gS riesbegk’s travels through -germahv,

the viftim of the bigotry of the public. Girandolini, who, as a ftranger, had moredifficulty to combat with, than the other, was obliged to uncommon exertions toobtain money, to do as much as Stuwer. He had a great number of labourersat work during the whole fpring and winter, but in the fummer, on the day announc-ed for the exhibition, there happened a great thunder dorm, which fpoiled all he haddone. His difappointment led him to ufe imprecations, and he wa-s difcouraged as anatheid.

The Augarten is likewife one of the fummer amufements, at which you may meetwith all the fine world. This is a large park, which dands in the fame ifland of the Da-nube as the Prater does, and is to the ead of it; it is a work of the Emperor ’s, who,as the infcription over the door dates H has opened it, as a friend of mankind, for a placeof relaxation to all mankind. It is, however, vifited only by the higher orders ; thepeople who fee it is not made for them, voluntarily exclude themfelves : it is adoniffiingin how ffiort a time this park is become what it is. The Emperor , who is determinedto fee his work complete, fpares for neither pains or expence to procure trees halfgrown, and full grown from the mod didant part of the globe. Though there are agreat variety of different trees and ffirubs, and the walks have all the beauties that onecan defire, there is a regularity and uniformity in the whole, which makes it like a trueEngliffi garden. A very broad arm of the Danube , which wadies its banks, gives it agreat deal of life. The mod pleading perfpedive in the whole is that of a large fored■in perfpedtive, which has been cut through on the other fide of the river, and isbounded by the didant hills of Moravia , which flit about it like light clouds. There isa magnificent pavilion, in which-is a billiard-table and refrelhments of all kinds. Tholewho wifli to fee this place in Full beauty, mud vifit it in the height of fummer in themorning. Thecuflom has prevailed for. fome years pad, of coming here to drink mi-neral waters; thefe, it is true, are fetched from upwards of a hundred miles didance,and can therefore do no great good, nor is thefe any need of it, for the invalids are modof them very well, and only come here to enjoy the eafe and freedom which obtain atSpa, Pyrmont, and other water-drinking places. Here all ranks, particularly the no-*bleffe and the literati mix together ; the ladies drink that they may (hew themfelves innegliges , and the men drink becaufe the ladies are not fo diff in negliges as they are whenfull dreffed.

There are feverat other places of public refort in this town ; that which is mod ge-nerally vifited is the Rempart, which, though expofed to a very warm fun, is almod al-ways full. The middling people cannot go to church in the afternoon, without takinga turn round the Rempart, which takes them up an hour ; thofe of higher ranks walkto {hew their dogs, which in this place only are fafe from horfes and carriages. Houndsare a great article of luxury here ; the fine folks endeavour to outdo each other inthem ; at prefent the little Pomeranian breed is all the mode; one of them either fnowwhite, or coal black, and with a {harp fnout, will fetch from ten to fifteen ducats. PrinceX, gave twenty-five ducats for one ; every man who fets up at all for ton, mud havehis fpijjcben, which is here the proper name of the dog. The peafants, who are thebetter for this folly, have built a dog-market adjoining to the poultry-market.

The garden of the Belvedere in the fuburb of Rennevig, formerly in the poffeffion ofPrince Eugene , is likewife at prefent a public walk; the garden has nothing particularabout it but the palace, both on account of its builder, and its admirable fituation, isone of the mod remarkable places in the town ; from the balcony on the terrace, youcommand a view over the whole town, and all the country round. Some years ago theimperialpidures were moved hither} the gallery confids of twenty-two large rooms ;

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