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escaped the attention of the Grand Duke, and he has on all
occasions endeavoured to remedy them us much as lay in his
power. It cannot, nevertheless, be denied, that all isolated
exertions are unavailing. The Universities are a benefit be-

longing to all Germany, anti thus general measures are neces-
sary and urgent. His Royal Highness therefore readily gives
his assent that the Committee of the Diet which formerly ex-
isted be re-appointed, and he adopts, as a point of course,
that the provisional regulation agreed to by the Diet on Sept.
20, 1019, regarding the Universities, be maintained. The Go-
vernment of the Grand Duke has made it a point, from the
beginning, to check- as much as possible the abuses of the
Press in the Grand Duchy. He has been guided by the con-
viction, that union and tranquillity connot be preserved in the
Confederation, it' each of its members be exposed to attacks
the most audacious, from other States, without being able
to oppose it_ by prompt and energetic measures ; that the

literiiure of German y ought not to alienate the Germans from
one another, and thus ferment germs of dissolution in the
Confederation. On these considerations, and seeing that it
is impossible to pass a definitive law before the 20th of
September, his Royal Highness votes for the preservation of
the provisional law on the Press of September 20, 1819.
Finally, the results now presented of the last inquiry by
the central commission furnish so many proofs of the continua-
tion in Germany of secret societies dangerous to the State,
that his Royal Highness can but vote for the continuance
of the inquiry, which, at all events, is a restraint to the evil
disposed, and may hereafter be employed to extirpate the roots
of the evil.

THE ELECTORATE or HEssE.--Commanded by his Royal
Highness to accede immediately to the proposition of the Pre-
sident, the Minister of the Elector of Hesse, in announcing this

adherence, finds himself, by the development already giv.Cn to
the reasons on which the propositions are founded, free from
any necessity to enter into fresh details in this respect. Nothing
is left for him but to unite in the same sentiments as the mem-

