Ratisbon, Nov. 19, 1801. Scarcely had the treaty of peace, concluded at Luneville by his imperial majesty with the French republic, been communicated to the diet by an imperial decree, of the 21st of February, in order that it might be speedily ratified in a conclusum, when his imperial majesty invited that assembly by a second imperial decree of the 3d of March, to lay before him, as soon as possible, a resolution upon the mode by which the states of the empire were to cooperate in the particular arrangement which still remained to be made, so much had his imperial majesty at heart in his paternal solicitude that the affairs of the peace of the empire should be entirely terminated with all possible speed; but the mode of the cooperation of the states of the empire in that work, which his majesty afterwards acceded to, and in consequence of which the affair in question was to be treated in the usual forms, the deliberations of the diet soon experienced such powerful and multiplied obstacles, that even the diet resolved afterwards to adopt another mode for the exercise of the right of cooperation of the states of the empire, and to submit to the im

perial sanction that new mode, instead of the complete resolution which his majesty had demanded by the decree of the 26th June last.This decision has been, as is known, carried into execution by means of the conclusum of the diet of the 2d of last month, the principal tenor of which imports, that the cooperation of the states of the empire, in the objects which still remained to be regulated by a particular ar rangement to terminate the work of peace, should take place by means of an extraordinary deputation of the empire; and that, with the formal reservation of the right of concurrence belonging to the prelates and counts of the empire, as well as to the imperial cities, this deputation should be confined to eight members of the college of electors and college of princes, having regard to the equality of religion; that there should be given to the deputies chosen, unlimited powers to conclude with the French government, salva ratificatione Casaris et Imperii, the arrangement that remains to be made, enjoining them, however, formally, to observe scrupulously the restrictive clauses that have already been respectively recognised with the bases of indemnities agreed upon in the negotiations of Rastadt by the two parties. His majesty is convinced, with the diet, (as has been seen by the already mentioned decree of imperial commission of the 26th June,) that the mode of cooperation of the empire by means of an extraordinary deputation is more proper to accelerate the affair that remains to be terminated than the concurrence of the empire, in the usual form of the deliberations of the diet. Guided by the paternal intention of ensuring the

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internal tranquillity of Germany, he approves, in consequence, the conclusum transmitted to him, with the reservation of the prerogatives and attributes, in their whole extent, that belong to him, as well as to the imperial plenipotentiaries, to a deputation of that nature, conformably to the laws, primitive institutions, analogy, and right of nations. In what concerns the necessary ulterior dispositions, relative to the extraordinary deputation of the empire, which has been sanctioned, his majesty will communicate his resolutions on that subject.

Letter of the State and Cabinet Minister, his Excellency Count Cobentzel, to Count Stadion, the Imperial Minister at Berlin.

Vienna, October 14, 1801. ESTERDAY intelligence was received that his royal highness the archduke Anthony was unanimously proclaimed archbishop and elector of the electoral archbishopric of Cologne, by the electoral cathedral chapter of Cologne, in a free, canonical, and electoral assembly.

While your excellency will not fail to make the friendly communication of this event to his Prussian majesty's ministry, your excellency will, at the same time, in the most efficacious manner, repeat those declarations which his majesty the emperor and king caused to be made subsequent to the election of Mun

ster.

Your excellency will assure his Prussian majesty's ministry, that, with respect to the electorate of Cologne, the election of an archduke VOL. XLIII.

may be considered as indifferent; as the natural course of the accomplishing of the indemnities by means of secularization will not be altered from personal consideration, or secondary views. Hence then the court of his Prussian majesty may. rest perfectly convinced, that while the imperial court, from love and regard to the old constitution of Germany, according to its internal conviction, can never forbear insisting on the maintenance of the three spiritual electorates, the personal consideration of the archduke having been elected to be elector of Cologne, cannot have the smallest influence on this conduct of the high imperial court.

On this occasion, your excellency. will also disclose, in confidence, to count Haugwitz, that although the cathedral chapter of Munster earnestly press that his royal highness. the archduke Anthony may repair to Munster and take upon himself the government, yet his imperial majesty, as the head of the house, has not yet given to his royal highness permission to this purpose, but has rather intimated to the cathedral chapter, to continue the government in the mean time, in all respects in the same manner as if the see was vacant.-Sede Impedita.

His royal highness, beyond all doubt, is in all respects entitled to the formal assumption of the government, and might, without contradiction, put himself in possession of this ecclesiastical electorate, which at this moment has as much right to its existence as other ecclesiastical electorates.

