Excerpt from Life and Times of Stein, Vol. 3 of 4: Or Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age A little chafing of this kind may have been really beneficial. For their journey over the mountains was very cold. In fact, so much snow fell that a day later they would have found it impos sible to pass, but they reached Trautenau in safety, and from this place Stein wrote to two of the Austrian Ministers, Count Stadion, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Count o'donnell of Tyrconuel, Minister for Finance. He asked that the Emperor would grant him an asylum in his State, where he preposed to live in retirement and devote himself to the education of his children. On the l6th he reached Prag; here soon received on couraging unofficial answers to his application, which were fol lowed ou January 24th by an official communication from Stadion, expressing the Emperor's pleasure at receiving within his States a Minister equally distinguished for the services he had rendered to his Sovereign and for the misfortunes they had drawn upon him, but at the same time the Emperor's desire that he would choose Briinn. The capital of Moravia, for his residence rather than Prag, which was full of Prussian refugees, generally esti mable but often injudicious persons, who would not allow him to enjoy the quiet he sought. Stadion added that he personally was glad to have Stein within a short journey of Vienna, rather than so far off as he would be at Prag. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.