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RIESBECK’s TRAVELS THROUGH GERMANY. 2r
play the great conqueror over them, and many other circumftances, might be improy-
ed into bleflings on thefe finall focieties.
The courts of Stutgard and Carlfruhe are the only ones I have met with, which
feemed to have any fenfe of the duty of making the fubject happy. ‘Vhe reft appear
vain enough to conceive their people created for them, not themfelves for their people.
‘The treafurers of thefe petty lords, with fome of whom I was well acquainted, make a
very effential difference between the interefts of the court and thofe of the people; and
though the fubjeét is under no apprehenfion, as I have faid, of grofs tyranny, yet he
is by no means fafe from having his pocket picked by the nicer operations of finance.
The education of moft of thefe lords is fo thoroughly neglected, as hardly to admit
of better hopes. It is almoft univerfally in the hands of priefts, Part of thefe are
monks, whofe knowledge is in a manner all wrapped up in their cowls, and part are
young abbes, who are jult come from fchool, and only feek to make their fortunes by
the connections of their pupils. “The monk teaches that a reverence to Saint l’rancis,
Benedi&, or Ignatius, a regular attendance on mafs, the telling beads, and. giving alms:
to monatteries, are objects which will make amends for many “tranfgreflions of another
kind.
LETTER VIL
Munich.
THE road from Augfburg to Munich, lies through Dachau, which is two miles from
Augiburg and Nymphenburg. Great part of tlie country, which you fee on this road
is entirely uncultivated. ‘There was a project to bring the Memnonites from the Pa:
latinate to cultivate it, but failed, becaufe the court confeflor exclaimed againft any in-
troduction of different religions. ‘Che buildings at Nymphenburg are magnificent, and
deferve to be viewed. :
The caftle of Nymphenburg was began in 1663, by the Eleétrefs Adelaide, confort
of the Elector Ferdinand Maria ; but much has Sheen added to it by the fucceeding
electors. Many things are worth looking at in the palace; and the gardens are the
largeft in Germany; but what is moft remarkable, are the rooms which contain the
picture of the fixteen miftrefles of the Eletor Maximilian Emanuel, and the Emperor
Charles the Seventh. The public exhibition of thefe portraits is an offence to public
manners, which has not, perhaps, its like in Europe.
In the gardens there is a cloyfter of nuns of Notre Dame, and under the fame roof,
parted only by a wall, an hofpice of capuchin friars. ‘This cuftom of building convents
and cloy{ters near each other, was very common in the tenth century.
There isa china manufacture here, but it feems fallen to decay.
On my arrival at the inn, a pretty hoftefs ftepped up, looked me very fufpicioufly
in the face, and put feveral queftions; which, for want of fuflicient fkill in her pros
vincial dialect, I could anfwer but by ‘halves. As I cannot endure to be much quef-
tioned by innkeepers, I defired her, fomewhat roughly, to let me know, without any
more ceremony; whether I could lodge and board in her houfe for fome days? . With
a great deal of difficulty, fhe at laft gave me to underftand, that fhe had taken me for
a Jew, and had {worn to fome faint or other never to entertain a Jew. I was, as you
may fuppofe, near leaving the houfe; an explanation, however, took place, and the
next day, after my beard, which was rather of the longeft, had been taken off, we
were fully reconciled, and have agreed very well ever fince,
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