A person who secures his place beforehand in the mallepost at Ca lais to Paris, and at Paris to Strasburg, and who can manage to avoid the two days' delay at Paris, occasioned by the necessity of exchanging his passe-provisoire, might reach Strasburg in five days from London. As is observed in the body of the work, the voyage from Strasburg to London down the Rhine may be performed by Steam-boats in FIVE DAYS. - LONDON TO NAPLES. To Paris by mallepost Hours on the way. ...... N. B. The steamers are obliged to lie to in the dark; but during the long days of summer, and in clear moonlight nights, they continue the voyage, which at such favourable seasons is Smyrna, by steam every week, Nine Steam-boats at present run between Vienna and Constantinople. There is no Steam-boat at present from Athens to Corfu, though one is expected shortly to run. The British Post-office Mediterranean Steam-packets go and return once a month from Falmouth to Corfu, touching at Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Malta. A French Steam-boat is dispatched regularly from Marseilles to Malta. There are Steamers besides from Marseilles to Naples, and from Naples to Palermo and Malta, 2 days. once or twice a month. 54 ....... 8 13 6 or 8 Civita Vecchia, ditto Naples....... 2 ... 2 15... Those among the above routes which belong to Southern Germany are described in the Second Volume of the Hand-book. The Swiss routes will be found in the Hand-book for Switzerland. GENEALOGY OF THE PRINCIPAL REIGNING HOUSES IN NORTHERN EUROPE. HOLLAND. William III. King of England, who was also William III. Stadholder of Holland, died in 1701, without issue, the last of the line of princes who had given freedom to Holland. The title of Prince of Orange passed into another branch of the family, and was first borne by Prince Frison of Nassau, Stadtholder of Friesland; m. 1734 to the Princess Anne, daughter of George II., and created Stadtholder of Holland in 1745, under the name of William IV. His grandson, the sixth Stadtholder of the name, is WILLIAM I., the present King, raised to that dignity on the expulsion of the French from Holland, in 1813. In 1815 Belgium was added to his dominions, and the title of King of the Netherlands bestowed on him by the Congress of Vienna: he at the same time exchanged his hereditary dominions in Germany for the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg; b. Aug. 24. 1772, m. Oct. 1. 1791, Wilhelmina, sister of the King of Prussia, d. Oct. 12. 1837; issue, I. William-Frederick-George-Lewis of Nassau, Prince of Orange, b. Dec. 6. 1792, m. Feb. 21. 1816, Anne, sister of the Emperor of Russia; issue, 1. William, b. Feb. 19. 1817; 2. Alexander, b. Aug. 2. 1818; 3. Frederick, b. June 13. 1820; 4. Sophia, b. April 8. 1824. II. Frederick, b. Feb. 28. 1797, m. May 21. 1825, Louisa, third daughter of the King of Prussia. III. Marianne, b. May 19. 1809, m. Sept. 14. 1830, Prince Albert of Prussia. BELGIUM. Belgium, created an independent kingdom by the Revolution of 1830, elected as its sovereign, in 1831, LEOPOLD I., the present King of the Belgians, son of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, inaugurated July 20. 1831, b. Dec. 16. 1790, m. 1st, May 2. 1816, the Princess Charlotte of Wales, d. Nov. 6. 1817, without issue; 2d, Aug. 9. 1832, Louisa, eldest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French; issue, 1. Leopold, b. April 9. 1835; 2. Philip-Eugene, b. Mar. 25. 1837. PRUSSIA. The reigning house of Prussia is a younger branch of the Suabian family of Hohenzollern, who inherited the comparatively humble office of Burggraves, or Stadtholders of the Free City of Nuremberg which they filled until 1415, when Frederick VI. purchased from the needy Emperor Sigismond the Mark of Brandenburg, together with the dignity of Elector. His descendant Frederick-William, 1640-1648, called the Great Elector from his talents and bravery in the field, as well as his wisdom in the council, first raised Prussia to the condition of an independent state, and laid the foundation of its future influence in Europe. His son, Frederick III., upon the strength of his father's merits rather than his own, was raised by the Emperor to kingly rank, under the name of Frederick I., 1688-1713. his son, Frederick II., the Great, his son, 1740-1786. Frederick-William II., b. 1786, nephew of Frederick the Great, d. 1797, succeeded by FREDERICK-WILLIAM III., his son, the present King, b. Aug. 3. 