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population by the Hugtenots of France, 
and the emigrants from the empire who 
are ill used by their petty tyrants of 
‘Sovereigns? 
I said to our generals: “Cannot you, 
to spare the emmperor’s subjects, raise re- 
vgiments of ‘lurks, Poles, Prussians, 
Saxons, and Teulians, by inducing them 
to desert, and enlisting deserters: raise 
-an Hungarian, Austrian, Bohemian, and 
Walloon army, with none but officers of 
their respective nations to keep alive 
emulation; give furloughs to native sub. 
jects ; keep Up strong garrisons at Vienna, 
‘Presbarg, Olinutz, Gratz, Lintz, Brussels, 
Duxemburg, and Milan; form an en- 
trenched camp on each frontier, since 
fortresses are too expensive; and encou- 
rage the breeding of horses, that money 
may not be carried out of the country? 
Report has given a mistress to Charles 
VI. as to any other person—the Spanish 
Altheim, thoughshe was no more his mis- 
tress than the Italian lady was mine for- 
merly, or than Bathiany is now: but 
as his friend £ said to her: “ Cannot you 
persuade the emperor to gain the love of 
the electors and first princes of the em- 
pire ; to draw them to Vienna by magni- 
ficent fétes; to give them the order of 
the fleece, or some other totheir ministers, 
or culours to their bastards, and pensions 
’ handsome recruiting-officers to their 
sititheaeens 
To the emperor I said: “ Prevent. the 
Prussians, sire, from rising ; the Russians, 
from forming and: acquainting themselves 
with our affairs; and the French from 
gaining the preponderance. Your mo- 
narchy is rather stragyling; but for that 
very reason it adjoins the north, the 
south, and the east. It is moreover in 
the centre of Europe, to which your ma- 
jesty ought to give law. 
1726.— After having been a soldier, 
minister, grand vizier, financier, postilion, 
Neyociator, [was at last made a merchant, 
T established the Ostend company, which 
the gold arid jealousy of the maritime 
powers caused afterwards to be suppress- 
- eds and another at Vienny, to traffic, ex- 
port, and navigate, upon the Danube and 
Adriatic sea, where I converted Trieste 
into a port capable of containing two 
squadrons of men ‘of war, to escort and 
‘protect the merchant vessels. I directed 
other small ports, or at least shelters, to 
be formed in the galf of Venice, the 
advantages of which were acknowledged 
by the whole monarchy. 
1727.—I spent the whole year in con- 
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business ; in drawing them over from fo- 
reign countries ; in writing to England and 
Holland, for the purpose of establishing 
good commercial houses at. Qsiend and 
Antwerp; and to Spain, Tialy, and even 
Turkey, with a view to establish others 
at Trieste and Vienna. This interested, 
amused, and occupied me exceedinily. 
I frustrated the miserable plans of our 
ministers of finance, who had never 
studied or travelled. I occasioned the 
settlement among usof consuls, a kind of 
people to whom we alone were before 
strangers. I formed studs in Hungary 
and Bohemia, for breeding horses, that 
money might not be sent out of the 
country + and I can affirm that the em+ 
peror’s affairs never went on so well, and 
perhaps never will again, as they did 
during these ten years. 
1729.—To complete my work (at 
Trieste) I had to battle a good deal with 
the too-righieous Catholics and large wigs 
of this country. The Jesuits are “indul- 
gent when you know how tc manage them. , 
They were very useful to ne in procuring 
a cessation of the persecutions practised 
upon the Protestants in my fleet, who 
were forbidden the exercise of their reli- 
gion. The only sailors left me were 
those who had none at all, or hypocrites. 
This was still worse; for how could I trust 
these two classes of people, who had no 
fear of God, but only feared the emperor? 
The honest ‘Swedish; Danish, Hamburgh, 
and Liibeck sailors, and merchants, res 
turned or remained: thanks to a couple 
of Protestant ministers whom I kept‘on 
board of our ships. 
1730.—At length I enjoyed the pleas 
sure of having the first fair at Trieste; and. 
after some labor upon the fihances, to 
find money enough to raise 86,000 men, 
with whom the emperor resdlved to aug 
ment his army. He was right to old 
himself in readiness for all events: ’tis the 
way to preserve peace. But I thought 
I could perceive that certain intriguers 
for their own private interest, or cerfain 
zealous, but shallow persons, would nos 
be displeased to produce a rupture on 
the first opportunity. The French are 
elever in discovering what passes; and by 
these means are always in a better condi= 
tion than others. 
1732.—TVhe court of Versailles, for exe 
ample, was not duped by the j journey to 
Carlsbad, whither I accompanied the 
Emperor, who gavé out that he was going 
for the benefit. “ofthe waters, Tt is ob- 
vious that same interview was in’ con- 
templation, The Kivg of Prussia was 
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