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lay the following submissive request at your illustrious
leet.
" As I do not lay claim to the spirit, the abilities, or the
strewth, which would be inquired, if I should ever ex-
ercise the high dignity to which I may posses: a right by
birth, I most fervently supplicate your Imperial Majesty
to transfer that right to him who would inherit it after me,
and by that act to s-cure the stability of the empire. With
respect to myself, I shall add by this abdication a new
warranty and a further power to that obligation, into which
I entered voluntarily and solemnly on the occasion of the
divorce from my first wife. All the circumstances of my
present situation induce me still more to adopt this mea-
sure, which will prove to the empire and the whole
world the purity of my sentiments.
" May your Imperial Majesty rec. ive my wish with
condescension ; may you determine oar illustrious Mother
to accede to it, and to sanction it by your Imperial appro-
bation. •
" In the circle of a private life I shall constantly endea-
vour to set an example to all your faithful subjects, and to
all who are animated by a love for our dear country.
" With profound respect, Sire,

•
" Your Imperiil Majesty s most loyal sul.ject
said Brother,

(Signed) " CONSTANTINE CESAROWITCIL
"St. Peteraburgh, the 14th Jan. 1622."
SECOND SUPPLEMENT.
ANSWER OF HIS IMPEUTAT MAJESTY THE EMPEROR
ALEICANDF.E.

" Very clear Brother—l have read your letter with all
the attention which it demanded. I have found nothing
in it which caused surprise, as I always knew
.how to
estimate the sublime sentiments of your heart. It has
given me a new proof of your sincere attachment to the
State, and your care for the preservation of undisturbed
tranquillity.
" I have, in conformity with your wish, laid your letter
before our beloved mother. She read it with the same sen-
timents as I dirt, and gratefully acknowledges the noble
motives by which you were guided.
" From the reasons which you state, we have both of us
only to lease you full liberty to follow your firm resolution,
and to pray the Almighty to grant the most benign conse-
quences to such pure sentiments.
•' I remain, for ever, your very affectionate Br9ther,
(Signed) "ALEXANDER.
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) " CONSTANTINE.
" St. Petersburgh, the 2d Feb. 1822."

THIRD SUPPLEMENT.
MANIFESTO OF TITE EMPEROR ALEXANDER.

" We, by the Grace of God, Alexanier the First, Em-
peror and Autocrat of all the Russias, &c. &c.,
" Make known to our fathful subjects, that from the
moment we ascended the Throne of Russia we have
invariably felt, that it was our duty towards Almighty
God, not only to maintain during our reign the happiness
of our dear ceuntry and of our people, Cut also to prepare
anti secure a clear anti exact appointment of our successor,
according to the laws of our Imperial House and rights of
the empire.
" We were not able to appoint him immediately, accord-
ing to the example of our predecessors, under the expecta-
non in which we were, whether it might ,not please
Providence to grant us an heir to the throne in a direct
line. But the more we increase in years, the more tee think
it necessary to hasten in placing our throne in such a state
that it cannot remain vacant for a moment. _ _

" Whilst we were impressed with this anxiety, our dearly
beloved Brother the Cesarowitch and Grand Duke Constan-
tine, in fo!lowing his own inclination, addressed to U 3 the
request of transferring his right to the dignity of the
throne, to which he might hereafter be raised by his birth,
to such person who may be entitled to it in default of him.
He at the same time declared, by' this means, his consent
to the Supplementary Act respecting the succession to the
throne, which was granted by us in the year 1820, and ac-
knowledged by him voluntarily and solemnly,, and gives
new force to it, as far as the same concerns him.

" We are deeply affected by this sacrifice, which our
dearly beloved brother has resolved to make with such great
self-denial, for the confirmation of the hereditary statutes
of our Imperial House, and the unshaken tranquillity of
the Ritssiaii empire.

" After having invoked the assistance of God, and
having duly and maturely considered an object as dear to
our heart as it is important to the State, and finding that
the statutes which related to the order of succession to the
throne do not deprive those who have a right to it of the
power of relinquishing the same, if no difficulty exists with
respect to the line of succession; we have therefore, with
the previous consent of our Illustrious Mother, as well as
the high power of the head of. the Imperial Family, which
came to us by inheritance; and mindful of the power
granted us by God, have commanded as follows :
" In the first place, the voluntary act by which our
elder brother the Cesarowitch and Grand Duke Cowan-
; tine renounced his rights to the Russian throne shall re-
main firm and irrevocable. In order to secure the publicity
of the said Act of Renunciation, it shall be deposited in
the grand cathedral church of Ascension, at Moscow, and
with our three highest authorities, the Holy Synod, the
Senate, and the Directing Senate. . .

" Secondly—With respect to the arrangement, and in
conformity with the exact tenor of the act of succession to
the throne, we acknowledge, as our successor, our second
brother, the Grand Duke Nicholas. In this manner we
reserve to ourselves the pleasing hope, that on the day
when it shall please the King of Kings, according to the
universal law of all mortals, to call us from our temporal
government to eternity, the Chief State Officers of the
Empire (to whom our present and irrevocable will, as also
our present legal appointment, shall, by our order, be corn•
municited in due time), will use all diligence in
swearing the Oath of Allegiance to the hereditary Fmt-
peror whom we have just now appointed to the throne of
the Russian Empire, as well as to the inseparable throne
of the kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Fin-
land.

" 11 ith rcpcct to ourselves, we request all our faithful
subjects will, with the same sentiments of love and afilc..
don which caused us to consider the care for their constant
happiness, as our greatest blessing upon earth, direct their
fervent prayers to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that,
in his infinite mercy, he may receive our souls into his
everlasting Kingdom.
" Done at Tzarskaselo, the 16th August, in the year
of cur Lord 1523, and 23d year of our reign.
(Signed) "ALLXANDER."