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DECLARATION.

The First Consul of the French Republic, ani-
mated with the desire of contributing to the cnnso.
lidatinn of the repose and tranquillity of the Ger-
man Empire, has thought that no means were more
calculated to obtain that effca of his solicitude,
than those of fixing, by a plan of Indemnity, adapt.
ed, as far as circumstanc, s would permit to the re- -
spective interests, an arrangement proper to pro
duce this salutary effec't ; and a concurrence of
• views having been established upon this_ subject
between the First Consul of the Republic and His
Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, he has au-
thorised the Minister for Foreign - Affairs, to
concert with the Miniver Plenipotentiary of His
Imperial Majesty of Russia, the means best cal-
culated to apply the principles adopted for these
Indemnities, to the different demands of the Par..

ties interested. The result of this work having
obtained his approbation, he has ordered the under_
signed to make it known to the Diet of the Empire
by the present Declaration ; a measure to which the
First Consul of the Republic, as well as His Impe-
rial. Majesty, have been impelled by the following
considerations :

The Seventh Article of the Treaty of Luneville,
having stipulated that the Hereditary Princes;
whose Possessions are comprised in the Cession
made to the French Republic of the Countries
situated on the Left Bank of the Rhine, should he
indemnified, it lii;s been agreed that,,,eonformably
to what had been decided upon at the ,Cong.ress ot
Rastadt, this Indemnity should be. effeded by,rpvans
of Secularization ; but though.' perfealy agreed
upon the basis of the Indemnity,' the States in.
retested have remained so opposite in views with
resped to the distribution, that it has hitherto
appeared to be impossible to proceed to the ex.
ecution of the before-mentioned Article. ot the
Treaty of Lunevilie.

And-though the Diet of the Empire has named a
special Commission to dired its attention to this
important business,. we see, by the delays which its
assembling meets with, what obstacles the opposi-
tion of interest, and the jealousy of pretensions
place to the making the regulation of the Indemni-
ties the spontaneous ad of the Germanic Body.
It is this that has induced the First Consul and
the Emperor of Russia to think that it became two
Powers perfectly disinterested to afford their media-
tion, and to offer to the deliberations of the Im-
perial Diet a general plan of Indemnity, drawn up:
from the cakulations of the greatest impartiality,
and in which the attention has been direCted both
to compensate the losses recognised, and to pre.
serve between the principal Houses. in Germany
the balance that subsisted before the War.

In consequence, after having examined with the
most scrupulous care all the Memorials, both upon
the value of the losses, and upon the demand of In-
demnities presented by the Parties interested, it has
been agreed to propose, that the Indemnities shall
be distributed in the following manner
To the Archduke, Grand Duke—For Tuscany
and its dependencies, the Archbishopric of Saltz-
burgh, the Provostship of Bertolsgaden, the Bishop-
ric of Trent, the Bishopric of Brixen, the part of
the Bishopric of PaSsau, situated beyond, the Iltz,
and the Inn on the side of Au,stria, except the
suburbs of Passau, with a radius:Of 560 to ises ; the
Abbeys, Chapters and Convents situa,te4,lll the
abovernentioiteci Dioceses.
•
The above Principalities 'shall be possessed by
the Archduke upon the conditions, engagements, and
relations founded upon existing Treaties; the said
principalities shall 'be taken out of the Circle'of Ba-
varia, and incorporated in the Circle of Austria, and
their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiaions, both Metropolitan
And Diocesan, shall be also separated by the limits

