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“Three Dolls, per annf\
Volume V.]
VIEW of AUSTRIA .
Concluded .
would feel the impor
tant of such an opening more than
any other portion of the Austrian
dominions: ahd mod affiiredly this
}, exteiifive and beautiful country de
serves the mod favorable regards
of its government. How various,
bow rich, how abundant are the
produ&ions of this territory. Light
are the toils of its hufbandnian. So
rich a foil, affifited by the genial in
fluence of a mild and humid at
mifphere, yields an almost sponta
neous vegitation. Here vast herds
of oxen with horns of enormous
iize range majedically over plains
bounded only by the horifon : there
theufands of horses bound upon
the distant hills, and fnuff the in
vigorating breeze. Through lux
urious fields of corn and maize are
interspersed orchards of figs, of al.
mandsfi of plumbs and of cheCnuts.
The vine of Tokay imbibes its lus
cious juice from a foil of decompo
ied bafaltes; previous to their be
ing expressed, the grapes are.culled
and dried in the fun. The red
wine of Smyrna resembles that of
Montepulciano ; and for the moll
part, the vineyards of Sdavonia.
Croatia appear not unworthy of
their Greek and Italian extra&ion.
It is true that fome parts of Hunga
ry presents a rougher afpeef—
mountains, where rocky summits
rise in terrific grandeur'above the
dark and interminable ferefts, pro
ducing nothing but here and there
a/canty blade of oats: but much
treasure is concealed within their
bowels—gold pure and fine, cop
per in the greates, abundance and
of the bell quality, the only true o
pal, and immense quantities of ftri
amoniac.
There is not a firtgle province
tinder the dominion of Austria,
that is destitute of natural riches.
Even the cold and ragged Galiicia
may boast of-her noble herd, her
luxuriant fields of wheat and rye,
but particularly of her fait mines,
fituateci near Borhnia and Wielitz-*
ka; they are too weli known to re
goire any thing but a bare mention
she opening of several mines of
iton, and felling of wood, as well
is the breeding of steep, may here
after prove sources of wealth to this
province. But the principal natu
outlets of this country are un
der foreign government. Hnngay
r y h fmiiiarly circitmflanoed with
to the Danube, as is Bohe
mia to the Elbe. So that after all
acquiutions and extend on of
territory, Auflria is (till cramped
fettered in every direction, he
caufe she has no invulnerable fide.
Bet any, one take a view cf the
ftditary frontiers of the Au(lrian
and he will be made fenfi
y of the inefftcacy of her fydem
? a Sg r 'Andizement. Galiicia, with-.
m prefeiK limits, has not one
barrier. If the Austrian
fhoutd be called out to de-
this country, every thing muff
; c °nimitted to their courage, and
n cafe a defeat, their only Me
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retreat would be the Carpathean
mountains, Bohemia is recure a ”
present from a sudden invasion.
Prague is covered by the fortreffes
of Lgraj of Thereflenftat, of Pleflv
and of Olmutz. The Tyrol is a
nother rampart for Austria.— That
and Bohemia form two bastions,
which the nature of things require
te be connected by the famous line
of the Inn, of which Austria has
not yet obtained the cession. These
fortifications are already ere&ed in
the territory formerly belonging to
Venice; but considering the parti
tion of Dalmatia, and drawing a
line from the mouth of the Cattaro
towards Orlova and Belgrade, we
may easily conceive how infinitely
important it muff be to Austria to
have her views aceompliihed.
It is supposed that Austria main*
tains in time of peace an army of
380,000 fighting men ; of which
240,000 are regular infantry, 50-
000 are cavalry, 12,000 artillerv,
and 70,000 militia flationsd alomr
tne frontier with other irregular
troops. The Hungarian and Polish
cavalry are the fined in the world.
T heTyrolefe are formidable marks
men, and the Austrians after a fe
veji years terrible apprenticeflrip to
tne arts of war* are ranked among
dhe fineft fokliers of Europe.,. The
diiafters of their armies are to be
attributed entirely to the baleful in
fluence of the Aulic military coun
cil, which the wisdom of the arch
duke Charles has of late confined
within a narrow compass, but not
entirely destroyed. Without per
miflion from Vienna, their generals
could not lirike a blow. The want
of information among the ftibait
erns has been a fubjeef of public
reprehension with the great man a
bove named- —a prince who has ob
tained the glorious title of the re
storer of the military difeiputfe of
his country.
The Auftrl&n marine is yet to
be created* M. de Lichtenstein afi
ferts that in 1802 there were 2400
national veflels in the ports of Au
stria, but he mini have enumerat
ed every little filhiflg boat. In the
fame manner the number of veflels
arriving at Triefle in one year, has
been swelled to 6000 or loop'. 1
believe there are about 500 veflels
above 10 tons, the property of Au
strian fubje&s. ’ The eftablifliment
of a marine, withottf a coast many
times more extended, would oe a
very difficult undertaking for Au
stria as well as Prufiia, and after all
of very doubtful utility. #
The financial fyftein of Atsftna
has undergone and is every dayun
dercroing so many changes, that it
would be impoftible to fay any thing
of it with precision. Ins hid that
the revenues of the fiate, which
have been very much encreafed
for the last years, amount to
193 ,000,000 florins of Vienna,
Dree of the eJSpencesof collecting^
\ fom equivalent to 507,000,000
of francs, reckoning the_ florin at
its current value in Austria. Bj.
the course of exchange with other
countries being very unfavorable to ■
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, isoj.
fon* would hardly rc
prefelft 400,000,000. However
the revenues of this empire are’
double those of Prufiia, a little less
than those of France in 1789, ac
cording to the ftateinent of Mr.
jSeckar,
MALTHEBRUN.
miscellaneous.
