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RUSSIAN STATE PAPERS.

MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS I.
YIiPQRtAL CORICERPONDIENCE, &C. &C.
The Imperial Russian Field Yager, Ensign
WINIMER, who arrived at I3erlin on the 4th inst.
from St. Petersburgh, brought with him the fol•
lowing important intelligence:—

_
" PETERSBURG/I, DEC. 26.
" Ifirliareas his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke-Constan-
tine has dielared that he will resolutely adhere to his former
abdication of the Imperial Crown, the Grand Duke Nicholas
!).15, to-day, aliended the Throne of the Russian Empire, and
ail the proper,Authorities, and the different divisionsof the
Arm;, have taken the Oath of Fidelity to his Imperial Ma-
jesty. In reference to this important event, the following Im-
p,trial Manifesto has appeared

ANIFI:STO.
" 13y the Orece of Ood, Nicholas 1., Emperor and Auto
crat of All the Itussianx—.

'tension, may you determine our illustrious Mother to accede
to it, and to sanction it by your Imperial approbation.
" In the circle of a private life I shall constantly endeavour
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 ItnporiAl Majesty's most loyal subject and brother;
(Signed) " CONSTATINE CESAROWITCH,
" Petersburgh, the 14th Jan. 11322."

SECOND SUPPLEMENT.

INSWER or MS IMPERIAT. MAJESTY THE EMPEROR

♦LEXANDER.

" Very deer Brother--I have read your letter with all the
attention which it demanded. I have found nothing in it which
caused surprise, as I always know 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 preserva-
tion of undisturbed tranquillity.
" I have, in conformity with your wish, laid your letter be.
fore our beloved Mother. She read it with the same sentiments
as I did, and gratefully acknowledges the noble motives by
which you were guided.
" From the reasons which you state, we have both of us only
to leave you full liberty to follow your firm resolution, and to
pray the Almighty to grant the most benign consequences to
such pure sentiments.
" I remain, for ever, your very affectionate Brother,
(Signed) " ALEXANDER.
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) ‘4 CONSTAN T IN E.
" St. Petersburgh, the 2d Feb. 1022."

" in the grief of our heart, amidst the general pain which'
oppresses us, our Imperial House, and our Beloved Country,
we can only bend before the impenetrable decrees of the Al-
mighty, and we can only seek for strength and consolation with
him. It has pleased him to call before him the Emperor Alex-
ander I. of glorious memory, and we all have lost a Father, a
Ruler, who, during 23 years, was the happiness of Russia

THIRD SUPPLEMENT.
MANIFESTO OF TIRE EMPEROR ALE/ANDER.

" We, by the Grace of God, Alexander the first, Emperor
and Autocrat of all the Russias, &C. &c.
" Make known to our faithful 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 country and of our
people, butalso to prepare and secure a clear and exact appoint-
ment of our Successor, according to the laws of our Imperial

