it does not so generally prevail here as in Italy, they have produced some composers whose style is equally original and equally sublime. Some of the earliest and finest compositions in psalmody are ascribed to Martin Luther: and Hasse, Handel, Graun, and the Bachs, will be admitted as worthy rivals of Corelli, Pergolesi, and the finest composers of the Italian school.

They have not, in the judgment of many, succeeded so well in the sister art, of poetry. In some of their most admired poems of the present day there is much of wild imagination: but neither in these, nor in their dramatic productions do the writers appear to have paid that attention to nature which is the groundwork of excellence in every branch of the fine arts.

ARMY OF THE EMPIRE.

"There is, properly speaking," says Zimmermann, "no standing army "of the empire; but in time of war the states of the empire must furnish "their respective quotas of soldiers, according to an agreement made in "the year 1681. At present the army of the empire, when complete, "must amount to 28,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry. The quotas for the "different circles are regulated as follows:

"In case one million and an half of florins should be necessary to be "raised for the war and for the army of the empire, the shares of this 66 sum stand thus:

The products of this extensive country are very numerous and valuable. -The following are the chief.-Corn and cattle of different kinds.Wine is produced in several parts of Germany in great perfection; particularly in the palatinate of the Rhine, and the adjoining countries.— Salt is produced in great abundance. The Durnberg, a salt-work in the cirlce of Bavaria, according to Zimmermann, yields annually 750,000lb.There are others of vast extent and value in Saxony, Suabia, and other circles.

Germany is very rich in minerals likewise.-The Hartz-mountains in Lower Saxony contains gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, zinc, cobalt, vitriol, and sulphur.-Silver is coined annually in the Upper Hartz, according to the same writer, to the amount of 600,000 dollars, and sometimes more: and the value of all the minerals of the Hartz amounts to near double that sum.-The mines of Upper Saxony are still richer: they have yielded 84,000lb. of silver in a year: and the celebrated Saxon cobalt, chiefly used

in

in making the blue colour called smalte, is estimated to be nearly equal in value to the above quantity of silver.

The Germans are not advantageously situated for foreign trade. But they have a great variety of manufactures, many of which are excellent in their kind, and are in great request; such as the linen of Silesia and Saxony, and the porcelain and glass of Dresden and Berlin.

HEREDITARY

HEREDITARY STATES OF THE EMPEROR.

REVENUE.

THE emperor's revenue, according to Zimmermann, is as follows:

If from this sum we deduct the revenue of the Netherlands and Lombardy, which are now lost to the house of Austria, it will bring the whole sum to 8,434,848 florins. And if to that we add 1,000,000 florins from Illyria, 300,000 from Buckowina, and 12,000,000 from Gallicia and Lodomiria, ceded to it by the first partition of Poland, it will be raised to 9,764,848 florins.-To this sum must also be added the revenue of the

territories

territories secured to the emperor by his last treaty with the French. republic.

The debts of the Austrian monarchy, according to Zimmermann, amounted to 200,000,000 florins at the time that he wrote. "In 1770," he says, "the public expenditure amounted to 83,500,000 florins, and was exceeded by the revenue by more than 6,000,000.

ARMY.

The emperor's army, according to the regulation of 1779, consisted of the following troops.

"There are besides the general, staff, or field engineers, &c."

In order to provide a regular supply of accomplished officers, the house of Austria has established a military academy for 400 cadets at Neustadt, a town situated a few miles from the capital. There is, moreover, an academy of engineers at Vienna; and each regiment has a school, in which forty sons of soldiers are educated."

PRODUCT AND COMMERCE.

The Austrian dominions have several natural advantages.-The fertility

of the soil in many parts is very great, particularly in Hungary: it is not only