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SUBS7'ANCE ()P TIIE STATEAIttir
OF ?Mr.
TIROL DLPUTIES.

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Xhe (loamy of Tyrol simi the seven principali-
;ie. of Voalberg have, for n series of centuries,
emtituted an hereditary portion of the Imperial
ilmse of Austria. The people inhabiting these
countries ihriiiimuishial themselves in every war by
such undaunted valour, that the Emperors sum**.
.sively conferred upon them very considerable pri-
vileges. During the seventeenth anal the last cen-
turies, when the Swedes. Frerch, Had Bainiriana,
made such rapid advances in the German Empire,
tnese provinces always repulsed the enemy with
consudi•ralsle loss. In the year 1704, particularly-,
when the Savari•itt army had penetrated into the
ml, it was so ill ra•eived, thst primer!' a few re-
mained to attend their Elector back. This attach-
ment of the Tyrolean and Voralliergers to their
Emperors was always firm ; for they governs:debris
eith siglar and paiercial mildness. faithfully pm-
their privileges. Thus, though ant blessed
tither with a delicioue climate, or a fertile mil;
these pastoral isistioip;, not aware of their poverty.
IV) a very contemnd amid hopil hie in tlit:ir Cot-
tinges, omit the war of .theleeneis
tirrike,oitt. The edleys were inhabited by thou. more poignant, these indigent _
muds of persons, who, before that piiiod, bad themselves involved in the immense debt of twenty
sever seen a soldier; bat thenceforward whole ar- millions of florins.
mks traversed their country, smog i„„e„,ting to " The Emperor of Austria did what he could to
the inteiior of Germany, and other* going to Italy. alleviate this heavy misfortune ; he stipulated, tbai
The poor iiihishitaiite furoished them gratuitously the privileges of the Tyrolese and Vornlhergers
with provisions anal till sorts of necessaries, and should remain entire. But is there tiny owe so ere.
thereby put themselves to great inconvenience. &dims, or so unreformed of the grand events of the
Still, they not only refrained from murmurs, but days as to suppose, that Bonaparte could be bound
evinced their loyalty by the erection of a corps of by any engagement*? Fatt:iful only to his usual
..,:hevy, he Ito wooer had the invincible Tyrolese
Tyrol and Voralberg chasseurin .. the Tyrol
Fieldiners"--all of theM volunteWts and native, and yoralbergers in his grasp, than he imposed
who, in addition to their par, were alloseil by upon iVem contsibatiorte of every kind, without re-
their country nine crentzers' each man daily. It is wonting a single creutzer; and, having taken this
to be observed, that Au' innie involution in tlio..e leirlisriims revenge, he surrendered them to his re.
urouutu w, eently creareil king of Envarce.
is, Iron, its eighth trained to the
use of the gull by bunting as well us living at " This Princa, in his tunic, made a :mint of
gels. Such superior marksineu,, ancient poverishing and oppressing his new
Not satisfied with raiatig heavy contributions, bepractice makes of them, must, it may easily- lie
supposed, prere a greet addition to 'any anny, overthrew their uncle tit constitution, which they
h
fret, they have ever uncommonly signalised them-
ad preserved for a series of ages ; abolished the
'dyes in all Austrian wars. Yet they emi!,l not representative States, in order to obstruct the way .
to all popular remonstrances: and seized the pro-
stem the current of disaster which overwhelmed
the arms of their government, and in 1794 the vinrial, papillary, and credit-funds. lie moreover
tummy approached their frontiers. confiscated all ecclesiastical property. abolished the
"The Emperor How sinuinuned his brave and be-
Prelacies and convents, and sold all public builds
loved Tyrol or Vorallierg subjects, reminelii•-; them lags, to replenish his empty coffers. What proved
of their ancient fame for sharieotliciotiog. But they more painful to the inhabitants, than all these op.
had anti :ipated the ominous by orgasieing. of pre mien., was; the disposal of the ancient and ors.
their own accord, a kog-en-ntasse. They hastened to 13Mal castle of the e'lnita of the Tyr'''.
the defenceof the frmitier,, acid thus preserved their " Every successive. month was marked with a list
countries free from invasion. • of new exactions and taxes, that were levied with
"In 1798, the enemy again attempted to make the utmost rigour. Coin had become niicouis
inroads from Italy, Switzerland, the Orisons unit monly scarce ; and the Bavarian Government ens
Swibie. Ile only succeeded on the side of the Gri- hanced the embarrassment, arising from this eh-
sous, where the passes were but weakly guarded. as munstanee, by depreciating the Austrian hooks;
bills. which were still in circulation, to one.half of
the main forces had been dispatched towards Swa-
bia and Italy. where the enemy, likewise, was their nominal value. Tbis operation caused, to the
strongest. Still the invaders kept only four days countries in question, a fresh loss, amounting to at
possession of the Pfintschgau, where they were vi- least twenty millions of florins.
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goiously driven back upon the Gri.on and the En. "To crown all these oppressive enures,
gisdine, though, in their retreat, they pillaged sad Tana had it in contemplation to change, the tery
burnt the towns of Mats and Gluten,. name of the provinces of Tyrol and Vcrallserg. by
War having vain broke out in 179.9, their Iron- milling them after the )) i)) ripe! rivers, and iecor.
tiers were also menaced. Tne iiihalaitsnts larvae. porating them with her own dominions.
iltut•dy repaired thither to guard them ; acid in 11100. " These excessive hersithips lamed three years.—
wiwn Marshal llasseoshod trailed the Rhine Petitions and complaints were not only rejected,
near relilkirk, in We Yoralberg. with a vary imps. „bin, by an express law, absolutely poohibited.
Icier and victorious Time, he was there as well as
•" When, therefore, in the beginning of the eur-
rent year, it appeared certain that a new contest
vicar the almost impregnable mountain-fortress td'
St. Limiensteitn, ceapletek defeated, as to between Austria end Frame aAs investabb., the ill*
ot.
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T•• These efforts, however, were unable to court.
terpoise the disastrous outmodes of than, by oev'
nets! Mack, and the calamitous issue of the en-
gagement of Austetiitz ; in cOnsequence of which, •
Beoaparte, in the peace of Presbneg, made the
cession of the Tyrol and Voralberg an express con• •
ditioo.
It is not in the power of language to describe •
the feelings of the holiest Tyvoleaks and Vont. '
herrn at the receipt of this melancholy intelli.;
geom. Ever since 1794, when the revolutionary
war began, their brilliant •ictories had not bees •
sullied by any defeat. They were an heroic people,
in the literal sense of the word.--Yet the reward of •
their loyalty was a fsie which usually falls to the
lot of the dastardly. 'lO render their calamity thl'

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