Excerpt from Vienna and the Viennese One had, to be sure, the satisfaction of knowing that all the foreign ambassadors were subjected to a super vision if anything more severe and irritating. On one occasion a certain English ambassador, who was some thing of a wag, aware that all his letters passed through the cabinet noir, conceived the idea of making a very slight alteration in his seal. The change passed unobserved, and his letters continued to reach their destination bearing the old seal. Encountering M. De Metternich at a reception one day, he said to him care lessly, Oh, bv the way, Prince, you might mention to your people that we have altered our seal at the Em bassy; thev seem not to have noticed it. Dances! Muttered the Prince, between his teeth, and marched off without. Another word. 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.