and of us.
" When, on the 27th Nov. the information of. this disastrous
event reached us, we hastened, even In this moment of the most
acute grief, to fulfil a sacred duty, and, lie.tening only to the
dictates of our hearts, we rendered the oath of fidelity to our
elder Brother, the Cesitrowitsch Grand Duke CONSTANTIN/I
as legitimate Heir to the Russian Throne in virtue of primo-
geniture.
" Scarcely had we discharged this sacred duty when we were
apprised by the Senate that there had been deposited in their
hands, on the 15th October, 1823, a letter, with the seal of the
deceased Emperor, and with the superscription in the own
hand-writing of his Imperial MAJESTY : "I'o be preserved
by the Senate until my further commands; in case of my death
however, this packet is to be opened, in an Extraordinary Sit-
'fing, before any other act is proceed in ;" that this most gra-
cious command had been complied with, and that the follow-
documents were contained in the packet:—
" I. A letter of the Cesarowitclr Grand Duke Constantine,
dated 14th January, 1822, addressed to his Majesty the de-
ceased Emperor, by. virtue of which his Imperial Highness
renounces the sucession to the throne, belonging to him by
primogeniture.
" 2. A manifesto, dated Aug. 16,1823, bearing the auto.
graph signature of his Imperial Majesty, whereby his Majesty,
after the ratification of the Deed of Abdication of the Cesare.
witch Grand Duke Constantine, establishes that we, the next
in age, are heir to the Crown, according to the fundamental
laws of the Empire.
" We were further informed that documents of' the same
tenor had been deposited with the directing Senate, with the
Holy Synod, and in the Cathedral Church of the Ascension at
Moscow.
" These informations could not alter our resolution once taken.
We observed in these Documents only a renunciation of his
Imperial Highness during the life of the Emperor, and con-
firmed by the consent of Ills Imperial Majesty ; but we had
neither the wish, nor the right, to consider this abdication,
which when it took place was not proclaimed publicly, and had
not received the power of a law, as irrevocable. We would
not manifest by this our veneration of the first fundamental
Law of our country, and of the unalterable order of the succes-
sion, and faithful to the oath we had taken, we insisted that
the whole Empire should follow our example.
" Under these momentous circumstances it was not our in-
tention to disute the validity of the resolution pronounced by
his Imperial highness, much less was it our intention to bring
ourselves in opposition to the will of the deceased, ' Emperor,
our common father and benefactor, which will always remain
sacred to us: We endeavoured solely to protect the law, regu-
ating the succession to the throne, from every infringement,
o chew tie purity of our sentiments, and not to leave our be-
loved country one single moment in uncertainty respecting its
legitimate Sovereign:
" This resolution, taken with a pure conscience, and before
GO the Almighty, was blessed and, approved by her Majesty
the Empress Maria, our nutch beloved Alother.
" Ileanwile, the mournful account of the decease of his Ma.
jesty had reached Warsaw, direct from Toganrok, on Nov 25,
and consequently two days prior to its being received here.—
..Firm in Ins resolution, the Cesarowitch Grand Duke Constan-
tine confirMed the same on the following day by two Acts,
dated Nov: 26, and commissioned to our beloved brother, the
Grand Duke Michael to carry theta to us. These Acts consist.
ed in—
" 1. A letter to her Majesty the Empress, our much belov-
ed Mother, in which his Imperial Highness renews his former
resolution, supports it by the copy of a rescript of the deceas-
ed Emperor, dated the 2d of February, 1922' and serving as
an answer to the Act of. Abdication,' and finally renounces
solemnly all his claims to the throne, and recognised the
same as transferred to us and our successors, according to the
appointments contained in the fundamental Law of the Suc-
cession. ,
" 2. A letter directed to us, wherein his Imperial Highness,
, anew declares his former resolution, gives us the title of lm.
penal Majesty, and receives for himself, only, the former one
by Cesarowitch, and calls himself the most faithful of our sub-
jects.
" however decisive these acts were, and although they prov-
ed to ocular demonstration that the resolution aids Imperial
blightiess was irrevocably fixed, yet our own sentiments, and
the situation of affairs; induced us 'to defer the publication of
the aforesaid Acts, until the will of his Imperial Highness with
reference to the oath taken by us and the whole empire should
be (lectured.
" Whereas we have now also received on the part of his
Imperial Highness this last declaration of his will, we commu-
nicate the same to our subjects, accompanying it by the follow-
ing documents:—
, "- 1. The letter of his Imperial Highness the Cesarowitch
Grand Duke Constantine to the deceased Emperor Alexander.
2. The answer of his Imperial Majesty.
" 3. The manifesto of the deceased Emperor,_ which con-
Rime the Abdication of his Imperial' Highness, and recognises
us as successor to the throne. -
4. The letter of his Imperial Highness to her Majesty the
Empress, our much beloved mother.
6. The letter of his Imperial Ilig,liness directed to us.
" In conformity with all these documents, and with all the
fundamental law of the Empire regarding e order of succes-
sion—full of veneration for the impenetrable decrees of a gni&
ing Providence—we now ascend the throne of our ancestors,
the throne- of the Empire of all the -Russia* its well as the
thrones inseparable therefrom—that of the kingdom of Poland,
and the Grand Duchy of Finland, and command, I. That the
oath of allegiance be rendered to us and to the heir of our
throne, the Grand Duke Alexander, Imperial Highness, our
much beloved Son:
"-2. That the period of our ascension to the throne, be sal.
culated front the 19th November, 1825.
" Finally, we call upon all our faithful subjects_ to join us
in fervent prayers to the Ahnighty, that he will grant us
strength to bear the. burthen he has, in his Divine Provi-
dance, laid upon us, that he may preserve in us the firm re-
solution to live solely for our beloved country and to tread in
the footsteps of the Monarch whom we now deplore.
" May our reign be nothing but a continuation of his, and
way we fulfil all the wishes for Russia's happiness, which ani-
whose sacred memory shall preserve in us the en-
dueldatveoduirlinanltl the hope, to merit the blessing of Heaven, and the
love of our people.
" Done in our Imperial Residence, St. Petersburgh, the
12th Deceniker" in the year of Salvation, 1025, and
First of our Reign."
(Signed)

