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;nee highly proficient in mathrmatieil meletice.

" At tie imitle of Leipsic he commended a Westphalian
battery, was wonnded, and taken prisoner. Previous ex-
hibitions of bravery had procured for his name a place ie
the roll of the Legion of Honour. ''porn the slismolution of
the Westphalia& kingdom, and the return of the Efeeror of
Heme-Cassel, Radowits entered the service of the latter,
and made with the Hessian artillery the campaign against
France. Hir. talents quickly commanded the attention of
his superiors, and in !site he was appointed the first teacher
of mathematics and the military sciences to the School for
Cadets at Cassel. Here he remained for some years, until
some Cont intrigues resulted in his honourable dismissal,
when he repaired to Berlin, entered the service of Prussia,
and, having the recommendat* of the King's( sister,
speedily obtained advancement. He became niathenne
ucal tutor to Prince Albrecht of Prussia, and was 'nude a
captain on the stafr. He published two works on geome-
try and one on ricochet during Oil ten first years of his
new career. lie was elected member of the highest
mili-
tary board, • professor of the military academy, nod
an examiner of artillery students. In lel4 lie Is.-
came major, and, in Is:10, chief of the artillery general's
staff. While thus &Avowing through the grads% of mili-
tary hierarchy, he was forming a relation of is yet more hie
portant kind. A religion's mystic and entlinslast, his die•
position agreed exactly with that of the t 'rown Prnice, now
the King of Prussia; and this geniality of temper and
habit proved of far greater power than the diversity of the
dogmas which, as Protestant and Catholic, the otie and the
other held. In !KIM Itadowitz married the Countess Maria
VOSS, daughter of the ambassador. lle was now, despite
of his origin, a recognised member of the Court, and, with-
out any of the cares or responsibilities or other, ghaord an
its counsel's. In the year Iml9 he published two books
remarkable for the contrast of their subjects. The first
of these was ' I thy of the Saints,' containing
his-
tork notices of all t w representations of the saints which
have come down to posterity in pictures, coins, and other
memorials ; with remarks on the meaning of the emblems,
attitudes, and other characteristic's with which they have
been invested. The ether work was called "the Theatre

of War in Turkey,' being an application of simtegetical
principles to the topographical features of the country be-
tween the Danube and the Ilalkon. In 114341 Itatlowitz
was neural Military Plenipotentiary of Prussia at the tier-
manic Diet. This sppoinfment, a kind of loonotindole ha-
nioiliment, he owed to the hodut.nee of his oppements at
Court and iu the Ministry.
In 1840 the prospect of war with Foresee upon the ow.
eenion of M. Tilers led to the recoil of Itaolowitz to Ileo
whence he was shortly after rent with tictiend you der lino-
hen to Vienna, to stir up the • ;overtime'', of Austria to the.
defence of Liermany. The war never came, bat Itadowitz
forrouilit shout a series of reforma, which greatly contri.
but to the efficiency of the federal army, and also did
aeon than Any other man towards noting the erection
of the existing fortresses of film and hoisted', and the ex-
tension and greater atresigthening of Mayen's, and Luxem-
burg. In 1817 the present King called Ifoultowite. franc
Ereskfort, and commisosionetl him to anew up a memorial
upon the reconstitution of the Coofederao• This was
40160, and the memorial handed to the King, Nov. In of
the same year. The next day Itoulowits went to Vienna,
to make good his views will' Prince Aletternielo. A se-
wind journey was undertaken to Vienna on tin following
March, when the revolution broke out. The nom 00000 11114111111
pribinlited a taalleaCter tergailiNat. of the federal artily, a
supreme judicial court for all tiermany, one criminal law,
one commercial and hankniptcy code., one rotenone union,
one railway and post'ielhee system, free trade in all real'
shts, abolition of river tolls and of the censors', and,
finally, theTublication of the proceediugs of the Mind.
In April, IRIN, Iladowits retired from the l`russian Novice
in consequence of the motto-I'l'k and the changed Male of
atrairs. In the elect' to the Nat' I Assembly, which
was to meet at Frankfort, he was Memos! for Anislwrg, in
Westphalia. He took his Scut in the Assembly, looping
that the public spirit of t;enotany would put an cud to the
revolution by accepting the Hew power it Ineel given to the
representatives of the station as the basis of those tan-
gieforms which hail, up to that t' been attempted
in rain. He spoke mod voted with the extreme right, dc-
siring to see the thirtynine sovereigntits; formed into one
Mate, of which Prussia moat be the betel. The melon•
choly end of the Assembly, igen' which t;ertiontly had built
so many hopes, is, however, only too well known. To the
last, Radowits was faitiofid to the principles which had
always guided him, and sought the misty of tiermany
by a voluntary arrangement Iwtwessi the tioweisoments
and peoples. When his 1101,4”4 in the Assembly had
been frustrated, lie returned to Berlin by desire of the.
King, and became the anther of the silicone cellist the
Union. In oreordatice with this, a kind of federal body
was formed of shout eighteen stoles, the prince's of whirl'
met in a while the people sere represented in a
parlistais:tnealiT'gras convoked at Elliot. A eolossioloo•
was transail, and the Millers we're summoned tee Merlin tee
adopt it. Delays and licsitatime took place—cud when, aim
was to he exported, Austria opposed with griming strength
the establishment of a league' log:Most her, the bovereigois
of the Union states font I Hunt
an* is. .. their conduct hall lost thew
the confidence of the. people. As the crisis approached.
it was fel.. that Itaslowita was to tee retitle forward awl
assume th responsibility of Ida own measures. lie sic.
cordingly. ente'reel the l'abinet hl 18545. The. Prussian
army was mobilised, and the Loondwehr called out: troops
occupied the Etanwn-strasse through Hesse l'oossel, rn
which Austria had intervened. Shots were actually ex•
changed between Austria and l'rnssie,when the King glove
way, and sacrificed, with expressions doubtless of sincere
regret, his minister and Mosel. Since then Von Ihsdowitz
has lived in comparative retire went. His age at the time
at his death was only Mt."