The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-06 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

SWITZERLANI), JULY 23. In the sixth sitting
of the Diet, the committee—appointed In examine
the measures to be adopted relative to the Press
and to Foreigners, presented a circuMstantial
yeportiwhich is to be immediately communicated
to all the Cantonal GoVernments. If, on the
one hand, the Committee found, in the circum-
stances of the times, sufficient motives to adopt
prudent and .general measures.of police on these
on the other hand,'
ttlwiec us'ilthatiteictrtnt'jt - erlvpircetsio7,l; that none of the
latious fixed 14; the Federal Compact should
be violated, or the sovereign rights of
,the States'
endangered ; that on this aecount. a Resolu-
tion of 'the Diet would not be suitable, but,
that a 'pressing invitation might be the Most.ad-
visahle. It accordingly recommended:such a one,,
to the effect that, with respect 'to the abuse of
the presi, necessary vigorous. and satisfactory
measures be adopted' by all
.the States, in
order, that, in newspapers, journal's, pamphlets,
and all kinds of periodical publications, every
thing easy be avoided, in treating of foreign,
affairs, Winch may be contrary io the respect due
to Foreign Powers, or give them' just grounds
for complaint ; and that regard be had not only
to the punishment of such transgressions, but
above all to the prevention. of them. With re-
gard to the snp6rintoodento of I°-
reigners, it recommends that measures Lie.taken
to prevent fUgitives from entering or residing
in Switzerland who. have left their country in

consequence of their crimes or their disturbing
public tranquillity, and are pursued on that ac-
coult ;land also to prevent the residence of such
persons as, during a regularly authorized abode in
Switzerland, shall abuse it, to carry on dangerous
intrigues against the hiwful Government of a
,friendly Foreign power, or to trouble internal
tranquillity; that the entrance of foreigners shall
depend On their
possessing -valid certificates from
their recognized local authorities;
,and in the
cases of those whose Governments have Ministers
accredited to the Confederation, the certificates
to be recognizeil by those Ministers. This prof
posal was unanimously approved, and the few
Deputies who reserved the ratifications of their
Governments, expect to receive it.WithOla delay.
FRANKFORT, JULY 27.--The Report of sortie
of the latter Sittings of the" Diet having been ne-

'cessarily cartailed, when first given, on account
of the press of other matter, we now return to
them, to mention some interesting particulars.—
In the 20th Sitting the Report of the Committee
was read on the petition of several Prelates, and
Members
.of the Equestrian Order in Holstein,
upon which the Minister President made the
following observations :
"A small part of the Prelates, and of the Equestrian Order
in Holstein, has applied to the Diet; and represented how pain-
ful their situation is, since they could not either be under the
ancient Constitution of Holstein, nor securely expect a nevi
Constitution. The Petitioners do not complain to the Diet, nor
do they expect any derision from it, but they have taken the
liberty:te represent their situation, that the Diet, without pre-
judice to the rights of the Petitioners, may interpose between
them and their Prince, in order that conformably to Article 66
the'Final Act, their ancient Constitution may be preserved,
or, asthey are themselves convinced, that it is not adapted to
the present times, that they may have a new one, in which re-
gard shall be had to their ancient rights. The Committee of Pe-.
titions has proposed to ask of the Danish Government a decla-
ration on this subjeet. His Danish Majesty has anticipti.ed
'this proposal, by declaring through his Minister that-the ancient
Constitution of Holstein not beirg in force, the appeal of the
Petitioners to the 66th Article could not be valid ; but that his
Majesty, to fulfil 'exactly the 13th Article of the Act of the
Confederation,;would'give a Constitution to the Duchy of Hol-
stein, which, conformably to Art. 55 of the Final Act, shall
have regard to ancient rights, and be adapted to the actual state
of things.
" Since by Art. 56 of the Final Act, at Vienna, it has been
left to the Sovereign Princes to regulate the Constitutions of
their States, in an affair concerning the internal relations of the
country, paying due regard to ancient and legally existing
rights, as well as to present circumstances; and as his majesty
gives a formal declaration in this respect, it appears to me
natural that this Royal Declaration be communicited to the
petitioners, to make them easy, and that they be invited to wait
for this Constitution with the confidence which the frank decla-
ration of his Majesty ought to give to his faithful subjects, as-
suring than, 'at the same time, clod. the Diet, confining itself
within the sphere of its functions, will not fail to take care, ac:
cording to Art. 65, of the Final Act, that this engagement be
fulfilled. • - • •
!," Such, in this case, is the final vote of my Court. 'There
is one point more on which I think it necessary to declare
myielf.
• Count tie Ecust proposes that his Majesty the King of
Denmark be required to grant a Constitution to the States of
Holstein within a certain fixed time, and M. de Wangenheim
proposes to limit this time to a certain number of months.
" His Majesty the Emperor will never think it tit that this
Assembly should fix a time to the Sovereign Princes of the
Confederation for giving Constitutions .to their Statis. His
Imperial Majesty has the most powerful confidence not only in
the. King of Denmark, but in all the high Members of the
Confederation, that they will faithfully fulfil the obligations
which they have t`ontmacti as such; and his Majesty appre.
ciates the prudence and the paternal care with which those af-
fairs have been prepared in the States a the Confederation.—
If it were as easy to give Constitutions as some modern writers
fancy" then those Statesmen whom the Princes of Germany
have entrusted with entire confidence with this great work,
would Merit reproach for their delays. But the instructive ex-
anniles which the history of the age Offers us, should certainly
nit he lost upon us, Every . day we see Constitutions givetr,
and we see them disappear with the same promptitude. We
see nations greedily catch at these Constitutions as the ideal of
the greatest happiness on earth, and we afterwards see them
feeling real satisfaction when, by their own exertions, or by
foreign aid, they have delivered themselves from the constitu-
tion which a perverse-hand has obliged them to adopt.
" It may doubtless be objected' 'with •truth,that the epheme-
fetid, l Constitutions,pahle
work
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the happiness of the people, but the gratification of the ambi-
tion of die Chiefs of those parties.
". But it Is precisely in order that the Constitutions which
the States of the Confederation are to enjoy, according to Arti-
cle 13 of the Federal Act, may really form the happiness of the
subjects, that the great problem which the German Princes
have engaged to solve is, to have regard to so many different
interests which must influence this affair, and tp remove the
numerous difficulties that it offers.
" The considerate German, having regard to the prudent
manner in which his Sovereign maturely weighs every thing,
will not distrust the purity of the views of his Government,
and the faithful German, grateful for these paternal cares,
which embrace all interests, will be still more attached to his
Prince."
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the vacation, to come to a resolution. To this
All the Ministers agreed.