308 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



with fervour his lowly veneration 

 for the supreme Being, to whom 

 he owed all his many blessings, and 

 the great prosperity he enjoyed. 

 His piety was highly extolled at 

 Zuric when, at a solemn festival, 

 he exhibited to the assembled mul- 

 titude many relics of the cruci- 

 fixion. The new Augustin hermits 

 whom he established in this city, 

 and many other religious orders on 

 whom he conferred ample dona- 

 tives, spread the fame of his godli- 

 ness throughout the land. 



Account of the Emperor Rudolph's 

 Death. From ike same. 



IN the eighteenth year, after ' the 

 grace of God,' as he described 

 his exaltation, ' had raised him 

 from the huts of his ancestors to an 

 imperial throne,' in the seventy- 

 fourth year of his age, was Rudolph 

 first attacked with symptoms of a 

 dangerous maladv. He was hasten- 

 ing to Spire to repose, as he in- 

 timated, amidst the tombs of many 

 preceding kings and emperors, when 

 his fate met him at Gemersheira on 

 the Rhine, a town of his own foun- 

 dation. His hereditary dominions 

 had been enlarged by the acquisi- 

 tion of Kyburg, Lensburg, Baden, 

 Zoffingen, and several advocacies : 

 but his greatest accessions he owed 

 to his victories over Ottocarus king 

 of Bohemia, margrave of Moravia, 

 and duke of Austria, Stiria, Carin- 

 thia, and Carniolia, who had op- 

 posed his election to the empire. 

 Five years after he had reduced 

 that power,* the king, adorned with 

 all the pomp of royalty, and sur- 

 rounded by all the princes, whose 



concurrence was indispensable in 

 all new regulations in the empire, 

 seated himself on his throne in the 

 palace at Augsburg, and declared, 

 ' that in order to enable his sons, 

 Albert and Rudolph, to display the 

 full extent of their inviolable loyal- 

 ty and zeal for the glory of the 

 empire, he had resolved to raise 

 them to an eminent rank in the col- 

 lege of princes.' Hereupon, in the 

 plenitude of his power, and with 

 the consent of the electors, he in- 

 vested them, by the delivery of 

 banners, with the dukedoms of Aus- 

 tria, Stiria, the Windismark, and 

 Carniolia : he soon after granted 

 them also the margraviate of Bur- 

 gau. To such eminence rose a 

 single count, of a race whose very 

 name had scarce reached the con- 

 tiguous countries. By the enlarge- 

 ment of his bounds to the farther- 

 most confines of Alsace and Austria, 

 he in a manner hemmed in all Up- 

 per Germany, and kept in awe the 

 French king, and many of the Sla- 

 vian princes. His house, by his 

 address and wisdom, rose to a 

 power which gradually subdued 

 nations and countries, the very ex- 

 istence of which was then unknown. 

 No race has so often endangered 

 the freedom of Europe: and its 

 splendid career has never met with 

 anjr check, but what it derived from 

 its own neglect of that moderation, 

 which had ever been the great art 

 of Rudolph. 



Parallel between the Literary Cha- 

 racters of Fontenelle and La 

 Moite : from Dr. Aikin's Tran- 

 slation of D' Alemhert' s Eulogies. 



December 22, 1282. 



