the Treaty of Paris was satisfactory to Castlereagh. His principal goals had been achieved: France had been forced back within her historic frontiers, Holland had been enlarged to include Belgium and the Scheldt estuary, and the Prussian presence on the Rhine had been reinforced, though the details were still to be fixed. And with her acquisition of Malta, the Cape Province, Tobago, St Lucia and Mauritius, Britain had acquired complete strategic control of the Mediterranean and the sea routes to the West and the East Indies.