1770, m. 1st, Dec. 14. 1793, Louisa-Augusta, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, d. July 13. 1810; 2d, Nov. 9. 1824, Augusta, daughter of Count Harrach, created Princess of Liegnitz (a Morganatic marriage *). sue by 1st marriage, Is I. Frederic-William, Crown Prince, b. Oct. 15. 1795, m. the Princess Elizabeth, sister of the King of Bavaria. II. William, b. March 22. 1797, *A morganatic, or left-handed marriage, (from a Gothic word, morgjan, to cut off or limit), is one contrasted with a wife, of rank inferior to that of the husband, so that she and her children are cut off from the rights and privileges of succession, both to the rank and property of the husband and father. m. the Princess Augusta of SaxeWeimar; issue, 1. Prince Frederick, b. Oct. 18. 1831. III. Charlotte-Louisa (Alexandrina), b. July 13. 1789, m. Nicholas, Emperor of Russia. IV. Charles, b. June 29. 1801, m. Princess Mary of Saxe-Weimar. V. Alexandrina, b. Feb. 23. 1803, m. Grand Duke of MecklenburgSchwerin. VI. Louisa, b. Feb. 1. 1808, m. Prince Frederick of Orange. VII. Albert, b. Oct. 4 1809, m. Princess Mary-Anne, daughter of the King of Holland. The King's brothers and sisters, 1773, d. 1796, m. Princess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (now Queen of Hanover), leaving issue, 1. Prince Frederick of Prussia, who resides at Dusseldorff and Rheinstein, 2. The Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau. II. The Queen of the Netherlands, d. 1837. III. The Electress of Hesse-Cassel. V. Prince William, Governor of Mayence. HANOVER. The House of Hanover is descended from Henry the Lion, one of the most powerful sovereigns of the 12th him, on the father's side, from century in Europe, and through the Italian D'Estes and Bavarian Guelphs, on the mother's side from kingdom, which comprehended all the Saxon Billungs. Of his vast Saxony and Bavaria, a very small portion fell to his descendants; and the family split, at the end of the 16th century, into the two branches of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Brunswick - Wolfenbuttel (Brunswick). The dignity of Elector was conferred on the house of Lüneburg in 1609; and in 1714 the second Elector, George, was called to the throne of Great Britain, as great-grand- | son of James I., and nearest protestant relation of Queen Anne. His descendants have continued to reign over the two countries (being raised from Elector to King of Hanover in the person of George IV., 1814,) until the death of William IV., 1837, when the crown of Hanover not being heritable by females, it passed to the present King, ERNEST-AUGUSTUS, Duke of Cumberland, fifth son of George III., b. June 5. 1771, m. May 29. 1815, Frederica-Sophia-Caroline, sister of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and widow, first of Prince Louis of Prussia, second of the Prince of Salms-Braunfels; issue, George-Frederick, Crown Prince, b. May 27. 1819. BRUNSWICK. The line of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (mentioned above) is at present represented by WILLIAM, reigning Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, second son of Duke Frederick-William, who fell at Quatre Bras, 1815, and nephew of Caroline, Queen of George IV., was b. April 25. 1806, and succeeded his brother Charles, who was expelled by his subjects, Sept. 28. 1830. HESSE-CASSEL. WILLIAM II., present Elector of Hesse, Grand Duke of Fulda, b. July 28. 1777, succeeded his father, William I., Feb. 27.1821, m. Feb. 13. 1797, the Princess Augusta, sister of the King of Prussia. Issue, 1. Caroline, b. July 29. 1799. 2. Frederick-William, b. Aug. 20. 1802, Electoral Prince, and Regent since 1831, at which time his father retired to Hanau, where, and at Frankfurt, he has since resided. 