and, on the part of Prussia, the Post-master General de Nagler; they also agreed to induce other states to send Ministers to Frankfort whose presence should occasion no uneasiness, instead of the dangerous or equivocal personages then in office. The two principal Courts thought they could easily induce the secondary states to acquiesce in the changes which they wished: they succeeded in fine, as they have done generally, without any essential exception, in all that they have undertaken in concert against the other German Princes.

We shall not here enter into details on the activity of the Diet from the time of this change till 1832, but we must now examine the men destined to represent Austria and Prussia at the Diet.

The Baron de Münch-Bellinghausen was at the time he was sent to Frankfort between thirty and forty years of age, distinguished in his appearance, and even imposing, whenever he thought it necessary to be so. He has an equal power of assuming elegant and easy manners, and a repulsive and aristocratic deportment, and can be prepossessing and agreeable, or haughty and rude, as an Austrian. He is not married; and is fond of the

table and the fair sex.

Sometimes he gives ba

chelor suppers to the ladies of Frankfort, to which the first and most attractive ladies esteem it a high favour to be invited. Au reste, the Baron, or, since 1833, the Count Münch, (he received the title of Count as a recompense for his proceedings in the affair of the insurrection of Brunswick - an affair in which he was ordered to espouse decidedly the part of Duke Charles) is orderly in the management of his household, and measured in his expenses. Possessed of no fortune at the outset of his public career, he has already acquired by the fruits of his economy fine estates and manors in various provinces of Austria, and principally in Bohemia.

In public affairs M. de Münch-Bellinghausen is experienced and skilful; he has the talent of working with facility, without. detriment to the value of the labour- he has a quick perception, and he is peculiarly apt at presiding over a great assembly, were it even differently constituted than the Diet is. He will never be too precipitate in any affai -he will never impose upon his colleagues by his authority as presiding Minister: he knows always how to return skilfully to his own views and pro

jects, and to persuade the other Ministers, by repeating his propositions under the most varied forms, that an ulterior opposition to the designs of Austria would be unsuitable. It is true that, by an arrangement, by means of which a copy of all propositions and demands emanating from different states is to be sent to him at latest the evening before the sitting, he has a great advantage and much assistance in the direction and the presidency; he can prepare himself when it is necessary, and thus he cannot be exposed to the embarrassment of being surprised. Count Münch has constantly shown the most delicate consideration for his colleague, M. de Nagler; and, on many occasions, when their relative position in the assembly was a very difficult one, on account of the diversity of interests, he has known how to reply to the animated expressions of the enraged Prussian Minister by a calmness as polite as it was cold, which has always secured to him the advantage in the discussion.

Formerly, Count Münch had been a Councillor of Government at Prague, then Captain of the same city (Stadthauptmann), and from his youth he had attracted the attention of Prince Metter

nich, who employed him in the commission for the navigation of the Elbe, and afterwards in the interior of his Cabinet. In this respect, and with regard to the principles which the presiding Minister professes, and the manner in which he knows how to make them prevail, he may be called a pupil of Metternich's; many people think, in fact, that he is destined to be his successor. In a word, Count Münch is an accomplished Austrian statesman, whose talents and aptitude in affairs must be acknowledged, though he has no extraordinary virtues to be recorded, or though one may be obliged, like the author of this memoir, to hate his political principles, and to cast a deserved stigma upon the application which he makes of these principles. Count Münch is the man whom Austria requires at Frankfort, and perhaps no power can boast of being better represented by a Minister in any place whatever.

Let us now turn our attention to the Prussian Minister, the Postmaster-General de Nagler. Born of a Bourgeoise family, he commenced his administrative career in the principalities of Franconia. Formerly M. de Nagler may have had a prepossessing, an interesting exterior, as is said at least

by those who knew him when assessor at Baireuth. The art of making the most of his personal advantages, and of enhancing them by obliging, and, as need requires, submissive manners, drew upon the youth the attention of his superiors, who, doubtless seeing in him some talent for business, favoured him above other persons of the same age. But the fortune of M. de Nagler only dates from the epoch when Prince, then Baron, Hardenberg was sent by Prussia into the principalities of Franconia as first administrator, with the title and rank of Minister. The young Nagler managed to attach himself to the new Minister, and to gain his affections to an extraordinary degree, by every kind of attention. Thus Nagler ad

vanced rapidly, and became a Privy Councillor of the Government, and First Councillor and Reporter to the Minister, at an age when formerly these places were not accessible, and especially not to a commoner. When Hardenberg took the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nagler followed him to Berlin, and received the office of Councillor Reporter to the Minister, with the title and rank of Privy Councillor of Legation. In this quality he delivered over, as Commissioner,