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FRANCE.

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 13.

INDEMNITIES IN GERMANY.
COTE OF BAVARIA IN THE SITTING OF THE 31ST OF

AUGUST.

His IMPERIAL MAJESTY did not give his fanc-
tinn.to the conchifurn of the Both of Arril ; but in-
vited the Diet, by the Decree of Imperial Corn-
million, of the 26th of June, to come, in prefe-
rence to all other meafures, to a final decifion re•
fpeeting the objets which remain to be fettled by a
particular arrangement, in order to complete the
peace of the Empire, and to co-operate in that
manner for the definitive conclufion of this impor-
tant affair. His Serene and Electoral Highnefs
acknowledges, with the lincereft gratitude, the pa-
ternal fentiments expreffed by the Supreme Head
of the Empire in that declaration, and feels him-
felf impelled, in confequence of his IsrpEitiat. MA.
JE scv's demand, to Rate with his accullomed can-
dour his'opinion, both with refpeet to the princi-
ples and the manner which ought to be adopted in
order to regulate the objets which remain to be
fettled.
The Treaty of Peace concluded at Luneville by
his IMPERIAL MAJESTY in his own name, and in
that of the Empire, and ratified by the Germanic
corps, again confirms by the 6th Article the eel-
lion of the left bank of the Rhine to France, fuch
as it had been fettled at the Congrefs of Raftadt,
but it alto guarantees by the 7th Article, indem-
nities to the Secular Princes for their loffes by that
ceflion, in conformity to the principles folemnly
eftablithed on that fubjeet at the negociations of
Raftadt. According to the notes exchanged at the
Congrefs of peace between the Plenipotentiaries of
the French Republic and the Deputation of the
Empire, thefe principles are—" That the States
of Germany fuffering loffes, than be indemnified
on the right bank ofthe Rhine, and that fuch in-
demnities (hall be effeCtuated by the means of fe-
cularizations in the interior of the Empire."
Thefe two principles having been adopted and
exprefsly confirmed in the fail Treaty of Peace of
Luneville, by the paternal precaution of bis IMPE-
RIAL MAJESTY, are, in virtue of the 7th Article,
confidered as the principal balls recognized and
fantlioned between France, his IMPERIAL MA-
JESTY, and the Germanic body, and fhould, pre-
vioufly to all other confiderations, be exprefsly de-
clared as fuch in the new cow/it/inn which is to be
taken. It will be Rill neceffary to eftablifh fome
precife regulations for the ultimate application of
thefe
It. Relative to the objeft for which an indemnity is to be
given. •
2d. Relative to the mode of indemnification : and,
3d. With rtfpetivo the way of tranfaeting the affairs relative
to the complete adjuitment of Peace, which may be fubmitted
to the deliberations of the Diet.
111, The objets entitled to the indemnities, in
conformity to the dens of the Diet, are deter-
mined by the 7th Millie of the Treaty of Lune-
vale, relative to the fccular Princes who have been
deprived of their poffeffions on the left hank of the
Rhine by the ceffion of that bank.
adly, The indemnities are to be regulated ae•
cording to the loffes, which are to be ellimated by
Ratiftical valuations, which depend upon the extent
of territory, the population and the revenue. The
Rates deprived of their territories are to lay before'
the Diet the accounts and propofitions neceffary to
inftitute more ample invelligations, and to obtain
more precife eflimates. Afterwards fecularizations
will be aligned to each according to their loffes_;
and, for this end, it will be neceffary to eftablifh
the principle that each (hail be indemnified; fo that
his poffeffions upon the right bank loan be round-
ed as much as poffible. Not only jullice towards
thefe Rates folicits the adoption of this principle,
but it is a neceffary meafure, as well for the fafety
of the German Empire, and to prevent a number
of differences, as to facilitate for the future the in-
troduelion of new difpofitions tending to the gene•
ral welfare of the Empire. As the indemnities are
to be effected by means of fecularizations, and con-
fequently the Chapters of the Empire are to form
the mats of indemnities conformably to the Treaty
of Peace with the Empire, it naturally refults that
no new nominations Iliould be made to the lactic-
Rees of the Empire, of any dais, which are vacant,
or may become fo, until the definite conclufion of
the affair of the indemnities ; but that all nomina-
tions he beforehand declared null which may have
taken place, which ought equally to be weighed
in principle, and carried by the faneliJn of his I si-
LRI AL MAJESTY. Relatively to the aelual poiref-
lins of the Ecelcflaltical countries, which will
fel ve as indemnities, it will be neceffary, befides
the ketilarizations, to wait the modification.. and
the more precife conditions which allure their fu•
tore fate.
idly, As the urgency and the nature of this af-
fair, on the prompt conclufion of which depends
the tranquillity and the well-being of the whole
Empire, do nut permit it to be treated in a com-
plicated manner ~:rd fr:bjea to delays, it may be
confided as well as front having regard to anterior
epoc;ii,, to a Committee coolly-fed ola Email num-
ber cf the States of the Empire, which lhall be
ch.irgzti to acknowledge after the rules to be eft.t•
2, the lo!f:s and indemnities of each ; to dc-
tel min? thoce who have a right to thefe 'aft, both
as to qii.iatitv and quality, and afterwards to fob-
rnit to the Diet the tefult cf them to ferve towards
the t , .

Aft•rr the defir.itive arrangement of the affair of
the inalerrinitks, this Committee might alfo be
charged oith pi d'eming to the Diet a Itother re-
pot t ott it:.innt:r in which the elianws to be in-
troduced by the new order I,f things in the cot:'li•
La:ion of the circles and the German Empire, for
the confolidation of the Germanic body, ought to
he accortipldhed ; paying a due regard to the Se-
cular State,, whole etnititutional rights might be
affenzd by dud meafure. An ulterior explatiatirm
is referved a to the nomination of the membc-rs
mho lhail e•mpole this Committee. As to other
TKints, his Jlighnefs adheres to the cite of Bran-
denborgh, and refer s to it, with refpe(f to the prin-
epics and rules Ns are tilelein developzd, in a
s-,ry aiile and Ample Jmniner.