3. Maria, b. Sept. 6. 1804, Duchess of Saxe Meiningen. SAXONY. In 1485 the possessions of the house of Saxony were divided between the two sons of Frederick the Gentle, Ernest and Albert. The Ernestine, or elder branch, obtained the Electoral dignity and the territory of Thuringia. From this line sprang Frederick the Wise, 1486-1525 (eldest son of Ernest), the promoter of the Reformation, and the protector of Luther, he was succeeded by his brother, John the Steadfast (1525-1532). His son and successor, John-Frederick the Magnanimous (1532-1547), having been defeated and taken prisoner by the Emperor Charles V., in the battle of Mühlberg (1547), was compelled to resign the Electoral dignity to The Albertine, or younger branch, in the person of his cousin, Maurice of Saxony. The Albertine line now became the more powerful, and from it is descended the present regal house of Saxony. The family adopted the Catholic faith in the time of FrederickAugustus I. (1694-1733), in order to obtain the crown of Poland, which it possessed only for a short while. In 1806, after the battle of Jena, the Elector Frederick-Augustus (d. 1827) was created by Napoleon King of Saxony; but after the successes of the Allies was deprived by the Congress of Vienna, 1815, of the larger and more fertile portion of his kingdom, which was transferred to the King of Prussia. FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS, the present King, succeeded his uncle Anthony June 6. 1836, b. May 18. 1797, m. 1st, the Archduchess Caroline of Austria, d. 1832; 2d, Maria, sister of the King of Bavaria. The family of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Weimar are descended from the elder or Albertine branch of the Saxon house, which is besides split into several minor lines. Francis, Duke of Saxe-CoburgSaalfeld, died 1806, leaving issue, I. Juliana, b. 1781, m., under the name of Anna-Feodorowna, the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, from whom she was separated 1820. II. ERNEST, reigning Duke, b. Jan. 2. 1784, m. 1st., a Princess of SaxeAltenberg, from whom he was divorced 1826; 2d, 1832, Mary, daughter of the Duke Alexander of Wür temberg. By his first wife has issue, 1. The Hereditary Prince Ernest, b. June 21. 1818; 2. Albert, b. Aug. 26. 1819. III. Ferdinand, b. Mar. 28. 1785, calls himself Duke of Saxe-CoburgKohary, because he married the daughter and heiress of a Hungarian prince of that name. His eldest son Ferdinand, b. Oct. 29. 1816, m. 1836, Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal. IV. Victoria-Maria-Louisa, Duchess of Kent, b. Aug. 17. 1786, and mother of Victoria, Queen of England. V. Leopold, King of Belgium. SAXE-WEIMAR-EISENACH. The late Grand Duke CharlesAugustus, the friend of Githe and Schiller, who collected a band of talented men around him in his capital, Weimar, d. 1828, leaving two sons, I. CHARLES-FREDERICK, reigning Grand Duke, b. Feb. 2. 1783, m. Aug. 3. 1804, to Maria-Paulowna, third daughter of the Emperor Paul of Russia, and has isue, 1. MarieLouise-Alexandrine, b. Feb. 3. 1808, m. Prince Charles of Prussia; 2. Mary, b. 1811, wife of Prince William of Prussia; 3. The Hereditary Grand Duke Charles-Alexander- Augustus-John, b. June 24. 1818. II. Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Lieutenant-General in the army of the King of the Netherlands, b. May 30. 1792, m., 1816, Ida, second daughter of the late Duke of SaxeMeiningen, and sister of Adelaide, Queen-Dowager of England. NASSAU. WILLIAM-GEORGE-AUGUSTUS-HENRY-BELGICUS, reigning Duke of Nassau-Weilburg (and by the death of Duke Frederick-Augustus without male heirs, in 1816, of Nassau-Usingen), b. June 14. 1792, succeeded his father 1816, m. 1st, June, 1813, Charlotte, daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, d. 1825; 2d, April 23. 1829, Pauline, daughter of Duke Paul of Würtemberg, Issue by 1st marriage, 1. Theresa, b. 1815, m. Prince Peter of Oldenburg. 2. The Hereditary Prince, Adolph, b. July 14. 1817. 3. Maurice, b. 1820. 4. Mary, b. 1825. Issue by the second marriage, 5. Helen, b. 1831. 6. Nicolas, b. 1832. 7. Sophy, b. 1836. |