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no reafon to boaft of his conquefts. The prefeiit Emperor, 

 though he did not entirely abandon the military enterprifes 

 of his brother, has profecuted them with lels ardour, and 

 more caution than formerly. He feems to be anxious to 

 keep up his conne£lions with Ruflia, not fo much with the 

 capricious view of extending his dominions beyond the Da- 

 Kube, as of forming a balance to check, the proponderating 

 power of PrulTia, which he feems to dread. Hitherto his 

 conduft has been rather more cautious than might have been 

 expected from the general tenure of his political fyfiera in 

 Tufcany, and he has had the addrefs, net only to favour 

 the views of his ally in Poland, without giving umbrage to 

 Pruflia ; but alfo to gain over that power to acquiefce in 

 the plan he had adopted for recovering his former influence 

 in the Belgic provinces, which rauft now again fubmit to be 

 governed by the court of Vienna. 



The court of Drefden, and- the fmaller 'fiates in Germa- 

 ny, enjoy at prefent a profound tranquility, the Eifhop of 

 Liege alone excepted. There, the people have afferted their 

 claim to certain privileges to which the Prince Eifhop does 

 not think, they have a juft title. Popular commotions were 

 likely to enfue; and the BKhop thought it prudent to with- 

 draw himfelf from a iloim, that he imagined threatened hi-, 

 petfon, had he remained among them : by this means blood- 

 fhed has been avoided. The other powers of Germany are 

 now preparing to interfere in this difpute j and there is little 

 room to doubt that the prince will be reinftated, and the 

 people proteded in their juft claims by t:.e powerful media- 

 tion of princes, whofe award mult be accepted as a law to 

 IjOth the parties in this difpute. 



Prujza. 

 Frederic the Second, after a long life fpent in a perpetu- 

 al druggie to augment his power, and extend his dominions, 

 by a prudence of condudt which nothing but a vigorous 

 mind could infpirc, not only extended the limits of his em- 

 pire, but augmented the profperity of his people by every 

 mean that was confiltent with a defpotic power in govern- 

 ment: a power which even tliis great man had not forti- 

 tude of mind to.relinquidi. At the time of his death, his 

 dominions were at peace j his army in the beft order, and 

 hi^ coficrs full. He was then bulled in endeavouring, by 



