ABSTRACT
Stanislaus Leczinski's tenure of the Polish throne had come to an abrupt conclusion, and the reestablishment of the Saxon dynasty at Warsaw had been effected without difficulty. Prussia's verbal protests met with little attention, and as she had no idea of embarking in the war on behalf of Sweden, she refrained from enforcing her words by blows. Neither the situation of his own kingdom nor that of Baltic affairs in general tempted Frederick William, the new "King in Prussia," to plunge at once into the Northern war. The twenty years of war which the Peace brought to an end afford in a way as striking an illustration of the weakness of Germany as does the treatment which the Empire received at Utrecht and Rastatt. Fought out though it was largely by German troops and on German soil, German interests played but little part in the struggle and received but little attention in the Peace.
