Star.
London, England, 1826-01-14 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

" PETERSBURGH, Dicnisis 46.

14 Whereas his Imperial Higliness the Grand Duke
Constantine having declared ;hat he willresolutely adhere
to his former abdication of the Imperial Crown, the
Grand Duke Nicholas has, today, ascended the Throne
of the Russian Empire, and all the proper Authorities,
and the different divisions of the Army, have taken the.
Oath of Fidelity to his Imperial Ad iiesty. In reference
to this important event, the following Imperial Mani-
festo has appeared :

" MANIFESTO.
" By the Grace of God, Nicholas I. Emperor and Autocrat of
all the Russia.— _

" In the grief of our heart, amidst the general paio
which oppresses us, our Imperial House, and our be-
loved Cotuivry, we can only bend before the impene-
trable decrees of U e ALMIGHTY, and we can only seek
for strength and cons.ilation with him. It has pleased him
to call before him the Emperor Alexander I. of glorious
memory, and we all have lost a Father, a Ruler, who,
during 25 years, was the happiness •if Russia and of us.
" When, on the 27th Nov. the information of this
disastrous event reached us, we hastened, even in this
moment of the most acute grief, to fulfil a sacred duty,
ant, listening only to the dictates of oar hearts, we ren•
tiered the oath of fidelity to our elder Brother, the
Cesarow itch Grand Duke Constantine as legitimate
Heir to the Russian Throne, in virtue of primogeniture.
" Scarcely had we discharged this sacred duty when
we were apprised by the Senate that there had been
deposited in their hands, on the 15th Octaber 1823, a
letter, with the seal of the deceased Emperor, and with
the superscription in the own bawd writing of his Im-
perial Majesty : " To be preserved by the Senate until
my further commands ; in case of my death, however,
this packet is to be opened, is an Extraordinary Sitting,
before any other act is prrfce.ded in:" that this most
gracious command had been complied with, and that
the followjng documents were contained in the packet:—
" I. A letter of the Cesarowitch Grand Duke Constantine.
dated 14th January, 1822, addressed to his Majesty the deceased
Emperor, by virtue of which his imperial Highness renounces the
succession to the throne, belonging to him by primogeniture. _

'• 2. A manifesto, davit August 16, at 3, bearing the auto-
graph signature of his linprrial Majesty, whereby his Majesty,
atter the ratification of the Deed of Abdication of the Cesaro.
witch Grand Duke Constantine, establishes that we, the next In
age, are Heir to the Crown, according to the fundamental laws of
the Empire.
" We were further informed, that documents of the
same tenour had trwn deposited with the directing
Senate, with the Holy Synod, and in the CatLedi.al
Church of the Ascension at 111..scuw.
" Ti ese infoi mations could not alter oar resolution
once taken. We nb.eived in these documents only a
renunciation cf his Imperial Highness during the life di
the Emp:•ror, and confit need by the consent of his lm-
pedal Majes.y ; but we had neither the wish, nor the,
tight, to consider this alsJitation, wh ch• when it took
pl.ce was not proclaimed publicly, and had not re,
,vived. the power tit s law, as irievecable. We would
manliest Ly this our veneration of the first fundamental
LAW of our Country, aryl of the U. alterable order
I succession, ...and fait 4ul the o..th se had
akec, insisted that the whets Empite shoet.liollOrr
cur example. • • •