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Revenues and military force. ...Both the military force and 

 revenue of the emperor, merely as the head of the Germanic league 

 or Roman empire, are very inconsiderable. He has only an annual 

 income of about 5000 or 6000/. sterling, arising from some inconsider- 

 able fiefs in the Black Forest, and some trifling contributions from 

 the imperial cities, of which, it is said, scarcely 2000/. come into the 

 imperial treasury. The extraordinary revenues levied on the dif- 

 ferent states are called Roman months, because they were formeiry 

 raised by monthly assessments, for the maintenance of the troops who 

 escorted thp emperor to Rome, when that was the place of his coi'ona- 

 tion. A Roman month is about 5000/. and a certain number of these 

 sums is paid by each state, according to the proportions for the dif- 

 ferent princes and states registered in what is called the matricula-* 

 lion-book, kept by the arch-chancellor of the empire. 



In the same book are registered the contingents or number of troops 

 to be raised by each state, when war is decreed by the diet. These 

 together would compose an army of about 30,000 men ; but the whole 

 force of the empire, were it exerted in one effort, would amount, ex- 

 clusive of those countries which, though subject to German princes,, 

 are not a part of Germany, to 400,000 men : and the revenues of the 

 different princes and states of the empire, with the same limitation* 

 have been estimated at above sixteen millions sterling. 



The revenues of the electorates and principal states of the empire, 

 and the military force usually maintained by them, according to the 

 latest and most authentic accounts, are as follow : 



Princes. 



Revenue. 



Military Force. 



Elector of Saxony 



1,250,000/. 



32,000 



Elector of Bavaria 



1,200,000 



28,000 



Elector of Hanover 



960,000 



18,000 



Elector of Wurtemberg 



600,000 



7000 



Elector of Baden 



400,000 



400O 



Elector of Hesse 



300,000 



12,000 



Elector of Salzburg 



300,000 



2500 



Elector arch-chancellor 



100,000 





Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle 



280,000 



3500 



Dukes of the house of Saxony 



277,000 



1300 



Dukes of Mecklenburg 



230,000 



1500 



Princes of Hohenlohe 



150,000 





The electors of Brandenburg and Bohemia (the king of Prussia and 

 head of the house of Austria) are not included in this list, as their 

 revenues and armies are raised from the whole of the Prussian and 

 Austrian dominions. 



Imperial, royal, and other titles, arms, and orders. ...The 

 emperor of Germany pretends to be successor to the emperors of 

 Rome, and has long, on that account, been admitted to a tacit prece- 

 dency on all public occasions among the powers of Europe. Austria 

 is but an archdukedom ; nor has he, as the head of that house, a vote 

 in the election of emperor, which is limited to Bohemia. Innumera- 

 ble are the titles of principalities, dukedoms, baronies, and the like, 

 with which he is vested as archduke ; and he by a patent bearing date 

 the 10th of August, 1804, assumed the title of hereditary emperor of 

 Austria. The arms of the empire are a black eagle with two heads 

 hovering with expanded wings in a field of gold ; and over the heads 



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