Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... that it may be as far as possible purely Danish, and offer no scope for the further introduction of Danish elements. In this way all future misunderstandings would be effectually avoided; and Article XIX. of the Treaty of Vienna has indeed already established perfect freedom of emigration between Germany and Denmark. "I leave it entirely to your judgment as to what use you may make, if any, of this despatch, or whether you consider that my views on the subject must already be known at Berlin through the reports of Baron Werther. "Accept, etc." Of all the delicate and complicated diplomatic Rome, questions Baron Beust was called upon to solve, the negotiations with Rome were unquestionably among the most difficult. The Reichsrath had voted a modification of certain laws;* these had been sanctioned by the Emperor, but were in direct contravention with the substance of the Concordat (concluded on 18th of August, 1855, between Austria and the Pope). Public opinion, whether rightly or wrongly, attributed all the misfortunes which had befallen Austria during the last twenty years to military rule, and mainly to clerical oppression. The latter had brought about the necessity of dualistic go * See Note IV. vernment, in order that the western half of the empire might to some extent enjoy the religious freedom which the eastern had maintained. Hungary had never accepted the Concordat, having shielded herself against its adoption under some ancient laws which had never been repealed. Strange to say, she was actually protected in her opposition to it by the Hungarian church dignitaries, who knew that its adoption would place them in a subordinate position, by centralising religious rule in Austria in the Cardinal Primate of Vienna. The Emperor, his...
