The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-06-30
Death of Prince Mctteruicb,

lilo ot eiEhty-slx years win pnGiE SER
vico OF more then fifty years, ended tho other
day. in Vienna Clemens Wenzel N-pomuk
Lotbar, or as Ii is more frequently expressed,
Clement Wenccslas, Prince Matternich, is
dead. He was the son of Count Metiernich, q
former associate of kaunit2, after whom lle
war named, and whose daughter be suhse-
t;ucntly married. lie was born at Coblenz,
May 18th, l773, 80 that he had finished his
eighty sixth year. He was the oldest states
man of eminence in Europe; was horn two
wears before Bunker Hill, witnessed the great
Frcueh revolution, observed every step OF the
great Napoleon S career, and lived TO see his
successor, fifty years later, renewing one pavi
Of that career. and wrestling from Austria hrr
Italian possessions. He died just after ths.
Austrian army retreated from Piedmont, hay+
survived iour enough to hear of the terrible
disaster of Magenta.
Mrl.crnicn enterrd the University of Stras.
bourg at the age Of fifteen, remained th0re two
wears and finished his education at MayeBce.
In 1894 he travelled lit England and Holland
and was attached TO the Austrian embassy al
the Hague. During the next year lie married
ihc daughte ter OF kaunitZ. In the Congress ot
R;rsiadt he appeared III deputy from Westpha-
Tia and he afterwards accompanied Count Sta
dion to Berlin aud Petersburg. In 1901 he was
appointed Austrian minister to Dresden, in
I-te} minister to Berlin, and in 1876 minister
to France, where, in the next year he negotia-
led the treaty of Fontainbleau. When War
broke ont between France and Austria, in leu9,
he was sent for, and made Austrian foreign
secretary. lie contriyed 50 far rs Austria
was concerned, the second marriage of Napo-
leon, I'd himself conducted Maria Louisa 10
Paris. In the subseq uent conference oil Prague
and Dresden. he devoted himself TO the cause
of Austria. and from these conferences Napo-
Icons decline may be dated.
In 1sl3 Austria declared war against France,
the declaration being from Metternichs own
pen. The grand alliance was signed at To-
pit2 and the Austrian Emperor rewarded
Metternich for his services by making him Il
Prince of the Empire. In the subsequent
great diplomatic proceedings, Mettcrnlch took
Il leading part and signed the treaty of Paris
on behalfof Austria. He afterwards visited
England, but Wher Sar was renewed, returned
To Vienna, where he was appointed President
Of the Council. He also represented Austria i'll
the Congress of Vienna. From that time. for
a numthcr OF years, his influence in European
affairs surpassed that of any other one man
In 1880, the revolution i'll France excited
alarm at Vienna. whose court sympathi1cd
with the elder Bourbons.~ But Mctternich
brought about friendly relations with Louis
PHILIPPE. Yet lest liberal principles might
spread, he had the Austrian army i'll the l tal-
ian provinces increased, and labored diligently
and successfully; by diplomacy. to keep down
popular movements throughout Germany
This policy was steadily pursued and with
success, until the French revolution of ISIS,
when Austria, too, became convulsed. There
WAS z popular outbreak in which Mttternich
was compelled to resign, the Imperial family
themselves jepring him in his downfall. He
left Vienna travelled hastily and str3lthily,
and finally got safe out of Austria, and by way
of IeipZig and Hamburg, reached England.
where he observed the subsequent disturban- =
ct.s in the Austrian Empire. In 1851, after the
Hungarian inSurrection was crushed he re-
turned 10 Vienna, where he has since lived i'll
comparative retirement.
HIS first wife having died in ls25, he married.
in le27, the Countess Antoinette Won Bellstein.
who died in le29, and married Il third time, in
1881, the Countess Melinic Won Zichy -Fcraris
lie leaves BY his first marriage two daughters;
I,N~l ,AIg lt,H IA In tpH 1Nr.
sons and one daughter. His eldest son. and
The heir TO his rank and his estates. including
the princely estate of johannish.rg, was born
in 1e29, and is now Austrian Minister to Sax
ony.
Metternich was undoubtedly the ablcst man
that Austria has had during his time He was
The most devoted servant of absolutiSm. and
the worst foe of popular rights that this cen
century has seen. There will he few tears
shed over his grave. but the whole world will
acknowledge that he was the man who, after
Napoleon. figured most cOnspicuouSiy IN Eu-
ropPan continental affairs i'll the first half OF
this century.