The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-13 00:00:00

C0.4-ei,,-TEMPOII.-1111' PRESS,

DEATII Or girt EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.—The death
of the .Eruperor Francis is an event which has, fur the.
last feet years, been looked upon by his family and
attendants as not far distant. His health was for a long
time in a declining state. The stomach appears to have
been the principal seat of disorder., and so. greatly had its
poWiers Of digestion been impah'ed, that he was cOMPeiltd
to have recourse to a diet composed of eggs,' bread, and
milk, daring the last five years of his life. His Majesty
was personally mush revered by all his German subjects,
especially those 'among whom'fie gassed the greater por.
tiori of .his time. The inhabitintg of Vienna, and of the
neighbouring watering:place, called Baden, had long
been in the habit of meeting him in public, when he often
appeared quite unattended, and always'in,an attire which
was remarkable for 'its peculiar homeliness. Many are
the times that he has been seen walking alone through
the Streets of Vienna, or with 'the Empress or one of his
daughters under his arm, in the delightful promenades of
Baden, always wearing a plain pepper-and-salt coloured
coat with drab pantaloons and longllessian book; which
brought up the lower part of the former about the knees,
anclgave to his dress a toUrnure which was certainly
none of. the smartest. His Mijesty always bowed with
much familiar good humour to all who made him a salute,
and never failed stopping- those with whoni he was
acqUainted to have a chat with them in the 'street. • He
mixaid, in fact, with his people on the same familiar forits
ing_which G:..•orge•lll., through his long reign, adopted
at Windsor. His despotism was certainly most mild, and
his policy most paternal,.wherever his authority was sub-
mitiSively acknowledged, - and ne symptoms existed of
any; disposition to defy it or_ set it aside. The Emperor
Francis was the sole and real dirntor of the policy of his
•cabinet, however great the celebrity acquired by his
minister M,ttteroich,• through the belief, especially in
foreir,on parts, that tie was the soul of the imperial councils.
Prince MetterniCh's views* and principles had long proved
in unison and harmony with those of Francis, and hence
the- extensive confidence which had been,placed in him,
and the length of time that he was admitted to share
poWer with his imperial master.
Very little has hithertO Keen-known of the hereditary
lately crowned as hind of Hungary, who is now
to ascend the. imperial' throne. We said yesterday that
he is in his 42,1 yea. His life has been as much spent
in retirement and seclusion as that Of his father in unre-
sert'ed intercoUrse with all the world. Some describe
hite. as a man of very mild and plain manners, of a
humane disposition, of the. most frugal. and economical
habits, and withal as -a steady friend: to all kinis. of intel-
lectual and political improvement. Others represent him
as being narroW-minded; passionate, arbitrary, and ava-
rickon mediums. There is no medium these-two current
descriptions of his character; but all that can be said
with certainty is, that he has hitherto been very little
known. It is only after a year or two of his reign that a
priivr,estimale can be formed of his worth as a man, and
of his qualificationsas a ruler. That he had been on bad
terms for many years with Prince Metternich is a fact of
very general notoriety, and respecting which no uncer-
tainty whatever exists.' Great doubts are therefore
entertained in many quartees as to Prince Metternich's
services being continued under the new reign. On this
point we are loth to (ler an opinion. Cases have not
unfrequently occurred, even during our own tithes, when
a Continuation of favour has been seen where iliiagrace
was looked for as a matter of course. The services of a
minister whO has' for so many years held the reins and
been the chief instrument in directing the affairs of so
extensive and complicated an empire as that of Austria,
mast appear too valuable to the new Sovereign to be
sacrificed to past considerations of Private pique. There
are letters from Vienna, written in anticipation of the
En3peror's dissolution, which express a conviction that
the .Emperor will maintain the statu quo :of Austrian
policy, and that everything had been already settled, so
that Prince Metternich should remain as Prime Minister.
'Tlie death of the Emperor Francis is the second de-
struetive blow given to the treaty which bound
_Austria,
PitiSsia., and Russia into the iniquitous alliance miscalled
" holy," the object of which was .to uphold the doctrine
of the rights derived by kings from Divine authority,
and therefore to deny the power of nations to govern
themselves as may best suit their own convenience. We
ore surprised to 'find, in a late number of the AuStrian
Observer, some remarks suggested by an article which
appeared a short time ago in this journal, by which it is
maintained that no such thing as a Holy Alliance system
has ever existed. The organ of the Metternich cabinet
might have spoken truly in the future tense, now that
Cray the junior of-the thre-e'Supporters of the Haiti' 417,
fiance reniaius on his legs, and is likely to be left the
sale champion of the . cause which the treaty was un-
questionably intended to defend; but is it seriously now
meant to be denied at Vienna that no such alliance 'as
that which is called " holy" ever existed ? And tbe
treaty of 1815, formally signed, ranted, and exchanged
--:s.What else was it to effect than what was afterwards
sought aLthe different congresses in which the despots
assembled for the avowed purpose of crushing liberty
throughout the continent of Europe ? The Austrian
Observer replies to our remarks by endeavouring to shoW•
that the alliance hitherto existing between the great des-
.piits of the continent was a general One " based on jus-
tice, morality, and religion," and therefore that all good

governments will be disposed to take part in.it, " even.
the new English ministry,.which will see the necessity
of adopting its policy." The new English ministry will
probably feel duly grateful for the good opinion it has in-
spired the Austrian Writer with ; but we dare to say it,
zviil choose to follow that line of policy which is suitable
to the interests of Great Britain, which do not tally at
all points with those of the alliance, whose principles the
organ of the Austrian cabinet now chooses to give us a
new version of. We dare say, too, that the new British
Ministry will be at all times found willing and ready to
adopt the police suited to one ,of the late leading mem-
bers of the Holy Alliance, when the other chooses to de-
part from that system which is "based on justice and
morality"‘and—swarms of Cossacks. An alliance•hav-
ing such an object in view might at all times he relied
upon by the Austrian cabinet; but we rather think it
must look elsewhere for support whenever it seeks to
crush freedom with grape-shot and the bayonet. The
Cossacks, with their panoply of long spears and political
• holiness, are likely in such cases to prove its own faith-
ful