New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-19
nrATU OPP PRINCE SCHWAEzRNBERG.

DEATH OP PRINCE SCHWARZRNBERG.
In another column of this paper is mar
rated the touching visit just made to the tomb of
WASHINGTON by LOUIS KossUTH, the chief iustra-
ton of genius, patriotism and misfortune in the
tempestuous record of these passing times. We arc
here to chronicle the sudden death Of that Austrian
Minister under whose administration Hungary and
Kossuth were overthrow, and through whose
force of intellect and INSCRIPTIONS energy of char
acter the seeming reconstruction of Austrian power
was effected, by means Of fraud, bloodshed and
cruelty, such as the gigantic crimes of Austrian
history have perhaps, often equaed, but never sur
passed.
Prince Felix Lewis John Frederic ScHwARZEN-
BERG died of apoplexy, at Vienna, on Monday, the
I'd instant, in the SD year of his age. He was
born on the I'd of October, 1900, and was nephew
Of the celebrated Prince Schwarzenberg, who, in
1913 and 1914, commanded the allied armies
against Napoleon. The immense estates of the
family were inherited by his elder brother John.
Felix devoted himself chiefly to diplomacy. In
1925 he was Secretary to the Austrian Legation
at st. Petersburg and in that capacity sheltered
Prince Troubetskoi, who was concerned in the
famous conspiracy which attended the accession
of the present Gar to the throne. The ambassa-
dor was absent at the time, and Schwarzenberg,
as acting head Of the embassy, resisted all de-
mands of the Russian authorities for the surrender
of the fugitive. Finally, the house was surround
ed, and Trubestkoi gave himself up but his friend
and protector was obliged to leave Russia in con-
sequence. Subsequently he went to London,
where he distinguished himself chiefly by seducing
and running away with lady of high rank; he
was prosecuted for this exploit in England, and
as the damages and costs of the suit were never
paid, he was declared an outlaw. Afterward at
Naples, where he was several years ambassador,
he was equally notorious for his career of galan-
try, and is said in one instance to have suffered
the bastinado at the hands of an enraged husband
This embassy he resigned on March %, 1913, as
we believe, to serve under Marshal Radetzky in
Northern Italy. Finally, on November 81, of the
same year, after Windischgratz had extingushed
every trace of liberty at Vienna, and was on the
point of marching to renew the process in Hun
gary, ScHwARzENBERG was made the Prime
Minister of the EMPIRE which post he filed until
bis decease.
Had the ever-ready talent, energy and persis-
tence, displayed by him in this capacity, been en-
poyed in behalf of liberty instead of against it,
the future would have forgotten the earlier foles Of
his life in admiration of his later services to HUMANE
ty; but as it is history will record his name with
execration. He is responsible for all the gloomy
catalogue of crimes of which Haynau was the zeal
GUS executor. 1t was virtually by his authority
that the thirteen Generals were executed at Arad
in violation Of the terms implied at their surrender.
He put to death the gallant and generous Louis
Batthyanyi, deed that even his apologists do not
attempt to justify. He dictated the measures
of treachery and of severity that have rendereda
Hungary waste of desoation, and reestablished
the Overthrcwn despotism of the Hapsburgs. He
framed the lying Constitution Of March A, 1919, and
annulled il when its purpose was accomplished.
Instead Of the forms Of liberty then promised, he
has established a centralized despotism far more
perading, harsh, and burdensome than that of
Metternich. He has restored the Imperial House
of Austria but only to render its downfall certain
and entire hereafter.
In Germany, also, it was Schwarzenberg who
chiefly extinguished the embers of freedom that
ls4S had lighted. His intrigues finished the
Frankfort Parliament, and his bold and dashing ar
rogance rode over the remains of the revolution
and the weak sentimental King of Prussia at the
same time. The same blow put out the ideas of
German unity and Prussan predominance.
When the miserable Elector of Hesse Cassel had
fed before the passive resistance of his subjects,
it was Schwarzenberg who sent an Austrian army,
in the name of the Frankfort Diet, which in con-
tempt Of Prussia he had revived, to restore the
Elector and abolish the Constitution of his coun-
try. 1t was Schwarzenberg who sent troops to
Northern Germany and put an end to the war of
Holstein with Denmark. Everywhere Prussia and
sentimental Constitutionalism were Inundated
and Austria exalted, by this quick and oyerbearing
Minister. His last great project, that of Gus
toms Union, including all Germany with the Aus
TRAN Empire, is left by his death unfinished. 1t
was conceived in the interests OF despotism, but
could it be carried out would be an omnipotent
agency Of freedom.
Few men Of our day have done so much in so
little time as Schwarzenberg. That he was served
by uncommon talent we do not deny !; but the best
part Of his success was due to a genius for au-
dacity which even Danton might have enyied.-
Had a conscience been added to his cndowmeuts.
he would have accomplished infinitely lcss.-
Naughty, arrogant, unserupulous, unforgising, he
yet had admirable elements Of character, as wit
ness ias attempt to save Trubetskoi. In other
circumstances, the energy and power of his nature
might have been developed without its hateful
QUANTITIES, and he might have left fair fame be-
hind HIM but, as it was, they made him the tool
OF tyranny ard the scourge Of hi. race.