Trying to right the wrongs of the past and to prevent another occurrence in the future, the Congress of Vienna restored and simplified the map of Europe.
The Bourbon dynasties;
France as IOTL minus Corsica
Spain with the addition of Andorra and Portugal
the Two Sicilies
The barrier countries;
Sardinia with Corsica
Switzerland
the Netherlands
The Germanies
Austrian Empire with the Papal States, Tuscany, Modena, Parma, Bavaria, Wurttenberg, Baden and Cracow
Prussia with Saxony, the Saxon duchies, Mecklenburg, Lubeck, Hesse, Nassau and Franfurt
Hanover with Oldenburg, Brunswick and Hamburg
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Scandinavia; Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greenland
Russian Empire with Moldavia and Wallachia
In the New World the Latin Empire with the former King of Portugal as Emperor divided into 5 vice-royalties; Brazil, Rio de la Plata, Peru, New Granada and New Spain. Jamaica is included with New Spain and the other islands of the Greater Antilles, all islands of the Lesser Antilles goes to Great Britain. Florida offered to US in sail.
What do you wthink?
Let's start at the very beginning of this proposal:
The Bourbon Dynasties
1) France
could lose Corsica, AFAIK it was debated at Vienna to either give to the Grand Duke of Tuscany or someone else (duke of Savoy? king of Naples?), but it wouldn't go over well.
2) Why is Spain getting bigger? Is it as compensation for what it lost in the New World? The Spain you are proposing sounds an awful lot like the Napoleonic Spain, and if Vienna wants to turn back the clock to 1789, Spain's losing territory big time.
The Barrier Countries
1) Sardinia and Corsica. Not clear if this is Sardinia detached from Savoy and Corsica detached from France united into
one kingdom, or if it's merely Corsica united with Savoy-Sardinia. Either way, it's thin end of the wedge possible
2) Switzerland. Was a Republic. So unless someone's giving it a royal crown, and making it a much bigger deal than it was after OTL's Vienna, I can't see it happening. Added to that was the fact that Switzerland wasn't considered a barrier state (TMK).
The Germanies
Let's deal with this in further subsections:
1) Austria
1.1) Papal States: Nobody really wants them restored, but nobody could really figure out what to do with them OTL. The Marquis de Labrador (Spain's rep) was really the only one who spoke up for their restoration. In the end, IIRC, they were restored simply as a way of offsetting the Habsburg North with the Bourbon South
1.2) Italy (the Habsburgs or their cadets got this OTL, so I don't see a major change)
1.2.1) The remainders of Italy not covered: Milan/Lombardy, Venice? Who gets them? Who gets Dalmatia? No way is anyone going to sign off on Austria getting
all of what they did here
plus Lombardy-Venetia. It's gonna be an either-or scenario
1.3) Bavaria - the only thing that saved them OTL was the fact that they changed sides at the second-to-last minute (Saxony did it at the last minute and look what happened to them). Now, the Bavaria they're getting, is it 1789 Bavaria? Or Napoleonic Bavaria? And what happens to the Wittelsbachs? Do they get recompensated? Or do they just sulking in exile?
1.4. & 1.5.) Württemberg and Baden. No way on the side of blue hell is the Russian Emperor going to let the Austrian Emperor chase his relations (who
do have relations to the French Emperor) out of their realms. Württemberg OTL played a double-game, he was father-in-law to Jerome Bonaparte, cousin to Alexander I and son-in-law to George III. He was pretty much safe whichever way the cat jumped. Baden is more of the same. Their grand duke was related to the Russian, Swedish, Hessian, Bavarian and Brunswicker royal families. Even if the only one of those that counts in this scenario is the Russian one (and that's just through his daughters). Through his mother he was connected to the Prussian, Saxon, Hessian (another branch), Bavarian and Mecklenburger royal families. In other words, deposing him is going to set nearly every German duke
against Austria. Therefore, safer to leave him alone.
1.6) Cracow: Why?
2) Prussia
2.1.1) Saxony I get. What happens to the Wettins here?
