Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1850, Vol. 67 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1850, Vol. 67

Vmu Box quarto-unset Slowly, butstead theforceeoforderre gained th ascendant over the as saults of anarchy. The Tyrol, over steadfast in its loyalty. First otl'ered an asylum to the emperor, when driven horn his capital {me was neat recovered, and lie coerced by the moral courage andskilful dispo sitions of Prince Windischgrats; law, shof after, reinforccdlhg t ty asiria, regained asceu t on the Minnie, routed the revolutionary rabble of Italy, and restored Milan to theim govern ment; Vienna, after a con hiet, was won by the forces of Order; and Jellachlch and Win enjoyed the proud triumph of havin restored his 'taltothetrdiscro sovereign. Nngary, inhabited by a holder and more numerous race, acp touted by stronger Passions, held out longest, and was 0 y subdued after a sangnln conflict, by the amused vigour an national passions,aidedby the support of the Colossus of the North, which has so often sent ferth its battalions as the last resource of order and religion, when all but van quiahed by the forces of anarchy and infidelity Yet, though thus con strain in the last extremity, to call in the aid of the Czar, and arrays hundred thousand Muscovites on the plains of Hungary, the stand thus made by the Austrian monarchy is not the less glorious and worthy of eternal remembrance. It demon strates what so many other passages in the history of that noble people indicate, how t is the strength, and unbound the resources, of a brave and patriotic nation, even when collided by the most terrible disasters; and how uniformly Providence, in the end, lends its protection to a in who have shown themselves w y of its blessings, by faithfu dis charging their duty in a {talked of disaster. The year 1849 will ever rankwith the riesol'mariatheresa, the triumph Aspern, the devotion ofw asthebri htest periods in the long glorious astrianannals.

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