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Europe, the China of the Christian world. The utmost vigilance is practiced by the government to seclude its subjects, as far as possible, from all intercourse with more free and enlightened nations. The government is in continual dread lest the kingdom should be invaded by those liberal opinions. which are circulating in other parts of Europe. The young men are prohibited, by an imperial decree, from leaving Austria to prosecute their studies in foreign universities. "Be careful," said Francis II. to the professors in the university at Labach, "not to teach too much. I do not want learned men in my kingdom; I want good subjects, who will do as I bid them." Some of the wealthy families, anxious to give their children an elevated education, and prohibited from sending them abroad, engaged private tutors from France and England. The government took the alarm, and forbade the employment of any but native teachers. The Bible, the great chart of human liberty, all despots fear and hate. In 1822 a decree was issued by the emperor prohibiting the distribution of the Bible in any part of the Austrian dominions.

The censorship of the press is rigorous in the extreme. No printer in Austria would dare to issue the sheet we now write, and no traveler would be permitted to take this book across the frontier. Twelve public censors are established at Vienna, to whom every book published within the empire, whether original or reprinted, must be referred. No newspaper or magazine is tolerated which does not advocate despotism. Only those items of foreign intelligence are admitted into those papers which the emperor is willing his subjects should know. The freedom of republican America is carefully excluded. The slavery which disgraces our land is ostentatiously exhibited in harrowing descriptions and appalling engravings, as a specimen of the degradation to which republican institutions doom the laboring class.

A few years ago, an English gentleman dined with Prince Metternich, the illustrious prime minister of Austria, in hi.

beautiful castle upon the Rhine. As they stood after dinner at one of the windows of the palace, looking out upon the peasants laboring in the vineyards, Metternich, in the following words, developed his theory of social order:

"Our policy is to extend all possible material happiness to the whole population; to administer the laws patriarchaly; to prevent their tranquility from being disturbed. Is it not. delightful to see those people looking so contented, so much in the possession of what makes them comfortable, so well fed, so well clad, so quiet, and so religiously observant of order? If they are injured in persons or property, they have immediate and unexpensive redress before our tribunals, and in that respect, neither I, nor any nobleman in the land, has the smallest advantage over a peasant."

But volcanic fires are heaving beneath the foundations of the Austrian empire, and dreadful will be the day when the eruption shall burst forth.

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his character, 85.

elected Emperor of Germany, 87.
victor at Gelheim, 37.
assassination of, 40.

ALBERT III. rules with Otho, 46.
acquisitions of, 47.

ALBERT IV., succession of, 51.

improvements projected by,

58.

ALBERT V. declared of age, 59.

accepted King of Hungary, 62.
death of, 65.

ALBERT (of Bavaria) declines the throne of
Hungary, 66.

ALBERT (Archduke) the candidate of the

Catholics, 229.

ALLIANCE of barons to crush Rhodolph of

Hapsburg, 21.

same dissolved, 22.

ALPHONSO (of Castile) candidate for crown
of Germany, 28.

ALPHONSO (King of Naples), abdication of, 84.
AMURATH, Conquests of, 64.

ANABAPTISTS, rise of the sect of, 115.

ANHALT (Prince of), dispatched with a list of
grievances to the emperor, 211.

ANHALT (Prince of) (continued), address
to the emperor, 212.

ban of the empire declared against,

265.

ANN (Princess of Hungary and Bohemia),
marriage of to Ferdinand I., 145.
ANNA (of Russia), desire of to secure a har-
bor for Russia, 400.
ANECDOTES of Rhodolph, 83.
of Charles V., 144.
APOLOGY of Maximilian, 96.
ASCHHAUSEN, confederacy at, 194.
AUGSBURG, diet of, 24.

bold speech of the diet at, 102.
triumphal reception of Maurice
at, 133.

Confession of, 118.

AUGUSTUS II. loses and regains his empire,
882.

death of, 382.

