The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-19
Death Of Prince Schwarxenberg, the Primo
Minister Of Austria.

Cyrom the London Times April IL
The intelligence Of the sudden death Of Prince Schwar
zenlerg, which took place Mt Vienna Monday last,
april 81 from stroke apoplexy reached this country
yesterday afternoon In presence Of so abrupt and dis
tressng catastrophe which has swept away statesman
Of such remarkable enruce, from the pride of empire
and the vgor ofmanhood the harshcr judgments Of poll
tcal G1e hushed and call most willingly to mind
those qualities Of the late Imperial Minister which
bed bim to his sovereign and his country from
unexnmpled peris Those qualities Of unveared devo-
tioh to the public service Of mistaken resolution in tho
hour Of danger and Of determination 20 restore at all
hazards the authority which had just been shaken and
Ovsrthrown by the revolution enabled Prince Schwnrzcn
brg to perform task which would have failed in any
feetler gentle hand. He found the Empire in
ruins and he il entire lie found the authority
Of the Imperial Court at lowest sbbetackcd in Italy,
rejected In Hungary deridod in Vienna and eaced at
FrankfOrt-insomuch that the Tyrol seemed the only
possession which the House Of apsburg could call its
He left that authority absolute throughout
the dominoDs of the crown. and influential
To have achieved that work in three years aud half
was the part Of Ordinary and although
the employed by Prince Scbwarzenbcrg not
unfrcqut Dy tainted with the spirit Of military dcspot
ism, and dictated by his imperous character he has
given his life to the duty he had undertaken to perform
and like Count Brandenburg who succceded under sim
lar crcumtanc in etcmmng the torrent of the rcyou
ton in Prussia he exhausted the last powers Of nature in
the moment of Tho cabinet has its victims
well as the Senate or the field Of battlo
Prince Felix sohwarzenberg born ON the "a OF Oc
tober 1900 and 1t was on the 2lst OF November ls4S
that he raised to the high once which he continued
to hold till the hour of his death His earlier years had
been devoted TO pleasure to galantry aud at times to
military life, Tor he held the rank OF Lieutenant tieiu
Marshal in the imperial army and served with distnc
tion under Marhal Radszky in Italy lie had filled the
diplomatic posts Of Austrian Minister Mt Turin and at
Naples whit latter appointment he still held on the out
brtrk Of the revolution in March, 1S4S But nothing
seemed yet to have marked him out for the highess
Office In the empire After the fall OF Prince Metermcn
the old adhcrens Of the former government were sue
coFsively called upon to mount The breach. Count Fic
ouelmont Barou Wessenbcrg attempted the dutios
Of ministers and appeal also made to the leading
mombc~ OF the liberal party who had suddenly become
picuous members Of the State. The failure Of all
these expedients was rapid and complete The history
Of the wretehed governments that existed in Austria
during the summer Of 1913 only be compared 70
the ministerial combinations Of Louis NVI IN Itsi,
which gave sure warning of the dissolution OF tho
monarchy But In Austria the army was still faithful
and inds Dc udent In October Vienna itself was in
state of total anarchy followed by military conquest aud
subsection Italy had already obtained truce by the
yslor and skill Of Marshal kadetzky. But In Hungary
tho preparations for civil had just assumed
deadly character. The Slavonian elements in
tive fermentation in many other provinces Of the
pire. The union Of Austria with Germany which had
been for centuries the true Of her acendancy
the less civilized Of her subjects openly
naccd by the schemes for the OF the
GeImanlc body. Add to these external and internal
dangers that the finances of the empire in dc-
ploable condition and that the organization OF tho
amy was by means equal to the triple duty IL nao
to perform and may form idea Of the state of the
nation when Prince Schwarzenberg accepted the hlse
ofce in the government With a headstrong .eiSo.y
and courage which seemed to take no account !" .no
dangers before him he at repudiaed M. coNs'oS
and compromise, and resolved to sn1er no A
the imperial power long he was US ppresohsavo-
uropc had anticipated that the hold OF Austria on nay
was weakened or shaken of by her disasters ~ Nome
ute the reverseths imperial outposts were extenoed
Ieow the Appenincs, and tho imperial poucy pressed
yh absolute sway over parts Of the Peninssla hereto