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Excerpt from Highlands and Islands of the Adriatic: Including Dalmatia, Croatia, and the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire Metternich system, was the prohibitive duties intro duced by the Emperor Joseph; a system that inflicted, and still inflicts, an annual loss estimated at from eight to ten millions on the Austrian exchequer. Baron Kiibeck, the right-hand man and protege of Prince Metternich, drew up a reform of the system; and who was the obstructor 7 Was it Prince Metternich? Unquestion ably not. It was the narrow-minded Hoflcammer so that the Emperor Joseph, who created the rural bureaucracy to fight the battle of the poor man against the rich, for got to create some machine which might enable an en lightened minister to infuse some of the higher principles of politics and legislation into the Hofltammer; it was, in short, a sort of Gordian knot of red tape, which has been cut, because it could not be loosed. 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.