The archbishop of Vienna is the head of the civil, and the archbishop of St. Pölten, of the military clergy. The latter alone has a right to recommend to the emperor’s nomination, persons qualified for military ecclesiastical appointments, such as the chaplaincies of regiments and fortresses. The archbishop and bishops are all members of the metropolitan chapter. On the death of one of their number, the chapter has a right to propose a successor for the nomination of the emperor, who approves or rejects as he thinks proper, without allowing any sort of interference on the part of the pope. Hence several of the sees are at present vacant, as the government has found it convenient to appropriate the large revenues attached to many of them to the exigencies of the state. It would be difficult to state with accuracy the number of Catholics in Austria; but so much is certain, that they compose at least two-thirds of the population of the empire. The Protestants are not numerous, excepting in Bohemia on the frontiers of Saxony. With the exception of Russia and Turkey, no country in Europe contains so many professors of the Greek faith, as the dominions of Austria. Some of these are termed united, as they acknowledge the pope for their supreme head, while others have refused to become thus united with the Catholics. They are chiefly to be met within Galicia, Hungary, Croatia, and Transylvania. The Armenian christians have chosen Galicia in preference for their new abode; but there are some also in Hungary and Transylvania. Almost all of them are engaged in commerce. These people are remarkable for their activity and industry, and such of them as do not make a profession of the arts or trade, pursue agriculture with truly laudable perseverance. Almost all those who have settled in Hungary have adopted the latter: and the pains they have bestowed on a soil naturally excellent, have been rewarded with such abundant crops, that almost all of them have acquired in a short time a competence and even wealth. Since the time of Joseph II. the Protestants, both Lutherans and Calvinists, have enjoyed the free exercise of their religion in the imperial dominions. The number of the former is estimated at about one million and a half, and that of the latter two millions and a half. Bohemia, Hungary, and Moravia are the countries in which they are most numerous. Almost all of them are remarkable for their industry.