The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-26 00:00:00

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Germany. There is some plausibility in this conjecture,
though we must acknowledge we impute more pageantry
and ostentation to this visit, than attribute it to political
motives. The Grand Duke of WURTZBURG is to receive a
compensation for his oh%equioustiess to the new Dynasty
of the BUONAPARTES, and his abandonment of his own
family—the Princes of the House of Lorraine. He is,. in
all probability, the Prince alluded to, whose fidelity is to
be re larded 'with Hanover. He will receive a further
remuneration in the hand of the rich heiress of Saxony,
as he, some years age, made overtures to that effect.
The King of SAxoNv is a good, well-meaning, but limited
man, and completely conducted by a favourite called
Count MARCOLINII an Italian adventurer, who has acquit-.
ed an immense fortune in his service. In consequence of
popular detestation, which is the lot of every favourite,
this MAncomNi thought fit, some years ago, to secure the

greatu part of his property by purchases in the Kingdom
of Italy, of which he is a native; and since that time, may
• be considered as a ready and devoted instrument of BUONA•
PARTE.' He probably takes care to conceal from his roas-
ter, who is a very religious and very moral man, the darker
Ithades in the character of his new patron; and to represent

the accounts of his atrocities as the inventions of malevo-
lence and enmity. In this he can easily succeed, because
the habits of the Elector, his devotional exerc►ses, his pas-
sion for botany, and the Spanish etiquette introduced at
the Court of Presden, besides his ardent attachment to this
intriguer, seclude him from every intercourse with his sub-
jects. -He is. therefore, completely the dupe of the intrigues
of his servant, and of the professions of BUQNAPARTE,
whom, were his mind unshackled, he would abhorr as an un-
principled, flag-itious, and hypocritical tyrant. As for the
new King of WURTEMBERG, he is one of the worst men and
the worst regents in Europe, and has intrusively shewn
himself the submissive, mean, and crouching vassal of the
tyrant. A slave is always a tyrant towards his family
and dependants ; and h 3 is generally represented as a ty-
rannic father, husband, and prince. His attachment to
BUONAPARTE proceeds from the meanest motives, fear and
interest ; asid he woold be the first to desert, if his present

fortune abandoned his patron. The King of BAVARIA pos-
sesses all the faults, virtues, avid extravagance of an in-
temperate reformer. His late political conduct has been
influence:l by an old family hate and personal grudge to the
House of Austria. This sentiment, together with an ar-
dent desire to reform a ni!mber of abuses, civil and ecoles-

elailical, to which pi jeet lif3apprehended some opposition
from the Austrian government, encouraging the discon-
tents mid bigotry of his subjects, induccd him to ►hrow him-
self into the arms of BUONAPARTE. Whether he will

always continue, vhen his ambition and kared are grafi-
fed, the same zealous partisan of France, he has been for
some time, is extremely doubtful. He possesses a num-
ber of ,014nable qualities; but has been led into po-
litical 4xceSses and errors by the opposition be for-
merly encountered from the house of Austria, and
from a desire to correct the profligate bigotry of his Ca-
tholic subjects. It would not be hazardiug too much to
buve that he may still contribute to re-establish a system