The storm burst forth anew.

What right had Prussia thus to carry into effect a treaty which she had not ratified?
If her forces entered Hanover, his troops should forthwith occupy Ansbach, Cleves, and Neufchatel: if Frederick William meant to have Hanover, he should pay dearly for it.

But he would allow Haugwitz to see Talleyrand, so as to prevent an immediate war.[75] The calm of the Foreign Minister was as dangerous as the bluster of the Emperor.

Talleyrand was no friend to Prussia.

He had long known Napoleon's determination to press on a war between England and Prussia, and he lent himself to the plan of undermining the Hohenzollerns.