of the twa eireet ; Muhldoit Shall be united to 13-
varia, and its equivalent in revenue shall be 'taken
fom thoSe, of Freisingen.
To the c4-41,2-vaet Duke of Modena, fur the 1\,10..
dene%e.and Dependencies; the Brisgaw and the or-
ttnau,
To
.the Elelor Palatine of Bavaria; for the Duchy
o7Deux-Potits, the Duchy of Jailers, the Nlatinate
of the Rhine, the•Marquisate. of BergenriPzoom, the
Signory of Ravensteiqkia others situate in Bel-
gium and Aleace ; the Bishoprics of Passau, with
tle reservation of the part of the Archduke ; of
Wurzbourg, with the reservations hereinafter-Men-
tioned ; of Bamberg; of Aughsted, of Freisingen,
ald of Augsbourg ;. the Provostship of Kempten ;
the Imperial Cities of Rothenbourg, Weissembourg,
Windsheim,. Schweinfoit; Gochsheim, Sennefelt,
Alithousen, Kempten„ K idf beuren; Memmingen,
Einkelsbuhl, Nordlingen,Ulm, Bossfingen; Btichorn,
Waugen, Leutkirch, Ravensbourg, and Alschatisen ;
the Abbeys of Saint Ulric, Irsen, Weugen, Snoflin.
gen, Elchingen, Ursberg, Rochenhourg, Welten.
hausen, Ottobeuren, and. Kaisersheim.
To the King of PrusSia, for the Duchy of Cleves,
upon the left bank of the Rhine, and of Gueldres ;
the Principality of Mars, the Territories sur-
rounded by Sevenaer, Huissen„ and Mahlbourg, and
the Tolls of the Rhine and of the Meuse ; the
flshopric of Hildesheim and that of Paderborn, the
territory of Erfort and Untergleichen, Eichifeld,
and the Mentz part of Trefort, the part of the
Bishopric of Munster, situate on the right of the line
drawn from Olphen, by Munster to Tecklenbourg,
comprising within it the two Cities of Olphen and
Munster ; as also the right bank of the Ems as far
as • Lingen ; the Imperial Cities of Mulhausen,
Northausen, and Goslar ; the Abbeys of Herforden-3
Quediinbourg, Eden, Essen'and Werden.
To the Princes of Nassau ; that is to say, Nas-
sau Usingen ; for the Principality of Saarbruck,
the two-thirds of the County of Saarwerden, 'the
Seignory of Ostweiler and that of Lahr in the
Ortenau ; the remainder of the Eledorate of
Mentz on the right of the Mein, with the reser-
vation of the grand Bailiiwick of Aschaffenhourg,
and that between the Mein, the County of Darms-
tadt, and the Country of Erbach ; Caub, and the
remainder of the Electorate. of Cologne, properly
called, with the reservation. of the. County of Alt_
weld, the OtinVents of Seligenstadt and.Bleiden-
stadt, the Cottrityof Sayn Alten_Kirchen, after the
death of the Nlargravc orAnspach, the villages of
Soden and StStki:zbAelio. - •
Nassau Wenkitirg-For the third of Saarwarden
and the Seignory of Kircheiro-Polauden ; the re-
mainder of the Eledorate of Treves, with the
Abbey of Arnstein, and that of Marienstadt.
Nassau Dillenbonrg For indemnity for the
Stadtholderate and territories in Holland and Bel-
gium ; the Bishoprics of Fulda and Convey ; the
City. of Dortmund, the Abbeys and Chaptert situate
in these territories,' with a charge upon him to
satisfy claims subsisting and previously acknotv_
ledged by France upon certain successions conneded
with the majority of Nassau Dillenbourg, during
the course of the last century ; the Abbey of,Wein-
garten and those of Kappel to the country of Lippe,
of Kappenbourg, to the countries of Munster- and
De;kerchen.
To the Mt ugrave of B idel—For his part of the
County of Sponheim, and the territories and. Seig-
niories in the Luxembourg, Alsace, &c. the Bishop_
tic of Constance, the remainder of the Bishopric of
Sires, Basle, and Strasburg, the Bailli wicks Pa-
laine of Ladenbourg, Bretten, and. Heidelberg,
v.ith the Cities of Heidelberg, and Manheim, the
Seigniory of Lalar, when the Prince of Nassau shall
he put into possession of the County of Alten-Kir_
den, the remainder of the County of Lichtenhurg,
u ton the right of the Rhine, the Imperial Cities of
d'Offenbourg, Zell, Haynersbach, Gengenbach, Üb_
erlingen, Biberach, Pfulendorf, and Wimpfen ; the
Abbayes d'Schwaizach, Frauenalb, Aller-Heiligen,
Lichtenthal„.Gengenbach; Ettenheim-Munster, Pe-
tethausen, and Salmansweiller.

