316); and to these he now added another which guaranteed the existing possessions of every State, great or small.
Napoleon was taken aback by this boldness, which he attributed to the influence of Spanish affairs and to English intrigues.[341] On August 9th he summoned Bubna and offered to give up the Duchy of Warsaw--provided that the King of Saxony gained an indemnity--also the Illyrian Provinces (but without Istria), as well as Danzig, if its fortifications were destroyed.

As for the Hanse Towns and North Germany, he would not hear of letting them go.

Bubna thought that Austria would acquiesce.

But she had said her last word: she saw that Napoleon was trifling with her until he had disposed of Russia and Prussia.

And, at midnight of August 10th, beacon fires on the heights of the Riesengebirge flashed the glad news to the allies in Silesia that they might begin to march their columns into Bohemia.