House, and rights of the Empire—.
" We were not able to appoint him immediately, according
to the example of our predecessors, under the expectation in
which we were, whether it might not please Providence to grant
us an heir to the throne in a direct ling. But the more we in.

crease In years, the more we think it necessary to hasten in
placing our throne in such a state that it cannot remain vacant

fora iiioment.

" Whilst we were impressed with this anxiety, our dearly
beloved Brother the Cesarowitch and Grand Duke Constan-

tine, in following his own inclination, addressed to us the re-
quest 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. Heat 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 acknowledged by him voluntarily
and solemnly, and give new force to it as for as the same con-
cerns 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 hereditory statutes of our
Imperial House, and the unshaken tranquillity of the Russian
Empire.
" A fter having invoked the assistance of God, and having
duly and maturely considered an object as dear to our heart as
it is impartant to the etate, and finding that the statutes which
related to the order or 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 hue of succes-
sion, we have, therefore, with the previous consent of our
lustrious 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 commanied as
follows :

" ALEXANDER.''

" NICHOLAUS."

FOURTH SUPPLEMENT.

" In the &Si place, the voluntary act, by which our elder
brother the Cesarowitch and Grand Duke Constantine, re.
flounced his rights to the Russian throne, shall remain 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, anti in confor.
mity 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 alao our present legal appointment, shall, by our order,
be communicated in due time,) will use all diligence in swear-
ing the Oath of Allegiance to the hereditary Emperor, whom
we have just now appointed to the throne of the Russian Em.
pire, as well as to the inseparable Throne of the kingdom of
Polund and the Grand Duchy of Finland.
" With respect to ourselves, we request all our faithful sub.
jects will, with the same sentiments of love and affection
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 Wiour Jesus Christ, that, in his mfini'
mercy, he may receive our souls into his everlasting Kingdot,.
" Done at Tzsrsko.selo, the 10th Auguit, in' the year of our
Lord 1023, and 2&i year of our reign.
(Signed)

