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tiiht tlie work was both voluminous and 

 tedious. 



" f was alfo dotpvred by another cor- 

 fidcr.ition, imd this was, tlint ;is the au- 

 thor had iiitcly palled into the lervicc of* 

 the court ot' Vienna, it was not unlikely 

 that he wouUl depart trom his accultomed 

 iinpartiidity. I houci'er deterniiried to 

 r-ecur to his hibours, in reCpect to thofe 

 particulars ot" which he alone had L'i\eu 

 :iu account ; while, lur die ixll ot' the 

 materials, I rclbrted to tholfe. authentic 

 <"oiu-ces wiicniMi he iiliHi'cif iiad drawn all 

 Kis information.*' 



Huving tluis '.'iven an e^trai^i from the 

 ifltroduetion, it may be ncceli'ary to fay 

 lomething of the "work icfelf. This pro- 

 duction, then, refembles in a vari«-fy of 

 points of view, the " devolutions of Ita- 

 Jy.'' It is written with great purity of 

 liyle; and there reiirns an order and. a' 

 preeilion in the recital of tlie fat^ts, which, 

 JT) addition to the f(nind philofophyaiid po- 

 luical impartiality uhicji appears throuLdi- 

 feut, are peculiarly calculated to render 

 it iuftrmHive as well as aiunlinj. 



Vruvn the title it will be enlHv per- 

 ceived, that the aiithTji' does not defctnd 

 ■to minute parricahu's, but onlv notices 

 thofe fudden chaiiires which have taken 

 place in Gerniany, in rei'peit not only to 

 tiie fyftem of luiiitary alVairs, but to the 

 ftate of civilization, the interefts, and 

 confc<|uenrly the jiower, of rtmfc na- 

 tions who have occupied that valt ter''i- 

 tory. 



DcnLna commences with the wars of 

 tl'.e Romans agaiiilfc the Cimbri, in the 

 jcwv of Rome 613, and continitos to de- 

 fcribe ill fuccclfion thole event.^, both 

 civil and military, which have inlhienced 

 trfie ancient and modern Hate of CJer- 

 iiiany; The chief dithculty in a- work of 

 this kind, is to point out and afcertam 

 thofe grand and leadimj; events which 

 iiave iiiliucnced the military power of 

 nHti^tns, and at the faiiie time contiv 

 1)Uted to tilt' perfection of the arts and 

 fciences amonij them, as well as to no- 

 tice the various chances of their political 

 inliitutions ; and in this point of view 

 the author has exhibited diitinguifhed ta- 

 lents. 



In lefpeft to his ftyle, lie attempts in 

 the •ori;.;inal, a manner between that of 

 Voltaire and llobertfon. He refembles 

 the latter however, in one efli'iitial poiat, 

 Hill more thah the foriaer, as he is j)arti- 

 cidarly anxious to quote his authorities ; 

 •and like both, he is cai(;ful U) make ufe 

 of a lan^'uai^e bcfittinjr hiltory, as well as 

 -to interweave a certain lunnbcr of inte- 



reftiii2 eplfodcs, drawn up in a manned 

 that cannot fail to pleafe. 



I'iie work at prefent confifts of 6 vols. 

 Uvo. two more are now in the prefs, and 

 pcrha[>s the battles of Aulierlif/ and of 

 JenaVviil of tlicmfelves nMjuire a third. 

 When the whole is fmilhed, wc intend to 

 givfr a complete analylis. 



■" Hilfoire <le rOccu[)ation de la Tiavi- 

 il're, et doi Nei^ociatiuiis ijm ont precede 

 la Pa.ix de Tefchen, en 1773, par M; 

 Francois (de NEtJFciiArF.AU), Senateur, 

 Membre de I'Inltitut National." — A llif- 

 tory of the Occupation of Bavaria, and 

 of the Xeuociations which jneceded the 

 Peace of Tefchen, in 1778; by iM. I'ran- 

 yois (de I\eufchateau), Senator, and 

 Member of the National Inllitutc. 



'i'iie invalion of Bavaria by the empe- 

 ror Jofepli in 1778, is one of the molt 

 mtereftins; hiliorical details that ecciirred 

 during the ciL'litecnth centurv. It is not 

 only peculiarly remarkable when conli-! 

 dered by jtfelf, but alfo as formins; part 

 of that fvliem of ufurpation which has at; 

 length led to fuch difaltrous events and 

 untcH'tunate refults. The jarring politics, 

 to<), of the neichbourin;^ courts, the 

 marches, countermarches, and polltions, 

 of the refpeclive armies, togetlier with 

 the diplomatic intrigue and finelVe re^ 

 curred to on this occalioii, all tend ,to 

 develope the political interells and nxiW 

 tary tactics of that period. 



Accordiiiijiy, no iefs than three jrrcat 

 contemporary writers have Heated on 

 this fiibject; LhiL'uet, Mirabeau, and 

 Tre<lerick II. " 



By ihis treaty, concluded between ,To» 

 fepli II. Frederick II. king of PruHia, the 

 elector Palatme, and the duke of Deux- 

 I'onts, the elector I'alalinc was put in 

 poU'eiiiini of all the diftrifts wliich the 

 houlo i>f Aultria bad occupied with its 

 trovps. The convention of the 3d of Ja- 

 nuary 1773, by which a portion of the 

 ftates of Bavaria had been ceded, was 

 annulled ; and the lordlhip of Mindeli- 

 heim was abandoned to the elector, .to*- 

 gether with all the rii^hts of the crown of 

 Bohemia ia fefpect to the ieisjiiiories do- 

 pendant on the county of Schljnbtirir. Oh 

 the other hand, the eleCtoral-])alatine 

 huufe ceded in perpetuity to Auliria, the 

 \illagcs of Wildlhut and Braunau, toge- 

 ther with the town of that name, as well 

 as tiic villages ami territory lituate be- 

 tweeii the Dtumbc, the liin, and the 

 Sal/:i, 



All the territories occupied by Auftri.i 



and Prulila were nliored on both fidefS. 



Tiie rc-unioii of the mai;r;iviates of An- 



-1 N ^ Ipuck 



