folemnly infulted the memory of the late King, by erecting a monument to the memory of his execrable affaffin. That her Majefty the Emprefs was neither ignorant of the motive nor the object of thofe treaties. That it was notorious that the Regent had recently received from the French a fum of money to be employed in armaments. and that he was now in full negotiation with them for a treaty of alliance, the principal ftipulations of which are directed againft Ruffia; so that her Majefty the Empress had every reafon to expect an approaching rupture on the part of Sweden, unless the King's coming of age, (which, happily for the repose of that kingdom and of the north, was an event not far diftant,) fhould put a ftop to it, and thereby avoid this lamentable extremity.

Tenor of the Letters of Convocation addreffed by the King of Pruffia, as Duke of Magdebourg, and of the Duke of Brunswick, as Co-Director of the Circle of Lower Saxony, to the different States defined to enjoy the Advantages of the Neutrality. We, by the Grace of God, Frederic William, King of Pruffia, &c. Charles William, Duke of Brunswick, &c.

THE apprehenfion of a speedy opening of a new campaign with France, and the new dangers to which Germany will be expofed by the chance of a war that has already been fo fatal to her, have determined us, the King, in confequence of our folicitude and patriotic attachment, and, in confequence of the pacific relations which we maintain with France, to diftribute as much as poffible to our co-eftates of the north, the ineftimable blefling of repofe and fecurity

from the troubles and misfortunes of war; that is to fay, as far as thefe ftates will on their part accord with our intentions, which are of general utility. To this end negotiations have already been entered into with the French government, relative to a new line of neutrality, and in order to be able with the more efficacy to affure that neutrality, and to afford protection and fafety to the ftates comprifed within it, we, the King, are ready to march a confiderable army; and we, the Duke, have alfo taken a refolution to reinforce that army with our troops, the Electoral Court of Brunswick Lunenburg having also manifested the fame intentions. These combined troops being therefore to protect the neutrality of the north of Germany, it is as juft as it is abfolutely indifpenfable, that they fhould be provided and provifioned by the ftates which fhall enjoy this advantage, and that each, individually, should haften in proportion to its means, to procure them the neceffary provifions. But this object requires on account of the urgency of circumftances, the moft speedy difpofitions.

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means for attaining this end is by the convocation of a common and extraordinary affembly of all the Upper States of the Circles of Lower Saxony, with the States of the Lower Rhine and of Weftphalia, as well as of the other States that fhall be comprised in the line of neutrality, in order that we may be able to deliberate upon this fubject, and to regulate the diftribution of the maintenance of the troops upon an equitable footing, proportioned to the faculties of each ftate; for on the fpeedy furnishing of the objects neceflary for this

maintenance will alone depend the maintenance of the common fafety of the north of Germany.

Those, therefore, whofe territory is comprifed in the faid line of neutrality, and which, confequently, will enjoy the benefit of this protection, being principally implicated in this cale, we have, in our quality of Prince and Director of the Circle of Lower Saxony, addreffed to them conjointly the prefent Letter of Convocation, in order to unite them to affemble, by their deputies, furnished with the neceffary inftructions on the zoth of the month of June, in the town of Hildefhein. We have no doubt that they acknowledge, in its full extent, the urgency of the cafe, and of the actual conjunctions, as well as of the importance it is to procure to the north of Germany fecurity and repofe; and that in confequence they will adhere and contribute every thing that can attain the common end, fufficiently in time to avoid being furprised by danger.

We, the King, fhall depute to the common affembly of the States, our intimate Counsellor Von Dohm, directorial minifter to the Circle of the Lower Rhine and Weftphalia, and plenipotentiary to the Electoral court of Cologne, furnished with neceffary powers; and we entreat, very amicably, this affembly to give from this time faith and confidence to all that he may propofe on our part, upon the subject of the affairs in quefiion. April 22. ROYAL PRUSSIAN EDICT. Frederick William, by the Grace of God, &c.

