1801, ] 
owing to the Jow price of provifions and 
forage. ‘The country alfo maintains feve- 
ral regiments of German cavalry. 
Thefe celebrated living walls, which 
defend the frontiers againft the Turks and 
their allies, this nation of foldiers who in- 
habit an extent of country more thana 
hundred German miles in length, thefe 
martial hufbandmen, who formed a perma- 
nent cordon from the Save to the Danube, 
are but little known even to the well-in- 
formed Hungarian. Mr. Schwartner de- 
feribes them with a laudable partiality. 
In time of war, they receive the fame 
pay as other regiments ; in peace, they 
live on the fruits of the land which is 
given them, and which they cultivate. 
Before the prefent war, the population 
of this body amounted to 420,c00 fouls, 
and the prince likewife pofleffed a ftanding 
army of 84,000 men, in feventeen regi- 
ments. They coft him nothing in time 
of peace ; and they are robuft and fkilful 
in arms, yndaunted, inured to conflant fa- 
tigue, and, being lefs delicate than other 
troops, they are lefs liable to. difeafe, 
wlilft their attachment to the foil and to 
their families prevents them from ever de- 
ferting. The greater part of them profefs 
the Greek religion. 
With regard to the article of fizances, 
Mr. Schwartner eftimates the grofs reve- 
nues of the ftate, from documents which 
he afferts to be highly authentic, to yield 
an annual produét of fifteen to fixteen 
millions of florins; from which, after de- 
ducting all expences, the remaining net pro- 
fit does not exceed 1,002,296 florins. 
The laft feétion of this work treats of 
public initeuction, fchools, general litera- 
ture, and the ftate of the hierarchy in this 
country. In the fixteenth century, the 
Proteftants and Jefuits gave fome impulfe 
to the mind of the inhabitants. 
Mr. Schwartner is, however, very much 
Giflztisfied with the education that the 
/ 
Account of Mr. Weinliz. 
5°9 
children receive in the Catholic {chools, 
where, ,according to him, they watfte five 
years in ftudying Latin very ill, which 
they feldom underftand at laf. 
Schools for public inftruétion are efta~ 
blifhed in Prefburg, Kafchau, Grofwar- 
dein, Funfkirchen, and Agram. The 
{cholars remain two years for philofophy, 
and as long forlaw. The Hungarian lan- © 
guage has been taught in them fince 1792. 
Hungary poflefles only one univerfity, 
that of Peft, which took its origin from 
the college which the Jefuits eftablifhed at 
Turnau. Before the reign of Maria 
Therefa, the government tock no concern 
in this inftitution, but, in 1770, the Em- 
prefs-queen charged Van Swieten with its 
reformation. In 1777, it was removed to 
Ofen (or Buda). Joleph If. chofe Pek 
for its feat, founded two Protefiant chairs, 
and his regulation and attention would 
have much added to its reputation, if, 
after the death of this Emperor, the 
younger Van Swieten and M. de Paftory 
had not been removed from the fuperin- 
tendance of this eftablifhment. ‘The au- 
thor’'thinks that it is now given up, but, in 
1792 and 1793, there were ftill 2831 ftu- 
dents. 
The Proteflant Schools are much poorer 
in revenues, in profeffors, and means of 
inftruction, than the high Catholic. 
Mr. Schwartner gives us but a low opi- 
nion of the profperity of Hungarian lite- 
rature. Scarcely can there be reckoned 
more than fifty living authors, including 
tranflators, and editors of periodical 
journals. 
The cruelties practifed- by the inquifi- 
tion are not known in Elungary but by re- 
port ; the Catholic churches and monatte- 
ries have long ceafed to be an afylum for 
robbers and aflaffins, and in general the 
eftablifhed Catholic religion fhews a fpirit 
of mild toleration, 
“MEMOIRS OF 
ACCOUNT Of MR. WEINLIG, CHIEF 
C CHITECT at DRESDEN. 
N the 25th of November, Drefdew 
loftin Mr. Weinlig, who died of a 
nervous fever, one of its moft elegant and 
inftructed artifts, and moft active and honeft 
men of bufinefs. He was of a rich, and 
in the annals of the capital of Saxony well 
known, family ; his father, burgomafter 
at Dre({den, was a true parent of his then 
MONTHLY MAG, NO, 740 
AR- 
EMINENT PERSONS. 
—=1 
often afflicted city; and his brother, who 
is {till alive, is an efteemed compofer. Mr. 
Weinlig enjoyed the advantages of a 
learned and liberal education, and in- 
firucted himfelf in his early years by the 
galleries of paintings, of medals, of prints 
and. copper-plates, with which the fine tafte 
and magnificence of the laft Kings of 
Poland and Electors of Saxony, Auguf- 
tus II, and Iti. have enriched and em- 
ci hale bellithed 
