the South Germans from the 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,