From the Port F.j.io.
the lat preacher.
“ The lienrt of the foolifli is like a
ca&t wheel.”
IF this be the fa&, and the wife
mart accurate in his fimiiitude
what myriads of wheels roll in this
our rofitwg I
As it is the privilege of preach
ers to paraphrase their text, and
extort meanings that will ftkle ea
sily into the tnuti of their own sen
timents ; I (hall choole to under-
Itand the word foolish, as not only
intended to indicate weak, but gid
dy and unstable men. This defi
nition being granted, raid it is not
so for fetched, as -many, which my
fellow laborers, John Have! md
Mathew Henry have framed, what
greater affinity can be found be
tween two things, apparently un--
like, than a hypochondriac writer
and a cart Wheel r Such a fpgtfic
author as the Lay Preacher, for in-,
fiance, restless,! and whose labors
arc in regular rotation, moves thro*
the ruts of life, creeking and com
plaining of obftru&ions in the way,
and when the dayly drudgery is
done, is left, by the inattention of
mankind, without a fhdter, or
funk into a slough.
Avery ancient moralifl, who
publfhed his wisdom in tbejreign
of Queen Elizabeth, introduces,
somewhere in his works, an aged
fire complaining of the dandeffine
nuptials of his daughter. As the
height of his misfortune, the difi
appointed parent laments that his
darling should espouse a fickle- fo
reigner, and as it is exp relied in
the quaint fiile of that age, “ Eye
her fortunes to an extravagant and
a wheeling stranger. ,, A roman*
tic adventurer, continually drift
ing his situation, exposed to the
temptations and vices of various
regions, and like the dove of No
ah, perpeuallv seeking and never
finding a fetilement, mull he grofly
deficien in that uniformk) of cha
mber neccffiiry to the happiness
of marriage. Be on yonr guard,
therefore, ye parents* when your
daughters are solicited to wedlock
by those who are commonly called
unsteady men, left haply you-find
them wheeling. The heart of a
biriband, that is like a cart wheel,
will, in fome of its unaccountable
and wild rotations, be turned away
from its duty or affections to the
wife.
Advice to women must be
posed moft disinterested in the Lay
Preacher. The reasons are obvi
ous ; he has, in a former ferraon,
hinted that he Was full of years,
and moreover, -from the gravity
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and restraint of his piofefiion, can.
not approach even the female
cheek, but with the salute of a
hunt, or the kiss of charity. He,
therefore, entreats the daughters
Os the land not to confound pru
dery with virtue, not to follow,
too ftritfc ohfervance, the
changes of fafhion, nor be too am.
bitious of the artifice of coquetry,
ior all these things affimulate a vvow
man to a wheel, whirling at a pro*
mgious rate.
There is more hope of a fool,
tnan of that various creature, com*
monly crdled an universal genius,
Lager for novelty and a firaiigar to
perlcxcrance, lie goes on from one
projeef to another, from art to ait,
*iom icience to Icience, lound and
round like a cart wheel. In the?
younger part of my life I knew a
man of the above difeription ; I
think lus name was Schemer. If
he happened to hear a veteran col
onel talk of thefeige of Louifbtrrg,
he would buy military books and
dream of drums arid trumpets.
In the mid If of these warlike pre
parations he received a fetter from
his brother, a lawyer* informing
“ that he had gained Iris great land
cauie, at the last Superior court. 1 *
Schemer fold his cartouch box and
read hw for two days, jaded with
the obfeurity of his study, his rel
iefs mind metliing new
and he listened with delight to the
(ale of an East-India who
painted the profits of fa&orffiip/
and brilliancy of tc Barbaric pearl
and g.ofd. ,> in ffiort to recount ail
his labors, would lira even the lonii
wmded Jeremy fay for. He spent
his life in careless changes; ire had
at difterent times, horses saddled
for journeys to every pa?t of the
continent, and th* departure
ny an outward \xflel, trnsf
deJaeyd by this projlffing palllnger.
I lived with him a month’ and wit*
neffed the variety es kH* pursuits.
He might be found, in the morn
ing, busy to invent feme fhoH cut
to the temple of fdencc, at noon he
would be examining the wheels of
a watch, and at night making a
mouse trap. JEli liie was the. per
petual motion* and his palpitating
heart, and whirligig head were in
very deed, like a cart wheel*
GENERAL EATON,
Lately appointed commander art
chief of the forces of the exiled
Tripoiine monarch, Ila met ILffiaw,
is a Green Mountain ley* lie was
appointed a captain h the wetfom
the United States* about
the year l?9t, Stid recrui ted a,
company at Bennington. In our
army he role no higher than the
rmk of captain. During the tarrer
part of the administration of Presid
ent Wa firing ton, fra was appointed
consul 3$ %\im> in which import
ant ftatibn he supported the inter
efts of his country with zeal and
ability. When commodore Mor
ris was at Malta, he was applied,
to by a Malrefe blacksmith by the
name of Buflitil, styling l&ifcli
confiri and agent for the exile#
[Ntmbes. 242.