COUNT BEUBT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sra,*— Kindly allow me to supplement by a few remarks the obituary notice on the abovenamed statesman in to day's Herald. He entered the Austrian service only in 1866, being then in his 58th year, after bringing, as leading spirit of his narrower fatherland, the Kingdom of Saxony, to the verge of political extinction through mis* judging the signs of the times in one of the most critical periods of German history. AM Saxon Premier he was extremely amenable to foreign influences, being one (let us hope the last one) of a Certain type of statesmen in Germany whom her deadliest foes, such as Riohelieti, Louis XIV., and Napoleon L delighted to bribe and to deal with, and who for many a century kept her in such degradation that things and politics German were held in supreme contempt by every civilised nation, however small and insigniSomt. No wonder he was, even before 1866, persona gratitaima with the Emperor Of Austria, to whom (for the time being) hid implacable hatred of the reformed state of German affairs was an additional recommendation to entrust him with the dualistic adjustment of his monarchy, since the unpopularity and the absolute want of progress of Austrian statesmen pure and simple threatened its very existence. -As Austrian Chancellor Count Beast fought tooth and nail for an alliance With France in 1870, and it was only thanks to the threat of Alexander 11. of Russia to send an army across the Austrian frontier as soon as an Austrian army , should cross Germany's border that cautious councils prevailed with the Emperor of Austria. The intriguing nature and the "French heart " of Count Beust, which had banished him from his native country, also entailed his disgrace in his adopted country. We must leave to a future Carlyle to pronounce finally whether "his polioy was thoroughly Liberal," and whether "he was an energetio and broad* minded reformer."— am, ftc.,
Penrose, October 27, 1886. R. FrickE.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 3
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