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in fuch a correét yet liberal manner, 
as fhall prepare them in every fitu- 
ation to advance the progre‘s of truth, 
“and to promote the welfare of mankind. 
Hackney, Fune 18. os Bae 

For t'e Monthly Magazine. 
MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OF 
AUSTRIA. 
BY its treaties, its alliances, its marri- 
ages, its fpoliations, its policy, and 
its good fortune, the Houfe of Auftria 
became the moft powerful family ever 
known in modern Europe. Its rife was 
the effort of ages; its influence enor- 
mous, yet ftationary, endured more than 
three centuries: its declenfion is the 
work of but a moment ! 
After long threatening the furround- 
ing nations, this Coloffus now lies prof- 
trate at the feet of an ancient rival, and 
fhorn * of its extremities, feels the life 
bicod of empire circulating only about 
the heart. 
It is with nations as with individuals, 
the grandeur of one neceffarily implies 
the depreffion of another; and it feems to. 
have been written in the book of Deftiny, 
that Auftria, which had fo often acquired 
a marked afcendancy over monarchical 
France, fhould bend before that fame 
France, become, almoft by a miracle, a 
Republic. 
Rodolph of Hapfbourg, an infignificant 
little Count, on the borders of the Black 
Foreft +, was the founder of this family 
in the 13th century. 
It was to his infignificance indeed, that 
he was indebted for his elevation to the 
Imperial throne, his territories being too 
inconfiderable to excite the jealoufy- of 
the German princes. As the want of 
power in one age became a qualification 
for fovereignty, fo by a rare inftance of 
good fortune, the poffeifion of immenfe 
authority reftored it to, and perpetuated 

* The Netherlands and Lombardy. 
+ Cette maifon fi ficre étoit 4 peine reputé 
noble, tandis que lilluftration des autres princes 
fe perdoit déja dans Ja nuit des tems: celle qui 
ne devoit mettre 2 fon empire que les bornes 
du monde, poffedoit un coin de la Foret Noire. 
Elle brille tout-d-coup d’un horrible éclat, 
comme ces aftres finiftres qui n’epparoiffent 
que pour le malheur de la terre, Ces princes 
out Vorgueil des parvenus : 
Afperius nihil eft humili, cam furg:t in altum. 
CLAUD. 
D: I Allemagne et de la Maifon d’ Autriche. 
Memoirs of the Houfe af Meapria 
{ June 
it in, this very houfe, inanother. Thus 
too, by a fingle ftroke of narrow and 
contemptible pclicy, the ele€tors, who 
withed only for a proteétor, gave them- 
{elves aumatter' =. 
The marriage of the archduke Maxi- 
milian, with the heireis of the houfe of 
Burgundy, in 1477, not only added to 
the grandeur of the fucceffors of the 
count of Hapfbourg, but aétually changed 
the face of all Europe. Charles V, 
haughty, auftere, vindictive, enterpriz- 
ing, and ambitious, after being per- 
fecuted during the better part of his life 
with the infatiable thirft of power, ex- 
changed his Imperial and royal crowns 
fora Monk’s cowl, and died at laf a 
madman. Spain, the Empire, Auftria, 
Bohemia, Lombardy, the Tyrol, the 
two Sicilies, the Low Countries, includ- 
ing Holland and Flanders, in the old 
world, and Mexico and Peru in the new, 
appertained at this period to the Houle 
of Auftria—a giant power, that feemed 
to rattle the chains of univerfal domi- 
nion over the heads of the pigmy ftates 
that furrounded it. Happily fer man- 
kind, moft of thofe territories, although 
{till emblazoned in the arms, and quar- 
tered in the efcutcheon affixed to the bo- 
fom of the black eagle, belong by 72ht 
of heraldry alone, to the head of the em- 
pire! But the Auftrian dominions were 
ftill extenfive and formidable, and-until 
the beginning of the prefent war, the 
Court of Vienna was confidered as one 
of the prepondei ating powers of Europe. 
Statifical Table of the Auftrian Monarchy, 
according to Profefar ZIMMERMANN. 
The whole - Areasin Popula- Ditto for 
of the Auf-- fq.muiles. tion. each {q. 
trian domi- mile. 
nions con- 
tain, + 180,496 19,611,000 1o9St.T. 

* “ Les éleGeurs, aveuglés par leur avarice, 
voulurent nommer un prince affez puiffant pour 
qu’il put fe paffer de leurs contributions. Im- 
prudens, qui Otoient a lautorité le feul frein 
qui put la contenir.”—-MMably Objerv. fier ? Bij. 
T. ii. See alfo Voltaire’s Efai fur Hifi. Geénére 
ave 
+ In the Monthly Magazine, No. II. ap- 
peared one of the moft correct fiatements ef the 
population of the Aufirian dominions that. has 
perhaps hitherto been publithed. It is there 
ftated to have been brought to England by Mr, 
Howard ; and the writer of, this ayticle under- 
ftands it was prefented to him while at Vienna 
by the Emperor Jofeph. That table makes the 
population of the Emperor’s dominions to be 
20, 372,000. 
A. Couns 
