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London, England, 1805-10-26 00:00:00

AGRRARDISEMANT OP AUSTRIA.

coeiNteosit. 001 TNR POSSOWOMS OF AUSTRIA lat
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Brisgaw and Frickthal being gin's, by the Treaty
4 of Luneville, the first to the Duke of Modena, and
the other to Switzerland. and being than detached
. hem the Austrian Monarchy, the Princes and States
; Vote Empire of the South of Germany, at first, hoped
that the loss of these countries, that had formed the
, . priscipd part of the Austrian possessions in Suabia,
wadi pin an end to the preponderating interest which
the Court of Vienna had exercised in the circle of
Suabia, and free them from the dependence in which
this Conn had held them, and from which she bad
derived so great as advantage, in all the wars into
which she had drawn the German Empire; but it wu
not long until they perceived, that Austria, far (torn
12 ' negleeing her former possessions. tried all the re-
sources of subtle policy, the more to concentrate and
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i .. preserve, by means of new acquisitions, her ancient
weight and influence in Suabia.
Frickthal is the only real loss which the Coen of
Vienna has had in Suabia. flrisgaw and Ortenau,
having become the property of the Archduke Fer.
siinand, uncle of the Emperor, residing at Vienna,
can only be considered as a province of Austria.
These countries may, sherefeee, be reckoned among
the Austrian possessions.
It was in pursuing her system of aggrandisement
with perseverance and good fortune, that the House
of Austria has arrived at the rank which she at pre-
, sent holds among the Continental Powers. She has
not negleaed any means, any opportunity, of ang-
mentie.g her dominiJns ; and, after the moat unfortu-
pate wars. she has Always procured a!!vantages, were
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they only in concentrating her possessions. It was
thus, after the Treaty of Luneville, and the settling
of the indemnities, she took advantage of her ancient
preter,sions and superanouated right, to buabia, to
I appropriate to herself the pot esoicn of all the abbeys
and se• ularised cameras, sereas, which re within its ter-
'km. To her an..ien: possess:a:is in .iitabia, which
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we may estimate at an extent of 9.5n,04u squares,
and a population of t, ',ow) soots, the Court of
Vienna has lately triited the city of Ludau, obtained
• r from the Court of Hieigerrtheim, the Island Menau,
an the Lake of .Constance, the ei-ti,oard abbey of
Wenig oten, arnt many other ;eisniories.
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The Ait.trian Nrsvi..ce in Suahia, such as it actu-
ally 55....5, as governed by a Regency. which sits at

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Guntaboarg, an the Danube. The different terri-
tories which compose the province are 'dispersed
in the South of Suabia, and en the left beak
of the Danube. The seigniories of Vorallterg.
Itothenfels. Raver.sberg, Montfort, the prefert
cure of Suabia, and the city of Lindau, are situ-
ated to the north and east of the Lake of Con-
stance, and form a contiguous territory ; but the city
of Constance, and the earldom of Nellembourg,
which are to the west of this Lake, are entirely iso-
lated. The earldom of Hohenberg. situated near
the Black Forest, is divided by the country of Wit-
temberg, and the posseasioas of the Princes of I la-
henzollern. The &ties of Ehingen. Mengen, Ried-
lingen, and Sulgan, situated on the Danube, are
equally envirobed by foreign territories.
All these possessions are of great political import-
ance to Austria. In a military point of view, they
may be considered the advanced posts of the Aus-
trian Monarchy. calculated to defend, on the one
side, the passage of the Defiles of the Alps, of Sua-
ble, and of the Black Forest ; and, on the other, that
of the Rhine. They furnish to the Eniperot many
soldiers, and facilitate recruiting in Suabia. _They
guard, and occupy, willingly, all the frontiers of
Germany towards Switzerland; they make him
master of the navigation of the Lake of Constance,
of the principal roads which cross the south of Suabia,
and, .tbove all, wf those which pass by Lindau. and
which are of the greatest importance to commerce;
they serve as s granary of previsions for the Tyrol ;
in short, they extend his influence over the south of
the Empire, by putting him in contact, and in rela-
tion. by vicinity, with the most of the states of that
part of Germany, of which a great number are
even his vassals, or are. in ether respeas, in his
dependence.— ( .4 ri!if