Star.
London, England, 1803-12-19 00:00:00

GIAATAA'T.

Ravisnotr, Nov. if.—The Diet, which on the
sith had adjourned its fittings to yetterday, has again
commenced its deliberations relative to the votes.
Saxony, Brandenburo, Bavaria, Vf'urtemberg, and
Baden, gave their iuftrages in the College of Elec-
tors, as well a ,n that of the Princes, in which there

were alfo given Come other votes. The contclt which
b about to take place will be ferious and ohainate, as
may be feel by the Imperial rcfcript, recently tranf
tnitted to M. de FmtnINDLItC), Envoy from Aufiria,
and Diredorial Minifler of the College of Princes, by
the Vice Chancellor the Count de ConaNTz►i., dated
Vienna, the toth of November, of which the follow-
ing is the fubflance :

" One of the firft of the Proteftant Courts of the
Empire has addreffed to its Minifter of the Diet a
refcript, which has been made public, in which it has
made known its intention, to pay no iefpea to the
Decree of the Imperial Commiffion of the 3oth of
June, and to rejea the demand made by the Su.
preme Chief of the Empire, to re-eftablilh the pa-
rity of votes between the two religions in the Col-
lege of Princes.' As the laid Court has engaged the
other Proudlent Princes to unite with it in the .fame
objea, the Emperor cannot delay to enable you, by
this paper (agreeable to the motives which he has
announced, Inducing them to attain this objea), to
lay before the Members of the Diet, the justice and
legitimacy of this parer" of vow, which his Imperial
Idajelly has in view. The principal queftion in this
affair is the following : " What right, what juft
mo-
Live, has the Proteftant party, to demand of the
Catholic party, that, inftead of a marity of voices,
which it has hitherto poffeffed, it fbould in future I
content itfelf with the minority of votes ? Agreeable
to the ftipulations of the Treaty of Peace of Lune-
vile, the execution of which was the foie quzftion
before the Diet, the States that were to be indem-
nified had no pretenfion to more than a number of
votes equal to thole they bad loft by the Caron of
their poffeffions on the left fide of the Rhine. As i
among thefe there was bat one tingle vote of a Pro.
teftant Prince, it would have been as as it was
jolt, to re-enablifh, in the College of Princes, the
former proportion ; thus dill preferving the majority
of votes of the Catholic party.
" The Deputation of the Empire having departed
from this principle, fo that there refulted a difpro-
portion in the votes, as arbitrary as it was extraor-
dinary, to the prejudice of the Catholic party, the
Emperor thought it his duty to delay the fana ion of
the Condition in the Diet, on this point, till that evil
fhonld be remedied. His Majefty was fo much the
more authorifsd in this, becanfe, in the Convention of
the 26th of December, in the preceding year, be had
formally refereed to himfelf the rights and powers to
which be was, in a fpecial manner, entitled, in his
quality of Supreme Chief of the Empire, in the col
lation of new votes. The abovementioned refcript par-
ticularly refers to the poffibility that, as the Protellant
party, according to the Treaty of Wellphalia, was to
be contented with. the minority of votes, and of the
negative means of the itio in pan, fo the Catholic
Party might, in the prefent cafe, cede to it the advan-
tage of the majority of votes. But there was no qua':
Con here of the poffibility of the thing ; but of its jut.
Cm and the equity of thefe motives which oughl to
govern the claim. The !aft war was not a war of re-
ligion, like that which the Peace of Weftphalia ter-
minated. It was not, in this cafe, like the former,
entire countries and nations which paired from the
Catholic to the Proteftant Religion. In the whole
of the German territories, on the right fide of the
Rhine, the proportion between the Catholics and the
Proteftants had not been altered, we may fay, by
the difference of a tingle individual ; and, although
the number of the firlt had been decreafed by the
lots on the left fide of the Rhine, it (till greatly ex-
ceeded that of the Proteftant countries and nations ;
confequently, the fame caufe for which the Treaty
of Weliphalia left the majority of votes to the Ca.
ahnlic party, Still exit's entire—that is to fay, the
real luperiority in numbers of di eCaiholic over the
Proteftant party.
• " As, in fimiiar cafes, where countries belonging
to one party have been ceded to Princes of the other
party, meafures have been taken fur the prefervation
of the proportion of votes, fo it was th.uglit jug chat,
in the great changes which has e receudy taken place
in Germany, his Imperial Majefty fhnuld provide for
the ultimate maintenance ofthat majority of the votes
of the Catholic party which accords with the interior
relations of the two parties. But the propofition of
his Imperial Majefty does not extend even to the
eftaLlifh nent of loch a major ity ; having folely for
its object the parity of voter in the College of Princes ;
and, although the difficulty of the execution arifis
folely from the too great extenfion which has been
given to the • propositions framed for the advantage
of the other party, his Majefty will voluntarily
accede to theft propofitions, provided that the parity
of WWI may be preserved : he will alfo agree to the
pi:4;l4mq appal of votes, attached to the countries
which hare been granted as indemnities, provided
filth appeal includes no prejudice to the above
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" Every impartial perfon will perceive, in this erni-
ecfGon, a new proof of the moderation of his Impe-
rial hlajefty. The equality of influence, and the pa.
city of votes io the two religions, at kali in one of
the calleges of the empire, ts abfolutely the IN jto
slim, which the true spirit of moderation, inflruaed
by recent events. and equally diftant from a partial
seal as from indifference in matters of religion, can
polGbly propofc. His biajelly.expeds, therefore. that
the other co-eftates will give like proofs of modera-
tion and juftice. But if he fbnuld be deceived in his
espeflaticm, if the Proteftant party renounce the &n-
-umerics, and ret use the proofs of moderation, which
be requires from the Catholic party, and ;terra in
demanding, that the more numerous party cede and
abandon to the lets numerous party, the majority of
votes in the three colleges, his contemporaries and
pollen'', will not fail to approve the refutation of his
Imperial Weft,. " to oppofe, altht:ugh with re-
lueance and regret, to Inch a demand, ail the means
which belong tia him, iii his quality of Supreme Chief
of the empire, and which his moll rimed duties, and
his paternal I. Ileitis& for the tranquillity. union, and
profperity of the Germanic bodies, and of the two re-
;• by the, ties of brotherhood, ate r 2
&ions united
him, in Loch cafe, to have lieuurfe."

Fran shi ONDONGA2277I, Decoder t 7.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

wart-orrice, DICLMEIR 17.
Dumfries-I/sire Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry.
John Walker, Gent. to be Lintel:act, vice Lakelles, reiignel.
George Tbomproo, Gent. to be Licatemnr, vice 6hort, refigned.
Captain Conger's Troop of Elfez Gentleatra and
Yeomanry Cavalry.
James Milan, Cent. to be Lkutenant, vice Bliley, deteafed.
Edward Ellis, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Jedopp, reaped.
Hatfield Peverell Volunteer Cavalry and Infantry.
Robert am Hafdfooc, ESq. to be Captain of Cavalry. vice
Wright, promoted....