e coined, in the year
1300. The silver mines are now exhausted, though other mines, of copper,
zinc, &c. are wrought in the neighbourhood. The population is only half
of what it once was. --ED.

{5} The expression of Madame Pfeiffer's about Frederick "paying his
score to the Austrians," is somewhat vague. The facts are these. In
1757 Frederick the Great of Prussia invaded Bohemia, and laid siege to
Prague. Before this city an Austrian army lay, who were attacked with
great impetuosity by Frederick, and completely defeated. But the town
was defended with great valour; and during the time thus gained the
Austrian general Daun raised fresh troops, with which he took the field
at Collin. Here he was attacked by Frederick, who was routed, and all
his baggage and cannon captured. This loss was "paying his score;" and
the defeat was so complete, that the great monarch sat down by the side
of a fountain, and tracing figures in the sand, was lost for a long time
in meditation on the means to be adopted to retrieve his fortune.

{6} I mention this little incident to warn the traveller against parting
with his effects.

{7} The true version of this affair is as follows. John of Nepomuk was
a priest serving under the Archbishop of Prague. The king, Wenceslaus,
was a hasty, cruel tyrant, who was detested by all his subjects, and
hated by the rest of Germany. Two priests were guilty of some crime, and
one of the court chamberlains, acting under royal orders, caused the
priests to be put to death. The archbishop, indignant at this, placed
the chamberlain under an interdict. This so roused the king that he
attempted to seize the archbishop, who took refuge in flight. John of
Nepomuk, however, and another priest, were seized and put to the torture
to confess what were the designs of the archbishop. The king seems to
have suspected that the queen was in some way connected with the line of
conduct pursued by the archbishop. John of Nepomuk, however, refused,
even though the King with his own hand burned him with a torch.
Irritated by his obstinate silence, the king caused the poor monk to be
cast over the bridge into the Moldau. This monk was afterwards
canonised, and made the patron saint of bridges.--ED.

{8} Albert von Wallenstein (or Waldstein), the famous Duke of Friedland,
is celebrated as one of the ablest commanders of the imperial forces
during the protracted religious contest known in German history as th