LETTER YROJI HIS IMPERIAL. lIIGIINESS TfiL CESARO-
WITSCII GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE, TO HELL MA-
JESTY THE EMPUESS-MOTIIER.
" MOST GRACIOUS PUIXCESS—.DEARERT
With the greatest anguish of heart, I received last evening, at
seven o'clock, from baron Von Dietiseh, Chief of the General
Staff of his Imperial Majesty, and from the Adjutant-General
Prince Volkonsy, the accompanying original intelligence.and act
of the decease of our adored Ruler, my benefactor the Emperor
Alexander. Whilst I participate with your Imperial Majesty in
the grief which succumbs us,l pray to the Creator that he may,
in his Almighty mercifulness, keep our strength, and give us
power to support the affliction which he has imposed upon us.
" The situation in which this misfortune places me, makes
it my duty to pour into the bosom of your Imperial Majesty
my real sentiments candidly and openly upon this important
subject.
" Your Imperial Majesty knows, that, following my own
inclination, I requested of the Emperor Alexander of glo.
rious memory, the permission to renounce the right of succes-
sion to the throne, and that, in consequence thereof, I receiv-
ed an Imperial Rescript, dated 2d February, 1822, an attested
copy of which is enclosed, whereby the Emperor communicat-
'ed his gracious consent to the request, with the observation,
that your Imperial Majesty had also given your consent, which
you have verbally confirmed to me. The commands of the de-
ceased Emperor were, moreover, to the effect, that the said
gracious rescript should remain in my hands under the seal of
secrecy, until the death of his illajesty.
" Accustomed from my infancy conscientiously to fulfil the
will of my deceased father, as well as the late Emperor, and
that of your Imperial Majesty, and still maintaining the limits
of this principle, I chnsider.it as my duty to resign my right of
succession to the throne to his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Nicholas and his heirs, in conformity to the appoint-
ment in the Imperial Ukaae respecting the order of succession
in the Imperial Family.
" ith the same candour I make it my duty to declare,
that without extending my wishes any further, I shall deem
myself happy ,that, if after more than 30 years service de-
voted to my father. and brother, the late Emperors, of glorious
memory, I may be permitted to dedicate them for the future
to his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas with the same high
eiteene, with the suite fervent zeal, and the same unlimited
sub Mission, tshich have animated me on all occasions, and will
do so to- the end of my days.
" flaying thus expressed my real and irrevocable opinion, I
throw myself at the feet of your Imperial Majesty, whilst I
most submissively implore you to deign a gracious reception of
the present letter, and graciously to grant that the contents may
be made known to all whom it may concern, in order that it may
be carried into effect, and that, thereby., the will of his Ma-
jesty the Etnperor, my deceased Lord and Benefactor, as well
as the consent of your Imperial Majesty, may be put in full
force and effect.
" I take the liberty of submitting to you herewith a copy of
the letter which I have, at the same time, addressed to WS
Majesty the Emperor Nicholas.
" I remain, with profound regard,
" Most Gracious Princess and clearest Mother,
" Your Imperial Majesty's most obedient son,
(Signed) " CONSTANTINE."
" Warsaw, Nov. 211, 1826."

FIRST SUPPLEMENT.
LETTER OP HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS THE CESAROUITCII
"AND RULE cowsTANTLNE TO THE EMPEROR ALEX-
ANDER THE rrits.r•
" Mont Illustrious, &c. &c. —Encouraged by,: the manifold
proofs of affection of your Imperial Majesty towards me, I ven.
tore once wore to elmtiii them, and to lay the following submis-
sive request at, your illustrious feet.
"As Ido not lay claim to the spirit, the abilities, or the .
streagth which would be required, if I should ever exert se
the high dignity to which I may possess a right by birth, I " FIFTH SUPPLEMENT.
most fervently supplicate your Imperial Majesty to transfer LETTER rnost Ins IMPERIAL MIOHNESS THE CESAR°.
that right to him who would inherit it after ineould by that Tyrrell (MASH DUKE CONSTAN'TINE TO HIS MAJESTY
act to secure the stability Qf the Empire. With respect IV l'H IE TOME
--10 R. NICHOLAS.
myself, I shall add by thin abdication, a new warranty and a " Dearest Brother—With indiscribsble anguish of heart 1
further power to that obligation, into which I entered vo- received last night at one o'clock the painful intelligence of the
luntarily and solemnly on the occasion. of the divorce from decease of our adored master, my benefactor, the Emperor
my first wife. All the circumstances of my present situa. Alexander. Whilst I hasten to express to you the feelings
thin, induce me still more to adopt this measure, which with which the melancholy.Mlsfortune we have sustained fills
will prove to the Empire and the whole world the purity of me, I make it my duty to inform you, that I have at the same
my sentimentr, time herewith sent a letter to her Majesty the Empress, our
" May your Imperial Majesty receive my wish with condo- much belOed mother, wherein I announce to her, that in con-