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TR ANC!, THE stcoNn, EMPEROIt OF TILE ROMANS,
&C. &C. TO THE ELECTORS" PRI•CE.I, ASV
STATES OT IHE vertex, 'MET IN TH.. CiLNIER•L
lIILT.
The extraordinary Deputation of the Empire, no-
minated for the execution of the sth and tith articles
of the l'reaty of Peace of Luneville, having termi-
nated the work confided to it ; and the Fledors,
Princes, end States of the Gernian Enipire, having,
by their Conclusum of the 2 tth of March, demanded
its confirmation, his Majesty the Emperor, in his
paternal solicitude for the maintenance of the peace
and tranquillity of Germany, will not delay to give,
according to the measure of his duties, the legal
sanEtion to that Aft, so important by its nature and
in its consequences.
The objea to which his attention is, at this mo-
ment of decision, direded, is, to conciliate. for as
much as is possible, the accomplishment of the obli-
gations which the Emperor and the Empire have
iniposed upon themselves, on the one hand, with
the preservation of the Germanic Constitution.--
And on the other hand, with the regard which his
Majesty has had for the propositions of the two
high mediating Powers, and for the wishes and sa-
tisfadion of the States of the Empire.
This objet is the very same to which all the steps
and efforts of his Majesty the Emperor were di-
reeted at the convocation of the Deputation of the
Empire, and in all its aeti and negotiations. In
pursuance of that vier, his Imperial Majesty has,
during the cruirse of those negotiations, supported
the plan of indemnite proposed. Ly the mediating
Powers,and adopted by the majority. of vnices in
the Deputation, as far as was allowed by the pre-
cise tenor of the articles of the treaty of peace, and
by the limits of the plenary powers of the Deputa-
tion, which had for their objeO to carry into effea
those articles, and to maintain the Constitution in
all points in which it was compatible with them.
The Convention concluded at Paris on the Vth
of December, last year, proves with what modera-
tion and what regard fir the mediating Powers,
and for the States of the Empite, having an interest
in the a:rair, his Imperial Majesty laboured to fa-
cilitate the removal of the difficulties which had
arisen, even when those difficulties arose from the
legitimate interests of his own family. In that
Convention, his Imperial Majesty voluntarily ex-
tended the obligations of the treaty of Luneville,
aid recleccd, as much as possible, the full indem-
e;ty due to one of the Princes of his own House.
His Imperial Nlalesty has shewn the same dispo-
sitions, and has 7iven the same facilities in regard
to other propositions, which have latterly been
added to the phut of indemnities, though they did
r.ot emanate out of the grounds of the indemnifi-
cation, nor accord with the interior Constitution of
the Germanic Body.
Upon the same considerations and respells, his
Imperial Majesty also determined to give his adhe-
rence in the above-mentioned Convention, to the
Coed/sun of the Dt pueition on the 23d of November
last, still formally reserving all the rights compati.
Lie with the. plan of indemnities which belong to
him, whether as supreme head of the empire, or as
sovereign of his own hereditary dominions. Not
having
.bad, in this latter quality, any share in the
indemnities for the losses which he suffered in the
war, his Majesty cannot be subjeEled to the restric-
tions attached to that plan, farther than is required
by the necessity for the execution of the general basis
of indernnifica; ion.
Finally, as since the conclusion of the Convention
of December 26, there have been made various ad-
ditions and changes on the principal conclusion of the
23d of November, and as the Deputation came to a
newrow/anon on he 25th of February, of which the
Diet, by it• decision, demands the approbation un-
der certain reservations formally expressed ; his
Imperial Majesty having maturely weighed all the
circumstances stated, and being guidel by a sense
of his dearest duties, has resolved to give his sanc-
tion, as supreme head, to the above-mentioned cc:l-
- of the Empire, upon the conditions follow-
The Cnnventi9a concluded at Paris on the 2fith
of Dec. last, and communicated to the Deputation,
shall be ina:ntnined in full validity and obligatory
force, agrecahly to the literal tenor of its articles,
and particularly in what regards the reservations
ccnuined in Article 4th.
The rights of His .Malesty, as Emperor and
Supreme Head of the. Empire, to which those reser-
vations refer, shall be maintained inviolate, both
during the ceecution of the present decision, and in
all future cases.
'The confirmation of the fundamental laws of the
Empire, mentioned in the Conclusum of the Diet of
the 24th March, and particularly of the Treaty of
l'eace of Westphalia, and of the subsequent Treaties,
so far as they have not been fonnally changed by
the Treaty of Luneville, and the present decision of
the I)iet, as also the reservation proposed in this de-
ci,ion, for the maintenance of the Germanic Con-
stitution, in all points in which it has not been for-
mally changed, and such as that constitution has
hitherto existed in re ;pea to the Eledors, Princes,
and States of the Empire, comprehending the Teu-
tonic and Equestrian Orders. All these confirma-
lions and reservations shall be maintained and car-
tied into circa.
The difficulty which his Imperial Majesty chewed
on the occasion of the votes virile:- in the College of
Princes, produced by the first propositions of the
Deputation, not having been in any manner re-
moved by the propositions subsequent ; his Majesty
sees himself obliged by the duties which he has
sworn to fulfil for the maintenance of the Germanic
Constitution, and the protettion of the Catholic reli-
gion, to suspend, for the present, his ratification
upon that point, and to reserve himself to demand,
lay a Decree of Commission, which will forthwith
be passed, that there shall be a further conclusion of
the empire upon this subjea, in order that, by suit-
able propositions, it may be provided that (the pro.
testing party !ravine already obtained a majority so
decisive, in the College of the Eledors, and in that
of the free towns) the antient relations betwsen the
two religions shall not be so change,l in the College
of the Piinces, as to occasion a disproportion that
may, entirely derange the parity of votes.
Relatiee, also, to the points in the last Conclution
of the DePutation; which ought to be submitted to
etber eran.inatipn and deliberation, such as those
mentioned at the end of se&ions 2 and 39, his Ma-
jesty and the Em.pire reserve to themselves to inter-
fere at a proper time.
Hls Imperial Majesty, giving, under these reser-

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