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228 REGNARD’S JOURNEY TO LAPLAND.
that the principal occupation of the fcholarsis, to go at night, from ftreet to ftreet,
and fing, when they beg for alms: this is a common practice of all the ftudents of
Germany.
We arrived at Vienna on the 2oth day of September. One part of the court was
abfent, and there was only here that of the Emprefs Dowager, who is of the houfe of
Tyrol. The Emperor wasat Oldenburg, where he held a diet, which all the Palatines
and great lords of Hungary attended, both to fettle the affairs of the rebels, which
have occupied attention for more than fifteen years, and to affift in the coronation of
the Emprefs, Queen of Hungary. The Emperor arrived two days after at Vienna ; and
we returned with him from Hungary. He intended to pafs the whole winter at Vienna,
and afterwards to go to the diet at Ratifbon.
The Hungarians are proud and magnificent in diamonds. The Palatine of Hun-
gary or Vice-King is the richeft : he had lately received the order of the Fleece from
the King of Spain, vacant by the death of the Prefident, who had married the Princefs
of Holftein, where I was prefent, and where all the people have their rendezvous ; he
had long adminiftered the affairs of the Empire, and has fince been blamed, and turned
out of the miniftry. Abeley has taken his place in the government.
The Hungarians are not tall, but their drefs tends to give them a good air, together
with the cock feathers which they wear upon their heads ; they carry as many feathers
as they have beheaded Turks in battle. ‘Their country is the moft productive in the
world in corn, wine, and pafturage, but they are at prefent ruined; their wine of
Tockay is efteemed the beft.
Vienna is the capital of Auftria, and the feat of the empire; it was attacked in
by the great Soliman, with an army of an hundred thoufand men; but he was
obliged to raife the fiege. The Turkith arms, which are above the tower of Saint
Stephen, are witnefles of a good refiftance ; they have been left there, either asa mark
of this a€tion, or from the articles of the capitulation concluded in this manner. The
city of Vienna is not large, but it is populous, notwithftanding the horrid ravages of
the plague two years ago, which deftroyed more than two hundred thoufand men.
he ftreets are handfome, and efpecially thofe of the quarter of the nobles. The
churches are magnificent here, and above all thofe of the Jefuits, who have three con-
vents here; and are the mafters at Vienna. ‘They gather a very confiderable tax upon
thofe who enter the city after eight o’clock in fummer, and fix in winter; one muft
pay four-pence, and this isa dreadful monopoly. All the fafhionables aflemble in the
church of Saint Michael and Sainte-Croix ; the ladies are placed on one fide, and
the gentlemen on the other. We faw there the fifter of Montecuculi, the Countefs of
Arach and for cavalier Noftiche Bouquin ———.
The gala days with the Emperor are certain days of rejoicing, when every body is
fuperbly drefled. ‘The precious {tones are to be met with in abundance: andI do not
believe there is any place in the world where they are more plenty; the rejoicings
take place on the Emperor’s birth-day, on thofe of the Emprefs &c.
The Emperor is a younger fon of Ferdinand the Third. His elder brother died
Arch-Duke at eighteen or twenty years of age ; he was a very handfome Prince. The
Emperor was taken from among the Jefuits to be put in his place; but he was rather
born for the convent than the throne.
Ferdinand the Third had three wives, the firft was called Mary, the daughter of
Phillip the Third, King of Spain, by whom he had three fons. ‘The firft, as I have
faid, died King of the Romans, the fecond is at prefent Emperor, and the third died
Bifhop of Paflau and of Breflaw.
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