2.1.2) The Saxon duchies? The duke of Weimar has the Russian Emperor as in-law. A good rule of thumb to have is simply to leave
anyone married to a Russian grand duchess alone.
2.2) Mecklenburg. (Schwerin) Same as said in 2.1.2.; Plus he's (Strelitz) also related to the British king. Two of the strongest powers in Europe on his side make him a bad person to try and depose.
2.3) Lubeck: Not sure why not
2.4) Hesse. Again the problem comes in with relations. The Hessians are related to the Prussians, the British and the Russians (abortively). I'm not saying any of them
would get involved on Hesse (or any of their other poor relations in Germany's behalf), but sometimes playing the bluff of saying 'don't mess with me, I've got a direct line to Berlin/London/St. Petersburg/wherever' can help. Besides, Darmstadt was historically pro-Austrian and Kassel was married to a Prussian princess.
2.5) What are the Netherlands getting in return for giving up their ancestral duchy?
3) Hannover
3.1) Oldenburg: King of Denmark's going to have something to say about this. So might the Russian emperor, the duke's brother is married to his favorite sister. Granted, the big four/five asked the king of Denmark to keep smiling when he gave away the Norwegian crown, so the stigma of a Napoleonic ally could cause them to do it.
3.2) Because of the duke's death at Quatre Bras, Hannover was
already ruling Brunswick as regent for the duke's underage son.
3.3) Hamburg: Not sure why not
3.4) Hanover-British relations. The British didn't
want more land on the continent. Parliament saw Hannover as a millstone around it's neck and a waste of money. However, George IV, as king/regent of Hannover could basically take the land and tell Parliament to shut-it, since their authority didn't extend beyond the Channel. The problem comes in with trying to defend said land when the next war rumbles along. AFAIK, there was an act of Parliament that specified that Britain wasn't responsible for Hannover's wars and
vice versa. In other words, the minute Britain decides to go to war with the duke of pinchbeck, Hannover's suddenly a lot bigger than it was before, so in theory, harder (read more costly) to defend.
United Kingdom of Scandinavia; Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greenland
1) Why is there this blob? Did Sweden annex Denmark-Norway (by marrying Oscar I to Vilhelmina of Denmark, or by Gustaf Vasa being chosen as heir to Denmark?) And Iceland and Greenland were only granted crowns in the 20th century (my Scandinavian history is not so good, so I might be wrong) on equal footing with the home country.
2) What has happened to the dynasty that got replaced, be it Oldenburg, Holstein, or Bernadotte? And why does any one feel that a new Kalmar Union will be a good idea (I'm not talking about the third, fourth and fifth estates in Scandinavia, but the kings at Vienna)?
Russian Empire with Moldavia and Wallachia
1) Doesn't that mean that they've still got to reconquer this first. Balkan history is not my forte (much like Scandinavian) so I couldn't say. If they don't it seems pretty poor compensation in comparison with most of OTL's Prussia
In the New World the Latin Empire with the former King of Portugal as Emperor divided into 5 vice-royalties; Brazil, Rio de la Plata, Peru, New Granada and New Spain. Jamaica is included with New Spain and the other islands of the Greater Antilles, all islands of the Lesser Antilles goes to Great Britain. Florida offered to US in sail.
No. No. No.
Britain's not giving away Jamaica. It was the "capital" of their empire in that hemisphere. Florida they might consider selling to the US. Or the US might just demand it in reparations after the War of 1812.
Brazil is
already on equal footing with Portugal as an independent crown. And while Carlota Joaquina might be eager to be queen of La Plata, enforcing rule over an entire continent (which is Spanish) is going to be a bit more difficult. Besides, Joao VI
blocked Carlota's attempts to become queen of La Plata OTL, besides the loss of his homeland to the Spanish (again!), why's he agreeing to get the rest of the Spanish empire? Plus, there's the fact that the Spanish Empire as it stood, AFAIK, was in the throes of revolution following Vienna, and before that against the Madrid government of Joseph Bonaparte. Chances are good that they pull a similar stunt here against being ruled from Rio.