This prince was crowned KING of the ROMANS; and addressed, like the emperor, with the title of 'majesty.'-But the pomp and glory of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE have passed away; and, like the more ancient, and more powerful empires of the world, it is numbered among the things that were. Napoleon, who aspired to the dominion of the West, seems, when emperor of the French, to have had in view the ancient custom of the German empire, in styling his successor-apparent, King of Rome.

The French revolution, and the subsequent power of Bonaparte, rapidly hastened on the dismemberment of the Germanic empire. The provinces on the left bank of the Rhine were overwhelmed by the French:-Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Saxony, were erected into kingdoms, — with the annexation of smaller states; and the battle of Austerlitz, and the subsequent Treaty of Presburg, destroyed the power of Austria, and deprived her of her principalities of the Tyrol, and Suabia, -her barriers against Italy and France. In 1806, soon after this treaty, most of the states in the north and south of Germany, renounced their connexion with the empire,-and joined in a league, entitled The CONFEDERATION of the RHINE,' under the protection of the Emperor NAPOLEON. The confederated powers agreed to hold their legislative assemblies at Frankfort; and to restrict their services, and assistance, to each other:-in

short, they were to constitute a cluster of military states, under the virtual dictation of Napoleon. The German emperor, Francis II,-thus reduced in authority and power,-formally abdicated the title of Emperor of Germany, at Vienna, Aug. 6, 1806, assuming that of Emperor of Austria. Thus was dissolved an empire that had lasted, with fluctuations, for the space of a thousand years,-dating from Charlemagne.

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At the end of 1813, the French were expelled from every part of Germany; and the deposition of Napoleon, the downfall of the power of France, and the dissolution of the Confederacy of the Rhine, in 1814,-restored the smaller sovereigns to their dominions. On Bonaparte's reappearance in France, from Elba, in 1815, the most gigantic efforts were made, in Germany, to prevent his return to power; and on his final overthrow at Waterloo, on the 18th of June, in the same year, it is said that 1,200,000 men,-armed, and unarmed,-were prepared to march against him. The Congress of Vienna now made a proposal to Francis, the Austrian emperor, that he should resume the ancient title,-which offer he declined to accept.

Germany once more assumed the appearance, at least, of a political whole,-in the constitution of the Confederation, (Bundes Verfassung), which was formed in June, 1815. In this imperfectly balanced union of powers, Austria and Prussia have naturally

a predominant influence; though they have withholden from the Confederation several of their provinces which are not German. The component parts of the GERMANIC CONFEDERATION are thirty-eight,-thirty-four being monarchical states, the heads of which have various titles. The four remaining parts, are the free cities of Frankfort on the Maine, Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck. The principal object of the Confederacy was to secure the independence and integrity of each State; and to maintain internal, and external tranquillity, by uniting to check any mutual aggressions among the States themselves;-and to repel the attack of a foreign enemy. In case of clashing interests, or the occurrence of disputes,-no part of the Confederation can go to war, or make peace, or a truce, or any such engagement, independently of the resteach member being bound to yield to the decision of the whole. The internal management of the States is left, in general, to the care of the respective governments; and they are always to have in readiness for the purposes of the Confederation, an army, levied in the proportion of one man to every hundred inhabitants. The Diet, or Assembly of Plenipotentiaries, consists of delegates from the various states, and is held at Frankfort.

LETTER VI.

Road to Cologne-Juliers-Bergheim-Catholic Subscription for the New Testament, in German-Cologne -The RhineChurches-Deutz-Cologne Cathedral - The Three KingsChurches of St. Ursula, St. Géréon, and St. Peter-Voyage on the Rhine to Bonn-Fieschi-The Seven Mountains-BonnCathedral-Popplesdorf-Kreutzberg-Protestant Church Bonn-Church of the Jesuits-King of Prussia's Birth-Day -University of Bonn.

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MY DEAR FRIEND: We left the good accommodations of the Rhine Hotel, at Aix-la-Chapelle, at six in the morning, for Cologne; a distance of about forty-five miles. We stopped, first, at St. Juliers, a strongly fortified place, situated in a plain; where our horses were baited with bread. On inquiring what bread it was?-the answer was, 'Rocken-brot,' rye-bread; and it was amusing to see the horses, and the driver, standing together, and sharing the same fare.-We afterwards traversed a flat, and unenclosed, but highly cultivated country. The paved road was lined with fine trees, among which were the apple, the cherry, and the walnut,-interspersed with numerous cru

cifixes; some of which stood in the corn-fields, surrounded, to some distance, with turf.

Every thing now reminded us of the Prussian authority; all the barriers, railed bridges, and guard-houses, being painted in white and black stripes. We also observed that, since we had changed governments, the road was measured in a novel manner; small stones being placed in the ground, thirty or forty in a mile, at regular intervals,-marking the distance from Cologne. The weather was intensely hot; and, at Bergheim, we stopped till the heat of the day was abated. This little town, with its walls and gates, reminds you, like most other places,-even the smallest, in these parts, of wars and sieges. It is a great thoroughfare into Germany; and five or six carriages were sometimes seen posting through it at once, during our stay.

Judging from appearances, superstition seems to increase, in this direction, rather than to diminish. One of the numerous crucifixes we had seen, was just outside one of the gates of Bergheim;--and, here, a poor old lady was carefully telling her beads. It was, however, some counterpoise- to find on the table of the inn,-which was the Duke of Wellington, —a prospectus, printed at Nurenberg, in May, 1835, containing an invitation to Catholic Germany, to unite in subscribing for an edition of the New Testament, in the vernacular tongue, from the