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He therefore took four days in getting to Prague. He thought it probable that here a watch might be kept for him for, had he travelled straight from Spielberg, this was the point for which, in all probability, he would have made; unless he had gone through Silesia, and then travelled up through Breslau.
"Monsieur," said the girl, taking the coin, "my master is the famous bookseller Lamporani of Milan, one of the leaders of the revolution, and the conspirator of all others whom Austria would most like to have in the Spielberg." "A bookseller's wife! Ah, so much the better," thought he; "we are on an equal footing. And what is her family?" he added, "for she looks like a queen."
He lay confined in Austrian gaols for ten years, eight of which he passed in the Castle of Spielberg in Moravia.
Did you ever see a more jolly-looking man than Professor Schnurr, who was locked up in Spielberg, and got out up a chimney, and through a window? Had he waited a few months there are very few windows he could have passed through.
To what new aspects of civilization and fresh phases of contemporaneous history their liberation suddenly introduced them! Their journey from Brunn to Gradisca was a perfect contrast to that melancholy transit, so many years before, from Venice to Spielberg.
I pledge my honour to the truth of the statement, and were I so allowed, would prove it, to the conviction of any unprejudiced court of justice: but this I cannot hope, as princes are much more disposed to bestow unmerited favours than to make retribution to those whom they have unjustly punished. Francis Baron Trenck died in the Spielberg, October 4th, 1749.
The town of Hollabrunn, taken and re-taken several times, set on fire by the mortars, filled with the dead and dying, remained finally in French possession. The Russians retired in the direction of Brno; our troops followed them and took possession of this town without a fight, although it was fortified and dominated by the well-known citadel of Spielberg.
We re-entered the court-yard, mounted the great staircase, and were conducted into the room from which we had been dragged. The manacles were removed, and we were soon reconducted to San Michele. The prisoners who had been condemned before us had already set out for Lubiana and Spielberg, accompanied by a commissary of police.
His death, believed in Vienna to be miraculous, happened after the following manner; and by this he had induced many weak people, who really believed him a saint, to further his views. Three days before his death, while in perfect health, he desired the governor of the Spielberg would send for his confessor, for that St.
All were spared: but a sentence, to such as understood its meaning, of living death, carcere duro in Spielberg and the Castle of Lubiano, some for ten, others for fifteen, and the remainder for twenty years, was substituted.
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