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London, England, 1804-01-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN JOURNALS.

We have this day received various French and
German journal ; but their contents have been
moftly anticipated by Ode that reached us on Satur-
day laft. On the prefent political Rate of Germany
we have, however, prefented our Readers with a
well written Letter from Ratifbon, which contains
tome interefting particulars.
RATISDOIIp Dec. 28.--The molt vifible dice which
the influence of foreign politics has for Come time paR
had on the German empire, is to wide it by weak•
ening it, and to increafe the difhnion, diverfity
of
views and principles, in proportion as it becomes en-
feebled, and lofes a great part of its members. The
objet of this kind of fchifiu, which has eftablifhed two
Chiefs in the empire, and two dillinEt parties, is. at
prefent, two principal queftions ; one of them is that
of the viril votes, the other the exemption of the im-
mediate Nobility of the empire. One of our Journals
lays, that the Minifter of Brandenbourg has received
and communicated to feveral of the Minifters a re-
fcript of his Court, which Rates, " That his Pa vistas
MAJIISTY will never depart from the principles he
has hitherto manifefted on the queflion of the viril
votes; that he will always infilt on the full execution
of the rail; of the Deputation ; and that if the Eta-
ream refutes to ratify the alit of the empire. which
is preparing on this fulijee, the ditadvantage will be
on his fide." If the primitive Conflitution of the
empire. as well as the ancient relations between the
Chief and its Members be recollected, a declaration of
this nature thews how times and circumftances are
ebanged,and what difference there is between forms and
reality. The Court of Berlin, particularly fines the
treaty of Bane, has teen its influence in the diet in-
mate, while the Court of Vienna has been obliged
to alt merely in oppolition, and on the defentive.
The Court of Munich, by abfolutely feparating itfelf
from Aultria, has completely difplaced the weight
in the Germanic balance, and the other members
mutt regulate themfelves according to their interelts.
At the fitting of the diet held on the :4th inliant, a
memorial of Baron BILDT, the Swedith minifter, was
reld. the fubtlance of which is as follows : " In the
vote given on the aIR of March, a demand was
made in the name of his Swedifh Majefty in his qua-
lity as a Rate of the empire, of two new viril votes in
the college of Princes. As the deliberation on the
conferring of the new viril votes has begun agree-
ably to the decree of the Imperial commiffion of July
Bth, the underligned judges it neceffary to renew this
demand by a particular invitation, making however
a modifications namely. that his Swediffi Majeßy in
regard to the hypothetic arrangement which he has
concluded with the Duke of MDCLINDOVIO
RIN, in regard to the town and Lordfttip of Wilmer,
will now be contented with one new viril vote, which
will be for the principality of Rugen. There can be
no doubt that a vote may be founded in dais confi-
derable principality, which contains 26,0c0 inhabi-
tants. His Majelly then is convinced, that all his
co-ellates will make no difficulty to accede to his
jun demand. difpofed as he is to favour and fupport,
in his quality of Duke of Anterior Pomerania, de-
mands equally well founded which may be made by
other Rates."

In the fame fitting was read an Addrefs, which
the Prince(' Dowager of Oetlingen Wallenfteiri eau(
ed to be laid before the Direaory, and in which the
demanded a fecond viril vote for the County of Bal.
dem. In the prefent [late of Europe and the Em-
pire, the poffeMon of one viril vote more muft ap-
pear of little importance.
. .

The other quellion, which relates to the immediate
Nobility, is more conneaed with the Conftirution,
and Rights of the Germanic Body. It pi-dents two
different objeas of difeuffion :—The firfl is to know
whether exemption from the territorial fuperiority of
the Princes,in whofe tcrritoriestbe immediate nobility
are Melded, is not an ufurpation ? or whether it be a
right legally and conairutionally acquired, authorifed
at leak and eßabliffsed by polfdlion equivalent to a
right ? The fecond demand is, fo ppofing that the imme-
. . . .

diate Nobility have no fufficient right of exemption,
and that their porrefflon is, at preCent, an ufurpation
Cufceptible of being abolifbed, or brought back to its
primitive origin, have the tertitotiAl princes a right
of doing it of themfelves without invoking the politi-
cal authority, or judicial power of the Empire ? or,
in other words, whether the principles of natural and
common law, as well as thole of the Get manic body,
allow there princes members of the raid body to do them-
(elves jußice, and to conflitute themfelves as it were
judges in their own caufe ? In regard to the idea
that the exemption from territorial fupericrity,
claimed by the immediate nobility, is merely an
ufurpation, Come obferre, that if one were to en-
quire narrowly into all the ofurpations favoured by
the lapfe of time or the oblicrity of ages. the terti.
tonal fuperiority of the ma powerful princes of the
empire. and that even of the princes who claim ter-
ritorial authority over the immediate nobility, will be
found In the fame dilemma ; and, that if the Ger-
manic body exhibit at relent the fpeftacle of a fede-
rate body. without the power of conllraint, where
many of the members all as independent powers, it
it in faniiar ufurpations to which poffeffion has gives
the force of right. that we mull leek for the origin of
that anti•Cocial order, or at leaft that it regular Rate of
things. One of the olden and molt delicate queili..ns
in the public right of Germany. is to fix the oa ;gin,

nature, and boundaries of what is called territorial
fuperiority. But, independently of there confident.
tions of right, experience, has proved the confufion
which refidts from the adof taking poffellion which has
been done by the Eledor of Bavaria and Other princes
after his example, without the intervention of a com-
mon authority, either political or judiciery. to regu-
late the reciprocal rights. The reafon of this is, that
the Princes themfelves who claim power over the
immediate nobility and their lands, are not agreed
among thesnfelves in regard ed the relations between
them and Their valfals, while Nee of them take pot.
felon of there lands, as territorial forereigns ; others
only take them under their protedion, to prevent
their neighbours from kiting them. An inllaoee of
this has been teen by the patent on the pin of the
Court of Caffel, publitbed on the s6th of DP/44nber.
The following is another Wiled bytbe Prince of Nas-
sau Usispea

