I do,
my situation both in home and foreign affairs." Such was the