bent who, in voting with him, have acknowledged with end.
tude a new proof, in these propositions, of the cure of the Em.
peror for the welfare of the Germanic Confederation, in order
that these sentiments of gratitude may be expressed in the most
solemn manner in the resolutions to be taken by the •Diet on
this subject.
GRAND DUCHY or llEssE.—His Royal Highness the
Grand Duke acknowledges with gratitude, in the propositions
now made by the President, a fresh proof of the benevolent so-
licitude which the Emperor of Austria has always displayed for
the preservation of peace and order in the Germanic Confedera-
tion. His Royal Highness can see only with satisfaction this
important object brought again under deliberation, at a time
when the existence of associations, having for their object to
overthrow the Confederation, and the Governments which
compose it, cannot be doubted. They 'have not, indeed,
reached a sufficient degree of maturity, to inspire serious alarms
as to the interior security of the Confederation ; but they do
not the less deserve the attention of all the German Governments
in order to oppose to such attempts proper and energetic mea-
sures, while, if these measures are not taken, the boldness of
the authors and accomplices in such schemes would increase
every day, their number would rapidly augment, and. at length
public tranquillity would be exposed to serious danger. Accord-
ing to every thing which has come to the knowledge of his
Royal. Highness on these revolutionary intrigues lately disco-
vered, he has the consolation of presuming, even • though the
reproach of having taken part in them will apply to some of his
subjects, their number has been very inconsiderable. Never-
theless, entertaining the conviction, that measures taken in
common by all the German Governments, and executed in one
uniform manner in all the States of the Confederation, can
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Societies of this nature. The proposition of the President, re-
presented in a complete manner, anti discussed with a perspi-
cuity which leaves nothing to be wished, every thing which in
this respect can be a subject of deliberation. The first point
there mentioned is closely connected with the present state of
the greater part of the Governments, with the tranquillity
and prosperity of the people. The interest of the people
requires that the Monarchical principle he firmly upheld as
well as the interest of Princes, and on it depends the pre.
nervation of the Confederation. In his quality of Member of
the Confederation, and as a Sovereign, his Royal Ilighnessi
considers it one of his most sacred duties to concur in every
thing which in this respect shall be considered useful, on the
part of the Confederation, according to the principles of
its legislation ; and as thesei are sufficient justification of
the president's propktion concerning the Constitution of
States, the close relation of which, with the Monarchical prin-
ciple,
cannot be unknown ; and as the proposition also only
contains regulations already agreed to in the Final Act of the
Ministerial conferences at Vienna, the execution of which be-
longs indubitably to the Diet, his Royal Highness adheres
entirely to it, and in this respect will not refuse what may be
expected of hint. As to what concerns the defects of the Uni-
versities and other establishments for public instruction, .the
Resolution of the Diet taken on September 20, 1819, in execu-i
tion of which the Magistrates of the Grand Duchy have
sits-
pplayed a great deal of zeal, has had such good effects in
the dominions of his Royal Highness, that he can only desire
its continuance, and at the same time, considers the Com-
mittee of the Diet mentioned in the proposition quite proper,
and conformable to the object proposed. As to what concerns
the Press, his Royal Highness's maxims of government before
the Resolution of September 29, 1819, are well known, but the
more he then felt the necessity of several restrictions on the
Liberty of the Press, the less he should now be disposed to do
them away under the present circumstances, because, in this
respect, the state of things has not undergone any essential
change to render the measures then taken now superfluous ;
for, even
with the existing restrictions, the propensity towards
abusing the freedom of the Press, has been visible on several
occasions, and the public mind is not yet sufficiently recovered
from its agitation,so as to leave nothing more to fear from
the unlimited fteedom of the press. Future experience will
p eri
decide at what od the present restrictions may be removed,
or in what manner they may be modified. The utility of the
Central commission of Inquiry at Mayence has been incon-
testably proved. Such an authority can alone furnish the
means for obtaining a coup d'ceil of all the conspiracies di-
rected against the Governments of the Confederation, of the
intimate relations between these Governments, and of the
means employed to preserve them. The same motives which
dictated five years ago the establishment of this Commission
still exist, and its provisional continuance can create no diffi.
culty. The Minister is commanded to have the present decla-
ration inserted in the protocol, and to agree in all points to the
presidial propositions.
DENMARK, FOR HOLSTEIN AND LAUENHITRO.--The
King recognises with gratitude, in the propositions of the hn.
penal Court of Austria just communicated, an additional proof
of the constant solicitude and Indefatigable zeal of the Empe.
ror in securing order and repose among the German States,
the dignity of their Governments, and the welfare of their
people. His Majesty cannot manifest his sentiments in a more
positive manner than by acceding entirely to all the propositions
which have been made.
NETHERLANDS, FOR THE DUCHY OF LUXEMBERG.--
Continually sensible of the sacred obligation imposed on him
by the King, his Master, always to communicate, and to vote
in the bosom of this august assembly in the true federative spi-
rit, as it reigns in his instructions, the Minister of the Grand
Duchy of Luxemburg would fear to make himself responsible
to his master, if he did not eagerly join, particularly on the
present occasion, the unanimous expression of gratitude to-
wards the Imperial Court of Austria, which watches with at.
tention truly great, and a foreseeing solicitude over the general
good of the Confederation ; and if lie did not declare himself
formally and perfectly in accord, as he now 'does, in the name
of his Majesty, with the new and signal proof which has just
been given of this case, and if he did not agree to all the points
of the proposition.
GRAND DUCHIES OF SAXONY.—The Minister of the Grand
Ducal and Ducal Houses of Saxony, finds the propositions of
the President, concerning the Constitutions of States, only re-
new the laws already existing, and he therefore believes himself
authorised to accede to them. He is, however, commanded,
in the name of Saxe Weimar, to make the following decla.
ration, agreeably to the Federative Act, to the 57th article
of the Final Act of May 15, 1820 (Bth June) :=—ln the sense
and spirit of the Constitution given to the Duchy, the Grand
Duke will never permit, -that in the manner of applying
the fundamental law of May 5, 1016, either in its separate
articles or in the whole of its contents, or on the part
of the estate or the authorities of Government, any other
point of view should be adopted than the following
prin-
ciple :—All the sovereign authority remains united in the
Supreme Head of the State, and the Sovereign cannot be
restrained by a constitution of estates to co-operate with
them but in the exercise of some rights already deter.
mined. But the more the limits which result from this
principle for the attributes of the estates have been faithfully
the estates of the Grand Duchy,
and exactly observed by . ,
the less it has been hitherto necessary tratti?s t.
limits
more precisely. As to what concerns the
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protocol: of the Assembly of the Estates, ich thethe y pub.
licity acknowledged by the Constitution, there exists a regula.
constitutionally
tion, which, having been enacted, agrees, on the
one hand, with the relations of the Grand Duchy, and, on the
other, cannot give any reason for uneasiness. As to the prop°.
sition of the Universities and Schools, the Minister has received
no ins
tructions. As the regulation for general how.
l appears a consequence of the par.
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