We Flavin ano Avonsrvs, Ore. &C. having been
informed of the encroaChments on the immediate

equeftrian order by leveret of our co ellates, we can-
not defer taking thole matures which' the mainte-
nance of onr rights and thofe of our houfe render
indifpeafably neceffary ; with this view, we fummors
as far as concerns ale fiefs belonging to us and to our
houfe, all our Tafels of the equeftrian order of the
empire, both in our old countries and in thnfi which
we have received as an indemnity, to conform them-
(elves to the obligation they save entered into, to
watch over with the molt fetopuloui attention, the
prefervation of our property and fiefs, and thofe of
our houfe, and confequently not to permit any fo-
reigner taking poffeifion ; to oppofe the fuperiority of
force of the juridical miens, to make a report im-
mediately after, and in general to condo& themfclves
as hecomes loyal vaffals worthy of the confidence
which we place in them. They may be affured on
our part, of our good wilt and of all our proteilion.
" Swum AUGUSTUS PRINCE OF NASSAU."
• Done at Blzbericte, Dee. so, 5803."

In the midtt of this collection, which brings to
mind the expreUlon of the Poet, Non kw juailarins
dfcerito [mina roam. the loft of the left bank c 4
the Rhine wilt be felt for a long time ; and all the
grievances which have there refulted are far from
being redretred. The Prnie of Bietnenheim has
caufed the Miniflers of the Counts of Weflphalia to
reque“ in the Diet, Om it would afe its influence
with the French Government to obtain a removal of
the fequefiration front the privet e property it porefet
on the left bank of the Rhine.

Yeeerday her Majascy and Prince's* Avow*
and ELIZABETH, took an airing by Richmond; Prin.
eels AMELIA took ah airing by Fulhiiin. Princes
SOPHIA of GLOOCESTE/L vihted her MAJESTY. In
the evening dteir Mai amts bad a convert and U-
lna party* Among the company were—Earls of
Heaeinorom and DARTMOUTH, Lord and Lady
SUDLAY. Counter's of CHATHAM, aK.

Mr. Secretary Yoagg had an interview yelterday
with Lord Sr. Vinegar, at his bode !A the Maim.
ralt y.

A correfpondent defires as to alk Minißem whe-
ther it be not a fall that at this time there are 14,000
French and Spanifh troop at the Havanna, and that
the utmoll atlivity is of ed in CaJiz and other ports of
Spain, to fit out for fea every veffel capable of keeping
above water;—And whether it be nut probable, that
an attack is intended to be made upon Jamaica, while
the navies of France, Spain, and even Portugal, make
an attempt upon Ireland ? Might not Spain be dill
abled completely from attempting any thing to our
prejudice ?
A party of recruits Lave marched into Sheernefs
to join the t zth Battalion of the Army of Referve.
winch Regithent is in Barracks at the Fort.

It is Paid that a Dutch veal was employed by /lc-
Napalm to convey 7000 (land of arms, and other
floret, from one port to another : the velrel was no
boner beyond the reach of the batteries, than the
Dutchmen altered their, courfc, and fitt is now fate in
the river Thames.

We have received a letter from Lifbon, dated the
7th inR. which acquaints us, that the Prince having
affembled the merchants, had demanded of thew two
millions of crowns, to fatisfy the immediate calls of
France. In the mean time the Portuguefe treafory
pays nothing. General LASWES lids had another
quarrel with the Secretary of State, and all was again
in contemn. Spain is reprefented as bleeding at
every pare; and the advizes from that count v indi-
cate extreme apprehentions of a rupture with Br:. ain.
—Exchange 64/—Fills, 6 R. per quintal.—Whcate
Soo a 660 rs. palquier.—Greand itrivertker.

Letters were received in town ►ellerday front
Newfoundland, Jamaica, Barbadocs, and the Weft
Indic s.

Alfo American Papers to the ayth, from which
we have made a kw extrath : but they are of no

importance.

ILHAIILfSTOWK, Dsc. 24.—The Prefident has laid
before the Senate a liatement of the perfons imprelfed
from American vcfnls, of v hi:11 the following is the
fummary

By the Brit'lb, forty-three perfons, being citizens
of the United States, of whom twelve had protec-
tions; ten being natives of the Brititb dominions.
and not Rated to be naturaliard as American citi-
zens ; and feventaen of all other countries, who are
not Rated to have been naturalised in the United
States. By the Agent. rf France. two; and one b 7
the Agents of the Bolivian Republic.
New Yoult. Nov so.—J. inns lIMIAPAITI left
this city yelierday, for Philadelphia. in the fame flyla
in which he came z that is, in his coach and font.
accompanied by his forgeon and fecretary in a cur-
rick and pair. and attended by a numerous retinue of
fetvants. It is (aid. that latex eis In much pleated
with the polite attention tbewo to him h.•,e, that he
intends to drfchstrge his Baltimore enaNillment, and
return to refs the winter in New Yeti.