midst of these agitations and schemes Leopold
II. was seized with a malignant dysentery, which was aggravated by a
life of shameless debauchery, and died on the 1st of March, 1792, in the
forty-fifth year of his age, and after a reign of but two years.

Leopold has the reputation of having been, on the whole, a kind-hearted
man, but his court was a harem of unblushing profligacy. His
broken-hearted wife was compelled to submit to the degradation of daily
intimacy with the mistress of her husband. Upon one only of these
mistresses the king lavished two hundred thousand dollars in drafts on
the bank of Vienna. The sums thus infamously squandered were wrested
from the laboring poor. His son, Francis II., who succeeded him upon the
throne, was twenty-two years of age. In most affecting terms the widowed
queen entreated her son to avoid those vices of his father which had
disgraced the monarchy and embittered her whole life.

The reign of Francis II. was so eventful, and was so intimately blended
with the fortunes of the French Revolution, the Consulate and the
Empire, that the reader must be referred to works upon those subjects
for the continuation of the history. During the wars with Napoleon
Austria lost forty-five thousand square miles, and about three and a
half millions of inhabitants. But when at length the combined monarchs
of Europe triumphed over Napoleon, the monarch of the people's choice,
and, in the carnage of Waterloo, swept constitutional liberty from the
continent, Austria received again nearly all she had lost.

This powerful empire, as at present constituted, embraces:

square miles inhabitants
1 The hereditary States of Austria, 76,199 9,843,490
2 The duchy of Styria, 8,454 780,100
3 Tyrol, 11,569 738,000
4 Bohemia, 20,172 3,380,000
5 Moravia 10,192 1,805,500
6 The duchy of Auschnitz in Galicia, 1,843 335,190
7 Illyria, 9,132 897,000
8 Hungary, 125,105 10,628,500
9 Dalmatia, 5,827 320,000
10 The Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, 17,608 4,176,000
11 Galicia, 32,272 4,075,0