[Born in Bohemia, 1766. Still living.]
Has been a soldier, and in active service, for upwards of seventy years.
He took part in the great struggle against Napoleon. In 1809,
distinguished himself at Agram, and in the battles of 1813, 1814, and
1815, won fresh laurels. In 1822, appointed Commander-General of the
Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. His last great service for Austria was after
the Revolution of 1848, when he opposed and defeated the vacillating
attempts made by Charles Albert of Sardinia, on behalf of Italian
liberty. When it is said that Radetzky is a brave soldier, an able
general, a loyal subject, and, as many aver, a courteous gentleman, his
claims to respect are enumerated. He is rigid and severe, if not cruel,
as he is certainly regardless of all human considerations that presume
to interpose between him and the duty which he owes as a soldier to his
king.
[By Rauch. Considered to be a very exact likeness.]
PRELATES AND THEOLOGIANS.