To the Duke of Witterriberg—For the Princira-
lily of Mnnibeleard, and his Possessions in Alsace,
and Franche„q)mte ; the Provostship of Ellwangen,
the Abbey 'Of tWiffolten, the Imperial Cities of
Weil, Reutlingen, Eslitwen, Rothweal, Giengen,
Aulenhall, Gcmeindt, andbHailbronn.
To the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel—For St. Goar
and Rheinfels, and as provision for his charge of
the Indemnity of Hesse Rothenbourg ; the Mentz
Territories situate within Amenebourg and Fritz_
lar, with their Dependencies, and the Village of
Holzhatizen.

To the Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt for the
whole of the County of Lichtenberg, and its De-
pendencies ; the Palatine Bailliwicks of Lindenfels
and Olzberg, and the remainder of the BailliWick
of Oppenheiin, the Dutchy of Westphalia, with the
reservation of the Indemnity- of the Prince of Wit-
genstein, the Mentz Bailliwicks of cernsheitn,
Bensheim, Hoppenheim, the remainder of the Bishop-
ric of Worms, the City of Friedberg.
.To the Prince of Hohenloe-Bartenstein ; to the
Caunt.of Luc wenbaupt ; to the Heirs of the Baron
of Dietrich for the allodial parts of the. County of
Lichtenberg ; that is to say, to Hohenloe for Ober-
brOhn, the 'Bailliwick of Yaxtberg,' end the Por-
tions of Mentz and Wutzbburg, to the Bailliwick'
of Knufelshaw ; to the others for,Rauschenbourg,
Niderbronn, Reichsolen, Src. the Abbey of Rollen-
•Munster. To the same Count of Loewenhaupt,,
and to the Count of Hillesheim for Reipoltx:.Kir-
chen, the Heclig-Kruenthal.
To the Princes and Counts of Loewanstein—Tor
the County of WirmbOurg, the Seigniories of Saar-
tenech, andotller Territories in the Counties united
to France; • the part of Wurtzburg, as far aF, the
Counties of Rhineck, and Werthein, on the right
of the Mein, the Abbey of Bronnback.
To the Prince of Linange The Mentz. Bailli-
wicks of IV.l:,itt6b6t, AmOtbach, Bischofsheim,
IConigshofen, and all the parts of Mentz,
comprised betheif 'the 7 'May n, the • Tauber, the
Neckar, and the Cotinty of Erbach, the parcels of
Wurtzhprg, upon the left of the Tauber, the Palatine
Bailliwicks of Boxburg, of Mosbaeh, the Abbey'of
Amorback, and the Provostship of-Combourg, with
territorial superiority.
To the Count of_Linange Guntersblum•—Tho
Mentz Bailliwick, or Kelicry of Billigheim.

• TO the. COUni of Linmn-c.)-1-Teide.shciai
Ment.l.- Baillitvick. or Kellen: of Neydoan;
To the Count of Linang-Westerbourgithe eider
branch—The Convent ofSchonthal, upon the-Yaxte;
witli.:Terril Superiority the younger breitich,
the Provostship of Wimpfen.
To the Princes of Salm-Sahn, and Salin-lcirbcurg;
to the Rhinegraves, to the Plinces. and,Cdunts
Sziltn-Reif?rsheid, the remainder 6f the tipper
gishoprie of Munster. --
To the Prince of Wie4Atinkel—Fli the Cotinry
of Creange, the County of Aitwied, with the re..
servation of the Bailliwicks of Linz .t 'd
To the Duke of Aretnberg.; to the Gaunt de la
Marry, to the Prince de Ligne—For, the. Priecipa-
;ity of Aremljerg, the pou'Aies of Saffenberg,
Schleyden, and Fagno•les.; the County of Ruckling_
hausen; with the Bailliwick of Dalmen, as far as
the ,Country of Monster .•
To the Prince and Counts of Solm)—For Rohr
bach, Hirchsfeld; the Convents of Ainsbourg, and
of IlbenstadC. • ,
To the Prince of Wilgenste3n—F,.r NeuMayen;
&c. the Abbey of Graffschafft, the Distria of
Zuschenau, and the Forest of Heilenbc;-gerstreit;
as far as the Duchy of Westphalia.
To the Cotint of Wartemberg—For Wartem:
berg, the Kellery: of Neeke-Steinaek, that of
Erenberg, and the Farm of Wimpfen, dependant
upon Worms and Spires.
TO the Prince of Stolberg—Por the County of
Rocheforte; the Convents of Engelthal and Rciken.
berg. . . -
To the Prince of Isenberg—The part of the
Chapter of Jacdbsberg as far as the village of
Gemsheini.•
To the. Prince of Totir-TaxiS—For. indernnity
of revenue of Imperial posts in the ceded provinces
and domiiins in Belgium,. the Abbey of Buchans,
with the city, those of IVlarelithal and Nernheirn,
the Bailliwiek of Ostrach; dependant upon Salmari
sweiler.