It is also not to be denied, that his imperial majesty, in this moderation, which he has shown, could have no other view, than thereby U

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to give a proof that in this respect he has been guided by no personal interest.

Lewis Cobentzel.

Note of Count Haugwitz to Count Stadion.

Berlin, October 26, 1801. The undersigned state and cabinet minister, has informed the king of the communication which count Stadion, minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary of his imperial and royal majesty, was charged to make to him within these few days. It was intended to make known to his majesty, the election of his royal highness the archduke Anthony, as bishop and elector of Cologne, and was accompanied with the declaration, that this election, as well as that of Munster, was to be considered as indifferent, and unconnected with every personal or farther view, and that it could not in the least alter either the natural course of the secularizations, nor the appropriation of the same to the indemnifications. That, as on the one side the emperor, partly from attachment to the constitution of the empire, partly from internal conviction, could not forbear persisting in the maintenance of the three ecclesiastical electorates, the election which had fallen on the archduke Anthony could by no means, or in any manner, have an influence on the conduct of his imperial majesty: that in order to give a proof of this, his majesty has declined the proposition of the cathedral chapter of Munster, inviting the archduke to repair to that bishopric, and to take possession of it; and that he had, at the same time, given the said chap

ter to understand, that they should undertake the government themselves in the mean time, in the same manner as if the see were vacant.

If the elections of Munster and Ahrensberg are to be considered as mere formalities, the king was obliged on his part to pursue those formalities which the then present circumstance pointed out, to preserve the general rights; and with this view his majesty caused the well-known protestation against the Munster election, to be delivered to the states of the empire, which, by anticipation, also concerned. the election of Ahrensberg, in case such should take place.

His majesty does not the less approve the wise resolution of his imperial majesty to postpone the farther steps which one or both of the chapters might wish to adopt with respect to the introduction of the archduke Anthony; and if the business on both sides is thus to remain in uncertainty, the king will, in like manner, abide by the preliminary measures which he has hitherto taken.

But even if his majesty were agreed on the last point with the court of Vienna, yet he could not grant his approbation to the principle of the maintenance of the three ecclesiastical electorates. This principle is in direct contradiction to those which his majesty has at all times expressed in perfectagreement with the French government as one of the contracting powers, and which are founded on the contracts which are now to be put into execution.

In these is to be found the express and essential determination, that the losses of the parties are to be made up by means of seculariza

tions,

1. According to the 7th article of the treaty of Luneville, the hereditary princes who have lost their possessions, either in whole or in part, on the left bank of the Rhine.

2. According to the 5th article of the same treaty, the grand duke of Tuscany, and the house of Orange, in which Prussia and France had ensured a suitable indemnity, by a convention concluded much earlier on the 5th of August, 1796, which incontestibly makes the rights and pretensions of the house of Orange equal to those of Tuscany. From. the obligations contained in these treaties, it follows, that the powers interested, must endeavour to regulate and to liquidate the mass of the real loss, and to bring it into proportion with the objects which are destined to produce an equivalent for the same. As the indemnification for the claimants, pointed out in the above-mentioned treaties, must be complete, so must it be carefully examined beforehand, how far the mass arising, and presenting itself out of the secularizations, is sufficient to indemnify the parties who have sustained losses.

If, after a calculation made, funds sufficient were found to raise or to restore one or more of the ecclesiastical sees, to which the electoral dignity is applicable, the king, far from opposing it, would take measures to support in this the wishes and views of his imperial majesty; but it would be a contradiction in principle at this time, and before the mass of the losses can be weighed against the mass of the objects of indemnification, to decide beforehand, or to preresolve on the main

tenance of the present ecclesiastical electorates.

As the king is accustomed, in all his declarations to the court of Vienna, to be very free, so it is agreeable to him to strengthen anew the principles which he shows in all his transactions, and which he has invariably laid down as the ground of his conduct. His majesty has therefore authorized the undersigned to lay them again before count Stadion in the present note. He fulfils his duty, and repeats to the count the assurance of his high consideration.

(Signed) Haugwitz.

Treaty of Peace between the French Republic and the Emperor of all the Russias.

THE

HE first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, animated with the desire of reestablishing the relation of good understandingwhich subsisted between the two governments before the present war, and to put an end to the evils with which Europe is afflicted, have appointed, for that purpose, for their plenipotentiaries, viz.

The first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, citizen Charles Maurice Talleyrand, minister of foreign affairs, and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, the sieur Arcadi count de Markoff, his privy counsellor, and knight of the order of St. Alexander Nevski, and grand cross of that of St. Vladimir of the first class, who, after the verification and exchange of their full powers, have agreed upon the following ar ticles: