Star.
London, England, 1806-08-15 00:00:00

TWENTY GUINEAS REWARD.

PUILIC OFFICE, NOW.STILAST, AUGUST 15. Ito&
WHEREAS a CLERGYMAN left his
Lodgings at a wry arty ►our this Morning, to an ettreshely
odeeehely *ate or Wed, and without giving any amount where
he was plot; his Mende who are earecollogly &kneed for Ma
May, hereby ear a Reward et TWENTY GUINEAS to any
pulls who will fetus idea, end give immediate infennadan to
Mr. Stalked, Chide Cork at the above Oliee. Co that be may be
ralond to their protedlloo and airs.
He la a tail but Mars, about Az Feet three Indies in Height,
go Yon M Age, Hair rather light mid log upon the Forehead,
wean Powder, has rather large Lye, ead • very seekashon WA,
and had ea a bleak Coat, %Mow, ad Breeches, with Half
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GERMANY:

STATE PAPER.

This day M. Becher, Charge d'Affaires of France,
remitted to the Diet the following Note :
0 Ratltbon, Argun t, i1t06."
" The Underfigned, Charge d'Affaires of his Ma.
jelly the Emperor of the French and King of Italy,
st the General Diet of the Germanic Empire,, has re.
ultra milers from his Mojefly to make the following
declarations :
ss Their Majeilses the Kings of Bavaria and Wir.
umbers the Sovereign Princes of Ratiftion. of Ba.
den, or ilia DarmAadt, of Natal, and the other
pincipalFeleces of the Sooth and Weft of Germany,
lath Milestite refolutioe to form among themfelves
• Onielbsieration, which places them in fafety from
sit the othertainties piths future, and they have tested
to be States of His Empire.
ss The Atuation in which the Treaty of Freiburg
plained'ilithßiy the Courts allied to France, and inch-
teddy is Frisess whom they furround, and who are
their neillthogra, being incompatible with the condi-
tion of.:tate of, the Empire, it became neceffary
kw dads Comte, and for the Princes, to arrange on
a nowgith the ty*em of their relations, and to caufe
to dlleppeat 0 ofillency which would have been
a - iuce of agitation, of inquietude, and
dealer.
hat sae, France, fo armada* interefted in
the peace of the South of Germany, and
mho woe doubt, that the moment when the
askiNt
Amid drip enured her troops to repels the Rhine,
Nonni an inimitable confequence of relations con.
• maim se aseertaia, ill.ekarted and ill underAood,
yodel have 'tried to new danger the report of na-
=tad agsl*, perhaps, lighted up a war upon the
t 3 `cited, befides, to promote the welfare ,
of bet Allies, and to enable them to enjoy all the ad-
vantages which the treaty of Piefburg fecured to
Ahem, and which file had guaranteed, France could
oily foe in the Confederation which they have form.
oda sward amfequence and n:cefary completion of
that treaty.
" For along time, facceffve changes, which have
ions on augmenting from age to age, had reduced
die Germanic Coaltitution to be only a Widow of it.
Coif. Time had changed all the relations of grandeur
and of Arength which originally exiled among the
Umbers of the Confederation, and between each of
them, and the whole of which they made a part.—
The Diet bad cenfed to have a will that belonged to
Well: The &names of the Supreme Tributuds mold
am be pat is execution. Every thing atteled an en-
feeblement fo great. that the federation tie no longer
proles -any guarantee, and among the powerful
was oa a cads of diffenlion and difcord. The
events of the three coalitions carried this enfeeble-1
ment to its tweak length. One Eleftorate has been
fuppreffed by the union of Hanover with Pruffia ; a
Northern Power has incorporated with his other Hates
one of the provinces of the Empire I the treaty of
!suitors has alfigned to the Kings of Bavaria and
Winernliag, and die Eledor of Baden, the plenitude
of Sovereignty—a prerogative which the other Eke.'
tees would claim, and be entitled to claim, but which
could accord neither with the fpirit nor the letter of
the Conaitution of the Empire.
s• His MajeAy the Emperor and King is therefore
obliged to declare. that he acknowledges no longer
she exalt:nee of the Germanic Coallitution—at the
fame time neverthelefs, recognizing the entire and
abfolute fovereigoty of every one of the Princes, of
what Aates Germany at this day confifts. and pre.
kr wing with them the fame relations as with the other
independent powers of Europe.
ss His idajeAy the Emperor and King has tecep-
ted the title of Proteaor of the Confederation a( the
Rhine. He has done fo only from pacific views,and
that hip mediation, conflantly interpofed between the
weak and the Arong, may prevent every kind of tlif
tuition and diforda.
" Having thus done enough for the deareft inte.
retie of his people and of his neighbours—having
provided as much as lay in his power for the future
tranquillity of Europe, and in particular for the tran-
quillity of Germany, which has been conftantly the
theatre of warh-in putting's period to the contra.
diftion which placed the nations and the Princes tin-
der the apparent protettion of a tram really con-
trary to their political interefts and their treaties, his
Majefly the Emperor and King hopes that the na 1
Lions of Europe will at length lend a deaf ear to the
infinuations of thole who with to cherifh eternal war
upon the Continent ; that the French armies which
have pared the Rhine, (hall have paled it for the
laft time ; and that the people of Germany will fee
Wo longer. in the hifinry of the pall, any thing hut
the horrible piifture of diforders of every kind, cf de-
wafiations, and of maffatres, which war always brings
fa its train.
' ', His Majefty has declared that he would never
extend the boundaries of France beyond the Rhine:
be has been faithful to his promile. At pi efent, his
only defire is to be able to employ the means which
Piovinsacs has entrufled to him, f .r the put pule of 1
alerting the liberty of the feat, of reftoring to cotn•
=ace its liberty, and fectoing the reprice and happi-
neflof the *4,11d. (Signed) 14 eetuta '
The Kings of Bavaria and of Wirteroberg. the
Eledors Arch Chancellor and of Baden, she Lend-
grave of Heffe, the Prince of Hohenzollern, the
Pones of Salm Kyrbourg, and the Prince of Yfem-
bniog, have this day fent a Declaration to the Diet,
in which they renounce the Germanic union, and an-
tt..unee their ref. lotion to form among themfelves a
sew Confedera ion, under the guarantee of the Em-
peror of the French.

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