To the Count of Sickingen—For the County of
Landsthul, &c. the Abbeys of Ochsenhausen and of
Munehroth:
To the Count oiLeyen—Foi Blieseastel, &c. the
Abbey's of Sehous.ienried; 'Goutenzell, Heybaelt;
Bamdt, and Bouxheim.
To the Prince of Brezemheith—The Abbey of
Lindatt with the City. . .
To the Countess of Colloredo—For Daschtlial
the Abbeys of Sainte Croix de FiJnawerth.
To du: Countess of Sternberg,—For Ilandersheid,
Blankenheim, the Abbeys of Weissenau and larty,
with the City. •
To the Prince of Dietrichstein—For the Seigni-
ory of de Tr asp, which, will he abandoned to the
Grisons, the Seigniory of Neu-Ravensbotitg.
To the Counts of Westphalia, of Basienheirn—
For 011bruck, of Sinzendorff; for RLineck, of
Straesberg; for Kerpen, of Ostein ; fir Mi:len-
donek, of Quadt ; for Wickerade, of Plettenbera
for Wittem, of Metternich. ; fur Vv'ennebourg,
of Aspreniont ; for Reckheim, of To'iriog ; for •
Gronsleld, of Nessalrade ;. for Welri, &c. the lower
Bishopric-of Munster.
To the Grand Prior of Moita-LLFor tie Coturnan-
deries on the left of the R.bine ; the Abbey of
Blaise, with the County of Bondorf and Dependen-
cies ; the Abbeys of Saint Truperr, ,of Schultern, of
St, Pieire, and of Tenebach
The First Consul of the French Republic, and
His Majesty the Emperor, of Russia, irfter having
priposed to regulate thus the demal;dable indemnities
of the Hereditary Princes, have acknowledged that
it was at once possi'Ale ,and fit to 'preserve, in the
first College of the Empire; an Ecclesiastical Elee.
tor.

They propose, in consequence, thlt, the Arch..
Chancellor of the Empire should be transferred
the See. Ratisbon, with the Abbeys of &int
Eineran, Ober 'Munster, and Heider Munster, keep_
irg of his old possessions the Grand 13ailliwick of
Aschafrenbourg, on the right of the Mayik. and that
there should be united to it besides, a sufficient
number of mediate Abbeys, so as to Make Up to
him with said-lands, an annual revenue of a
florins.

And as the best means to consolidate the Ger-
.
manic Body is to place in the first College the Princes
of the greatest influence of the Empire, it is pro-
posed that the electoral title should he granted to
the Margrave of Baden, to the Duke of Wirtem-
' ' berg, and to the Landgrave of Hesse-CiNsel.
Moreover, as the King of England, in his quality of
Elector of Hanover, has raised pretensions to Hildes.
beim, Corwey, and Hoexter, and as it would be of
interest that-he should desist from his pretensions,
it is proposed that the Bishoprick of Osnaburgh,
which now.. belongs alternately- to the Electoral
House of Brunswick, should devolve to him in Per_
petuity, upon the following conditions
-• First, That the King of -England, Elector of
Hanover, shall renounce all his rights and preten.
sions to Hildesheirn, Convey, and Hoexter.
Secondir, Thai lie shall likewise give up to the
Cities of fiarniiurgh and Bremen, the Rights and Pro-
perties which he exercises and possesses in the.said
Cities, and within the extent of their Territory:
Thirdly. That .he shall cede the Bailliwick of
•Wildchauseh to the. Mike of Oldenbourg, and his
rights to the eventual succession of the County of
Sayn, Alteukirchett .to the Prince of Nassau-
Usingen. s_
In consideration of the Cession of the Bailliwiek
of Wildliatrsen, to the Duke of Oldenbourg, and
thesSecularization.that shall be made for his advan.
cage of the-BiShopric, and of the Grand Chapter of
Lubeck; the toll of Elsfleet shall be suppressed, and
shall not be,te-established under any pretence -what_
ever, and ',the .Rights and .Properties of the mid Bi-
shopric And Chap•er in the City of Lubeck shall
be united to the Domain of the said City.
The- Pitkositions Made with relation to the In-
demniti6;'.)ead to .sey.eral general conS4ierations,
which ou4lit to occupy the attention of the Diet,
and on which they, Will not fail to 'mike the ne„,.
cessary deciSions. :It appears then—
First, That the Ecclesiastical' Property of the
Grand Chapters and their Dignitaries, ought to be
•incorporated With the Domains of,the Bishoprics,
and pass with the Bishoprics to the Prikes to whom
they are allotted.

