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aign againft the Turks, in which. he 
ferved along with his uncle, whofe ta- 
vourite he was. Before he afcended the 
throne, he was reported to be a mild and 
ventle prince; but kis late conduct to- 
wards the family of the gallant but un- 
fortunate La Payette, whom he ftill con- 
fines in a dungeon, has caft a temporary 
veilover his humanity. It was not in this 
manner that Jofeph endeavoured to ac- 
uire reputation—it was by his bounty 
ro individuals that he {trove to obliterate 
his injuftice towards whole nations ; and 
his munificence to the oppreffed w idow 
who followed him from Vienna to Paris, 
acquired him more glory than he could 
have reaped from a fortunate battle ! 
itis to the forefts of Germany that 
ritaim is indebted for her original laws 
and original liberty, and yet this very 
see ry has for ages bowed its neck at 
e feet ay ‘Tyranny and Superftition. Her 
{ 
cre once free, and it was the peo- 
pie a. formerly elected the Empcror ; 
but 12¢ Cup-Bearer, the Grand Sezer, ibe 
ar 
Grea: Goa zi ber iati, the Arch-Treafurer, the 
CSancellor, 18e Grand Chancellor, and* the 
Grand Steward,—the feven great officers 
of the’ empire, took it into their heads in 
1239, that they reprefented the /evex 
pifis of the boly [pitt it, and were bevond all 
doubt the candicfcks with the fever 
éranches mentioned in fcripture; they 
accordingly concentrated all the powers 
in their own hands, and fold, bartered, 
or conferred the vacant throne at plea- 

fure ; the people in return quoted the 
bible, and atirmed, that the feven elec- 
tors were the feven de adly fis, and the 
beaff couith the feven beads mentioned in 
the Revelations. To prevent the effects 
of fo ferious a joke, an eighth was added: 
in 1649, and a ninth-In 1692. ‘The 
Landerave of Hefle has been long foli- 
giting this dignity from the Court of 
Vienna, but there would be fome danger 
in the decadary number, es it would intal- 
lib cmiind the mation of the monfier 
euilh the ica horas, and the pride of the 
Im mper rial and Eleétorial courts would be 
offended by fo coarfe an allufion. 
Dat 
in eh mean time, the empire has be- 
come nearly ripe for a revolution. In 
the hereditary dominions the /and-/few- 
ards of the Emperor are received with 
the meft* flavifa re peer, while in the 



* T have been told by a gentleman lately ar- 
rived frm Hungary, that in the neighbour- 
hood of Buda, he beheld the peafants kiffing 
the Jappet of the coat of a German Collefter, in 
token of fubjeion ! 
Mathematical Correfpondence. 
_means of books and commerce. — 
a 
[June 
proteftant circles and the free cities, the 
minds of the people are illuminated by 
The re- 
volution in France has anticipated the ac- 
quifitions of a whole century 1! 
Shall Germany. which has enlightened- 
mankind, remain in darknefs herfelf- 
Shall the: country of Schwartz, of Gutten~ 
burg, of Leibnitz, of Eulex, of Cop oper- 
nicus, and of Luther, who have effetted: 
moft, if not all the great changes..which _ 
have taken place within thefe three. ceq-: 
turies, in literature, the fciences, and re-. 
ligion, ee fteeped in the abyls. of. fla- 
Lexy a 4 
The nee of this “unwieldy Soden 
becomes daily more debilitated. Flap-- 
ders is gone for ever ; Lombardy at leat 
for a time 3 and if the Emperor Francis 
II, imitating the policy of ‘his grandme- 
ther Maria Therefa, when fhe gave up 
Silefia, dees not cede part of his domi- 
nions to fave the remainder, he will ha- 
zard either the fubjugation or the ex- 
franchifement of the empire. His fate, _ 
like the fwerd of Damecles, is fufpended 
by athread. The lofs of a decifive bat- 
tle on the Rhine might fhake the very 
foundation of his throne, defeat the fuc- 
ceffion of his infant fon, and once more 
bereave the houfe of Auftria of the ho-, 
nours of the Imperial diadem. ; 
Fune-z, 27G8- AL 

MATHEMATICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
To Mr.O. G. GREGORY. 
SIR; 
T Requeft of you to receive my fincere 
thanks for your remarks on Mr. 
Search’s letter, as well as the fupport 
which you'have given to my opinions.— 
Peis) 2 ee to have a bad name, 
and becaufe I am no conjuror, notwith- 
fianding the accurate proof which I have 
given that nothing is equal to two, there 
are fome fupid fe cllows who will not be- 
lieve it. The womeh too bring forward 
their filly’reafons. Nothing, fay they, 
cannot be equal to any thing: and wht 
not, Mrs. Wileacre ? faysI. Becaufe it 
can't, they reply ; and net aword far- 
ther can you get from them. and if-yop 
were to talk to them till doomfday, they, 
+ To tax the,poor at the+fame rate as_the 
rich, muit be deemed an indifputable~proof of 
oppreffion , and yet this.is confefied to be the 
cafe by reipectable German Writers ta Les 
impots jont pofés de manitre gus le. fils jawure 
Paye autant gue le plus riche, RIESBECK.. 
are 