WE have fignified to the ambaffador of the French republic, Caillard, by a note from our ca

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binet miniftry, that we will permit fuch national Frenchmen, who refide in our dominions as our temporary subjects, (Subditi temporarii) and who have real right to the protection of the French nation, and with to preferve those rights, to get their names infcribed in a regifter which will be opened for that purpofe by the faid ambaffador, but in fuch a manner, that all thofe fubjects fhall, the fame as before, remain our temporary fubjects, (Subditi temporarii) that they likewife fhall fubmit to our laws, ordinances, and jurifdiction, and not make the leaft pretentions to any immunities granted by the law of nations only to ambaffadors, and the perfons actually belonging to embaílies.

We have further given orders to inform the faid Caillard, that the national Frenchmen, qualified as above, are at liberty to wear the French national cockade in our dominions, but the wearing of the faid cockade is hereby rigidly forbidden to all other perfons. It therefore refults from thefe premifes:

1. That the wearing of the cockade fhall be confined to Frenchmen of the afore-mentioned defcription, together with the ambaffador, and the perfons belonging to the embaffy.

2. That national Frenchmen fhall all be entitled to have their names registered, the regis tering to relate only to their connection with France, and to leave them fubject, as before, to our laws, ordinances, and jurifdiction, as our temporary fubjects.

3. That all perfons belonging to the French colonies eftablished in our dominions; farther, all Frenchmen in our fervice, by oath of allegiance

Berlin, 16 July.

Declaration of the King of Pruffia, put against the Gates of the City of Auremburg, July 5.

HIS majefty the king of Pruffia, our moft gracious Lord, makes known by this public notice to all magifterial perfons, burghers and fubjects, and moft gracioutly declares, that in taking poffeflion, by virtue of the judgments of the Aulic council of the empire, given in the years 1583 and 1587, refpecting his territorial fovereignty, as far as the gates of the Imperial city of Nuremburg-all private property fhall remain inviolate: no perfon be oppofed in the exercife of his well-acquired rights and privileges, but that he rather thall be protected therein by his Majefty; and every poffeffion thall quietly remain in the enjoyment of all territorial and feudal impofts and duties.

His Majefty will only exercise the rights of fovereignty to him belonging, and grant farther to the inhabitants of the fuburbs of Nureraburg, his fovereign affurance, that they and thofe who belong to them, thall be exempt from all military duty and levy.

In other refpects, every one is hereby cautioned to demean himfelf quietly and calmly, and to thew the more respect to the military, as they will obferve the beft difcipline on their part, and avoid every excefs.

By his majesty's most gracious and fpecial command.

HARDENBERG.

Anfpach, July 3d, 1796.

Nuremberg, Auguft 16. Submission of the Imperial City of Nuremberg, to the King of Pruffia.

OUR magiftrates have, under the prefent circumftances, applied to the Pruffian minifter of ftate, Baron Von Hardenberg, teftifying to his excellency the general with of the citizens to live in future under the beneficent laws of his Pruffian majefty. His excellency did not hesitate to intercede for us with the French commander in chief, general Jourdan, to obtain. a fixed contribution in lieu of all requifitions, which has been granted accordingly until the pleasure of the French Directory fhall be known. In other refpects, Baron Von Hardenberg made answer to our deputies, that it was beneath the dignity of his fovereign to take advantage of our prefent fituation, that his majefty would defer making known to us his real fentiments till we fhall be fully at liberty to announce our wishes according to the forms of our prefent conftitution. Declaration delivered to the Magif

trates of Nuremberg on the 29th if September, 1796, by the Pruffian Minifter, Baron Von Hardenberg, relative to the Propofal of its being united with the King's Dominions. THE underfigned has the honour in the name of the king, his moft gracious mafter, to declare to the most worthipful the magiftrates and burghers of the city of Nuremberg, that the proof of confidence and attachment which it gave to his majefty, by the voluntary offer of fubmitting to his fceptre, made in fo folemn and decided a manner, has been received by his majefty

with true pleasure and grateful approbation, and will be efteemed in its full value; but that his majefty, according to the fituation of matters, cannot as yet refolve himfelf to accept of that voluntary fubmiffion,and to ratify the annexed agreement of fubjection and exemption, but that his majefty will nevertheless find fufficent motives in that unequivocal mark of the confidential attachment of the city, to make it experience, by preference, his favour and benevolence, and is already prepared to do every thing in his power to promote the welfare and fafety of the city; while his majefty, after a farther developement of circumstances and events, will also never have any objection to anfwer as much as poffible to the farther wishes of the city.

