COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUTHORS

TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

VOL. 1855.

LIFE AND TIMES OF STEIN BY J. R. SEELEY, M.A.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

277 F

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

STEIN.

OR

GERMANY AND PRUSSIA IN THE
NAPOLEONIC AGE.

BY

J. R. SEELEY, M.A.,

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF CAMBRIDGE.

COPYRIGHT EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.-VOL. III.

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1879.

The Right of Translation is reserved.

BIBLIOTHECA REGIA MONACENSIS

Stein's flight to the Riesengebirge. Determines to go to Prag. Count
Gessler accompanies him. Reaches Prag and receives letters from the Aus-
trian Minister. Settles at Brünn, where he is joined by his family. Letter
from Gentz. War of 1809. Count Stadion. Compared with Stein. More a
diplomatist than a statesman. The Arch-duke Charles. Compared with
Scharnhorst. Military principles. The Austrian Landwehr. Austria as a
revolutionary Power. What she could gain from the Spanish principle. Chance
of overturning the Kingdom of Westphalia. Failure of the Campaign. Causes
of it. Periods of the war. English mistake. Peace signed. Collapse of
Austria. Stein not employed. Explanation by Gentz. Stein's answer.
Danger of his position. Marianne vom Stein in Hessen. Dörnberg. Rising
in Hessen. Its failure. Marianne arrested. Sent to Paris. Was she inno-
cent? Stein removes to Troppau. His letter to the Prince of Orange. Plan
of a German rising and Stein's part in it. Austria will do nothing. Apparent
destruction and real new birth of Germany.
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CHAPTER II.

STEIN IN RETIREMENT.

Descriptions of Stein. By Count Uwaroff. Faults in this description.
Stein henceforth rather a German than a Prussian. Dalberg as a represen-