AULIC COUNCIL, establishment of the, 102.
AUSTRIA, & portion of given as dowry to
Hedwige, 25.

nucleus of the empire of, 27.
invasion of by John of Bohemia,
49.

wonderful growth of, 52.

division of, 72.

accession of Ladislaus over, 81.

the house of invested with new
dignity, 101.

becomes a part of Spain, 108.
the empire of apparently on the
eve of dissolution, 286.

the leading power in Europe, 814.
dispute as to the succession to the
crown of, 352.

treaty between Spain and, 878.
Maria Theresa ascends the throne
of, 415.

deplorable state of at that time,
415.

defeat of by Frederic, 420.

the proposed division of, 422.
prosperity of, 444.

important territory wrested from,

453.

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BOHEMIA

(continued), son of Ferdinand
crowned king of, 271.
change of prosperity of during
reign of Ferdinand II., 272.
rise of the Protestants in, 286.
the Elector of Bavaria crowned
king of, 484.

the Prussians driven from, 450.
(King of), chosen Emperor of
Germany, 431.

BRANDENBURG, reply of the Marquis of to
Charles V., 118.

BRITISH MINISTER, letter of the in regard

to Maria Theresa, 295.
letter of the in regard

to the affairs in Hun-
gary, 416.

BRUNAU, the Protestant church of, 235.
BRUNSWICK, marriage of Charles VI. to
Elizabeth Christina of, 164.

BRUSSELS, diet at, 189.

BUDA taken by the Turks, 147.
BULL (see Pope).

BURGHERS prevented from attending Prot-
estant worship, 188.

BURGUNDY (Duke of), ambition of the, 77.
BURGUNDY (Mary of), marriage of by proxy,

79.
death of, 79.

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113.

determination of to suppress
religious agitation, 115.
interview of with the pope at
Bologna, 117.

call of for the diet at Augsburg,
117.

intolerance of, 119.

appeal of to the Protestants for
aid, 122.

in violation of his pledge, turns
against the Protestants, 122.
secret treaty of with the King
of France, 123.

treaty of with the Turks, 123.
forces secured by against the
Protestants, 124.

alarm of at the preparations of
the Protestants, 125.
preparations of to enforce the
Council of Trent, 125.
march of to Ingolstadt, 126.
flight of to Landshut, 126.
triumph of over the Protest-
ants, 126.

conquers the Elector of Sax-
ony, 128.

revenge of towards the Elector
of Saxony, 128.
march to Wittemberg, 128.
visit to the grave of Luther,

129.

attempts of to settle the relig-
ious differences, 129.

CHARLES V. (of Spain) (continued) con-
founded at the success of
the Protestants, 133.
flight of from Maurice, 133.
unconquerable will of, 135.
urged to yield, 136.
fortune deserting, 187.
extraordinary despondency of
133.

abdication of in favor of Philip,
his son, 139.

enters the convent of St. Jus-
tus, 141.

convent life of, 141.

death of, 143.

anecdotes of, 144.

attempt of to abdicate the
elective crown of Germany
to Ferdinand, 160.

CHARLES VI. (see also Charles III. for pre-

vious information), limita-
tions imposed on the power
of, 356.

desertion of by his allies, 357.
addition of Wallachia and
Servia to the dominion of,
864.

marriage of, 364.

his alteration of the compact
established by Leopold, 364.
power of, 365.

involved in duplicity, 377.
insult to, 850.

ambition of to secure the

throne of Spain for his
daughters, 382.

the loss of Lombardy felt by,
357.

attempt of to force assistance
froni France, 390.

his first acknowledgment of
the people, in his letter to
.Count Kinsky, 891.
interference ofin Poland, 393.
sends Strickland to London
to overthrow the cabinet,
891.

troubles of in Italy, 394.
distraction of, 396.

proposal of for a settlement

with France, 397.
humbled by loss of empire,
893.

a scrupulous Romanist, 400.
removal of all the Protestants

from the army, 404.

fears of for the safety of Ma-
ria Theresa, 406.

anguish of at the surrender

of Belgrade, 411.

letter of to the Queen of Rus-
sia, 412.

death of, 414.

CHARLES VII., death of, 451.
CHARLES VIII.

informed of the league
against him, 88.
death of, 89.

attempt of to establish the in- CHARLES XII. joins the Austrian party, 333.

quisition in Burgundy, 129.
power of over the pope, 180.
calls a diet at Augsburg, 130.
failure of to accomplish the
election of Philip, 131.

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