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GERMAN PAPERS

LEIPSIC, Aram 21.
The late death of the Grand Duke of Baden has brought forward
questions, the development of which must be left to time and to
the wisdom of those statesmen who have already decided greater
matters. We may, however, be permitted to recall to the mind of our
readers hOMC former circumstances, by which they will be better able
to understand the present state of things. The claims which Bavaria
might make to the Palatinate are founded on ancient hereditary
right and modem compacts. In 1813, when Bavaria withdrew
from its alliance with France, it could not avoid restoring the
Tyrol to the Austrian Empire, of which it was one of the most an.
dent and important provinces. But in the convention of Ried,
concluded Bth of October, 1813, Austria promised to the King of
Bavaria a full indemnity, and such a one as should form a connected
whole with the kingdom of Bavaria. Bavaria ceded to Austria,
Tyrol, Salsburg, and Voraiberg, and was to have by way of in.
demnity, Mem, the Palatinate, and such parts of Wurtemberg,
Darmstadt, Nassau, and Baden as would be to form a
connected territory. A convention of 23d of April, 18 6. to which
Austria, Russia, Prussia, and England were parties, guaranteed to
Bavaria indemnities, which were to be taken from Wurtemherg,
Hesse, and Baden, and the eventual succession to the Palatinate.
in {the protocol of the conferences between the plenipotentiaries
of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, at Paris, 3d November, 1815,
it was agreed that in case of the extinction of the direct list
of the reigning Grand Duke of Baden, the right of succession
to the ate was in Bavaria. Lastly, in the Convention
of Munich, signed 14th April, 1816, the King of Bavaria was
promised, besides accession to the palatinate, certain part of the
circles of Neckar, the Tauber, and the Maine. The second source
of possible claims of Bavaria to the palatinate is ancient heredi.
tary right. It is well known, till the last quarter of last century,
Bavaria and the Palatinate formed two distinct electorates. in
1777, the Elector of the Palatinate united both when the Elector
and Duke of Bavaria died, and that line of the house of Wittelsback
became extinct. The Palatinate is therefore the ancient possession
of the present reigning family of Bavaria. It was, however, de.
prived of this pos -ion during the wan of the revolution, sad in
1802 it was joined to Baden, after the peace of Luneville. If the allied
powers had in 1815 taken the status quo of 1789 for the basis, the
Palatinate must have reverted to Bavaria. But the allies guaranteed
the integrity of the Grand Duchy of Baden till the extinction of she
reigning family. Bavaria had so reason to be uneasy on this point,
as the extinction was probable and near at hand, because the courts
of Hochburg descended from an unequal marriage between the Mir-
, grave Frederick and the Countess of Hochburg, and were not capable
of succeeding to the throne. Bavaria had therefore the prospect of
recovering, at no very remote period, the old possessions of its reign-
ing family. But in 1819 the question of the tight of succession in
the grand duchy of Baden was decided by the great Powers to the
prejudice of Bavaria, the courts of Hochburg, belall declared capable
of succeeding to the (Mod Dual Throne. It is manifest that this
decision, which was made shialy through Russian influence (the
consort of the Emperor Alexander was a Princess of Baden) is in di-
rect opposition to the above cantantions. The question is, whether
Bavaria will appeal to these conventions, or will submit to this
&Mon.
MUNICH, Ara: I. 22.
The Royal Board of Police bee communicated to the editors of
the jaarnaLi published here, his Majesty's resolution, that they will
not be allowed to insert articles so the affairs of the Royal fa.
mily, or of the Courts intensted, from whatever source they ma
be derived, if they have not first a In the Augsburg or dist
Munich Political Journal, which Mae specially authorised to
publish them.