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NEW KINGDOM OF WESTPHALL4.

PROCLAMATION.
CASSEL, DEC. 17.—We Jerome Napoleon, by the
grace of God and the Constitution, King of West-
phalia, French Prince, &c. to our good and faithful
subjects, and Inhabitants of our kingdom of West-
phalia, greeting :
Weatplialians, Thyme Paovintracz has pointed this are in or-
der to re-unite your scattered provinces under one august institu-
tion, together with neighbouring families, though strangers to each
other.
I come to occupy this Throne, prepared by victory, raised by
the assent of the greatest Powers of Europe, founded on a title
no less sacred, by your real interest.
Too long has your country suffered from the pretensions of fa-
milies and the intrigues of Cabinets : you were exposed to all the
calamities of wars, and you were excluded from all the benefits of
peace. Some of your towns only reaped the barren honour of an-
nexing their names to Treaties, in which nothing was overlooked
but the well being of the people who inhabited them.
How widely different are the results of the wars stirred up
against the august head of my House! It is for nations that Na-
poleon has conquered; and each of the Treaties he has concluded,
is a step farther towards the end proposed by his mighty genius,
of giving to entire nations a political existence, governments and
laws dictated by wisdom, the establishment to each of them of a
country, and the dereliction hereafter of none in that deplorable
nullity, in which they were equally unable either to steer clear of
war, and avail themselves of peace.
Westphalians !—Such was the issue of thebattles of Marengo, of
Austerlitz, of Jena ; such now is for you the result of the me-
morable Treaty of Tilsit. On that day you obtained the first of
blessings, a country—Far be now removed from your recollection
those scattered dominations, the last result of the feudal system,
which prepared a master for each city—these different interests
are now to form but one—your master now is the law—your
protector, the Monarch, who is to cause it to berespected ; hence•
forth yon shall have no other.
Westphalians, you have got a Constitution adapted to yarn-
manners and to your interest ; it is the fruit of the meditations of
a great man, and of the experience of a g*it nation : its princi-
ples are in unison with the present state of the civilization of
Europe, and are big with prospects of improvement, which will
tar overbalance the sacrifices which this new order of things may
impose upon some of you. You must, therefore, attach yourselves
to it with confidence, since upon it rests your liberty and your
prosperity.
In ascending the Throne, I contracted the obligation of making
you happy, and I wMbe faithful to it. The equality of the modes
of religion shall be maintained, property assured and guaranteed.
Thus shall there be established between me and my people an
alliance of wishes and of interests, that shall deverchange- West-
phalians, your Sovereign henceforward relies on your fidelity and•
inviolable attachment.

Given at our Royal Palace of Cassel, the 15th December,
1807, and the first of our Reign,
(Signed) ICRObit NAPOLZON.

AMERICL.