Secondly, That the property of the Chapters,
Abbies, and Consents, as well of men as of women,

Mediate and immed;ate, which has not been formally
disposed. of in the present propositions, shoula he
applied to complete the Indemnity of the States and
Hereditary Memhers of the Empire, if it should be
found that what is already allotted is insufficient, and
saving the Sovereignty, which remains always to
the Tmitorial Princes, to the endowing of new
Cathedrals, which are to be preserved or establish-
ed, as well as for the support of the Bishops .and
their Chapters, and other expences of public
worship, and to the Pensions of the suppressed

Clergy.
- Thirdly, that the Property- and Revenues be-
lo gig to HOspirals, Zahriques, Universities, Col.
if gee, anti other pious foundations, as also those of
the Communes of one of the two Banks of the
Rhine, sittkate on the other Bank, should he placed
at tie disposal of the respeaive Governments.
Four:tiy, that the Lands and ProPerty assigned
,to, kite States of the Empire to replace their posses-
sion's on the Left... Bank 'of the Rhine, should remain
subjed to the payment of the Drbtstof the said
tutees,
,as well personal as thOse appertaining to
r ancient possessions. -
itthly, That all the Tolls of the Rhine ought
to be received, without the power of re-establish.
ment, tm,ler any denomination whatever, saving the
Du;ies of Customs.

Sixthly, That all the Fiefs held of Feudal Courts,
established heretofore on the left Bank of the Rhine,
and situax-on the right Bank, shuuld be henceforth
held immediately of the Emperor and the Empire.
Seventhly, That the Princes of Nassau Usingen,
NassauWeilbnrg, Salto-Salm, Saim Kirburg, Lin-
ard Aremberg, should be maintained or in-
troduced in the College of Princes; each with a
Vac annexed to the. Possessions which. they re-
ceive in indemnity for their former immediate Pos-
sessions ; that the. Votes of the iintnediate.Counts of
the Envire should be in like manner transferred to
the Lands, which they receive in Compensation, and
that the Ecclesiasiical Votes should be exercised by
- the Princes and Counts, who, by virtue of the
Treaty of Lunevilicy, are in' possession of the Ca-
pitals.
Eighthly, that the College of Cities ought to
remain composed of the free and Imperial Cities of
Lubec, Hamburg, Bremen, Wetzlar, Frankfort,
Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Ratisbon, and that the
means ought to be provided, ip the event of future
Wars in the Empire, that the said Cities shall not
be compelled, to take any part, and that their
Neutrality should .be assured by the Empire, and
also tnat it should be recognized by the other Bel-
ligerent Powers.
Ninthly, that the secularization of the Convents
of Recluse Women ought not to he effetted, bet
- with the consent of the Diocesan Bishop; but the
Convents of Men should be at . the disposition of
the •Territorial Princes, who may suppress or pre-
serve them, at their pleasure.
Such is the whole of the arrangements and con.
siderations which the .undersigned is ordered to pre-
sent to. the Imperial Diet; and on which he thinks
it his duty to call for its most prompt and most
serious delibyratiier, declaring to it, in the .name
of his Government, that the interest of Germany,
the consolidation of .the Peace, and the general
tranquillity of Europe, exad that all that .concerns
the regulation of the Indemnities must be termi-
nated in the space of .two months.
(Signed) CH. MAu. TALLEYRAND.
Paris, August, i Boz.

AUGUST 23.
ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO.

EXTRACT FROM THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF SAINT

DOMINGO.

. Head Quarters at the Cape,
Jun( 22d. 1g02..
In the name of the French G6veritment,
The General in Chief, Captain General, decrees as