The faid minifter delivered a fimilar declaration to the cities of Weiffenberg and Winsheim.

Refeript, published by Order of the King of Pruffia, refpecting the Pruffian Territories on the left Bank of the Rhine.

Frederick William. WE having been informed that an opinion has been propagated through a part of our ftate of Weftphalia, fituated on the left bank of the Rhine, to wit, the provinces of Cleves, Meurs, and Gueldres, in the actual poffeffion of the French troops, that fufficient remonftrances and proteftations had not been made on our part against the various innovations and oppreffions which the French commiffaries and agents exercife over our faithful fubjects; we have therefore thought it good to make this public declaration, by means of our regency, jointly with our

chamber of war and of territory; and we do publicly declare, that we have never ceased, nor fhall we ever cease, to intereft ourselves in behalf of our faid fubjects, by the intervention of our envoy to the French republic; and that it is far from our intention to depart from the bafis of the treaty of Bafle respecting the civil or financial adminiftration of those countries.

In concluding the treaty, by which the war between our ftate and the French republic was put an end to, it was never our intention to grant them more than a mere military poffeffion of our provinces on the left fide of the Khine, till peace fhould be concluded with the emperor: and this intention, which has been taken as a bafis in the negotiation, is fufficiently manifeft by the tenor of the 5th article, which exprefsly declares, "that the troops of the republic fhall occupy these countries belonging to us.

The difference between provinces conquered from an enemy, and those which belong to a power in alliance, and which have been merely conceded for a temporary military occupation, is fufficiently evident, and it is obvious that they ought not to be treated in the fame

manner.

It is therefore impoffible for us to believe that the French government, confidering the amicable ties fubfifting between us and it, will fill oppofe fuch evident reafoning. It cannot fail to conceive, that neither fequeftration nor confifcation of the goods of the clergy, nor the projected fale of woods, nor the enormous contribution of three millions impofed

on the country between the Meuse and the Rhine, which would entirely ruin the country, can take place with any regard to appearance of justice.

It has already in effect given our envoy at Paris the moft pofitive affurance, that the measures taken with respect to the clergy fhould be put an end to, and that the ecclefiaftics fhould remain in quiet enjoyment of their goods and revenues: we therefore conftantly expect the revocation of the order for the fale of woods, and, in general, a renunciation of all thofe deftru&tive innovations relative to our dominions.

We fhall not by any means recognize as valid the fale of woods, which has already taken place, to our great aftonithment; and we are pofitively determined to have recourfe to the purchasers for reftitution in kind, or for the value at which the property fold thall be eftimated by our agents, and for the damages which fhall refult from the wafte committed on thefe woods. In thofe cafes where the purchafers cannot be found, we thall exercise our severity on all thofe who are employed by these last for cutting and carrying wood. We, in confequence, exhort our faithful fubjects in the faid provinces to remain affured of our lafting and efficacious protection, and to wait with confidence for the return of that ancient order of things fo highly to be defired.

At Wefel in our chamber of war and territory, 29th December, 1796, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty.

BARON DE STEIN, First President. Given at Emmerick, in our regency, the 29th December,

Treaty of Peace between the Duke of Wurtemberg and the French republic.

THE French republic and bis ferene highness the duke of Wurtemberg and Teck, equally animated with defire of terminating the war in which they have been engaged, and for renewing that intercourfe of commerce and of good neighbourhood which must be reciprocally advantageous to them both, have appointed the undernamed plenipotentiaries; the directory, in the name of the French republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter of external rela-. tions; and his ferene highness the duke of Wurtemberg and Teck, baron Charles Woopwart, minifter of ftate and prefident of the chamber of finances, and Abel, counsellor of legitlation, who, after having refpectively interchanged their full powers, agreed on the following articles:

ART. 1. There thall be peace, amity, and good understanding, between the French republic and his ferene highnefs the reigning duke of Wurtemberg and Teck: confequently all hoftilities thall cease between the contracting powers from the date of the prefent treaty.

2. The duke of Wurtemberg revokes all adherence, confent, and acceffion, open or fecret, given by him to the armed coalition against the French republic, or any treaty of alliance, offenfive or defenfive, which he may have contracted with it. In future he fhall withhold from the powers at war with the republic any contingent or