FOOTNOTES:
[18] There was some idea of a younger brother being elected.
[19] In three years Suess gained a profit of 20,000 florins out of the sale of jewellery alone.
[20] The Duke, at Suess's instigation, wrote to the Emperor to get the Jew factotum ennobled, but was refused.
[21] On the following night a confectioner set up a transparency exhibiting the Devil carrying off the Duke.
Ignatius Fessler.
On December 15th, 1839, in his eighty-fourth year, died Ignatius Fessler, Lutheran Bishop, at St. Petersburg, a man who had gone through several phases of religious belief and unbelief, a Hungarian by birth, a Roman Catholic by education, a Capuchin friar, then a deist, almost, if not quite, an atheist, professor of Oriental languages in the university of Lemberg, finally Lutheran Bishop in Finland.
He was principally remarkable as having been largely instrumental in producing one of the most salutary reforms of the Emperor Joseph II.