The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

GERMANY.

The following brief notices of several of the continental capitals, are taken from a private letter, addressed to the Editor of a London paper by a friend, at present on a tour in Germany :-

" Munich is one of the most improving of the towns I have seen. The new part of the city is being built in a style of great magnificence, and the good taste of the sovereign seems to extend its influence to the public. He has caused to be built one of the largest, handsomest and most complete theatres in Germany, perhaps in the world; and he is now occupied on a grand and classical building, to contain specimens of the fine arts, which will rival, if not surpass, the far famed Louvre.

" Among the treasures which this gallery will contain, is the Venus of Canova, a work which rivals the finest remains of antiquity. The tone of morals in Bavaria is said to be much in the style of Paris, or even less severe. The ladies are among the handsomest, and the race of men the most martial I have seen in Germany. The present king is young, popular, and possessed, I believe, of considerable ability.

" Whilst at Munich, I often thought of Campbell's splendid poem. Hohenlinden is not far from the town; and a branch of the " Iser, rolling rapidly," forms a chief beauty in the principal pleasure grounds laid out by the celebrated Count Rumford, who was long minister here, and whose name goes down to posterity as that of a practical philosopher.

"My journey from Munich to Vienna was a very interesting one, particularly that point of it which generally goes under the name of Austrian Switzerland. The mountain scenery in the neighborhood of Salzbourg, indeed, rivals that of Switzerland in magnitude of feature and sublimity not quite to it, as the height, and impetuosity of the water of the Danube, from heavy rains, frightens our boatmen into the harbor.

" The Danube, though picturesque, especially betwixt Lintz. and Vienna----rocky banks and vineyards, ruined castles and monasteries, are the ingredients of the scenery, ever varying and ever interesting. The two whirlpools which make rather an intimidating noise, are among the notabilia of the voyage. When they are passed, it is customary to give the boatmen who have steered you safe, a small present; and never did I see charity or gratitude manifest itself more eagerly than in our passengers whose nerves were still quaking from the danger, real or imaginary, from which they had just escaped. The boatmen do wisely to give their sentiments no time to cool.

Vienna, with all its pomp, is not much to my taste. The inhabitants are a formal, obsequious, servile set, and I think the poorest looking race of cockneys, (so we call the natives of every great capital) in all Germany.

" The present Emperor is said to be very amiable, and is much beloved: but the edict of his predecessor seems to have frightened away any.

"I paid a visit to Presburg, with a view to see their celebrated diet, consisting of the most noble looking set of men I ever beheld. The Hungarians are very proud of their liberty; a strange kind of liberty, in which the noble and the slave are the only classes. The nobles are every thing, and when they talk of Hungarian liberty, they mean that they themselves are free. They manifest their liberty by resisting every attempt of taxation, however equitable, and the emperor is consequently obliged as his only resource, to take their produce, a measure of doubtful expediency, as the tax must fall chiefly on the Austrians. The diet demanded an extension of their rights- a constitution; in a word, they and the Austrian government are constantly at loggerheads.

"Of all the people in Germany, the Sax- ons please me most; a fine, intelligent. polite race; inhabiting a highly cultivated and happy land: comfort characterizes the people, and liberality the government.

"The Prussians, with a government as arbitrary as that of Austria, have yet the bearing of freemen. Opinion is not perse- cuted there. The government is omni- potent, because it coincides with the enlight- ened public opinion. Trade is free- strangers are not molested. Prussia moves on in the general march of improvement."