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London, England, 1819-04-20 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

DER SIN, MARCH 27.
It seems to be as good as decided, that we shall
have Provincial Assemblies of the States, as was pro-

mised by the Ordinance of the ‘.1'2(1 of May, 1131..
It is a question whether it will be according co the
ancient division of the Provinces, or to a new one.
The Kingdom might be very well divided into hue
Provinces,, s follows :-Ist, of the Vistula ; 2d, of
the Oder ;, d, of the Elbe ; 4th, of the Wesee; and
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sth, of the ine. The first would comprehend East,
West, and South Prussia (Posen) ; the second, Silesia,
Brandenburg, and Pomerania; the third, the Grand
Duchy of Saxony ; the fourth, the ancient West-
phalia; and the fifth, the left Bank of the Rhine—
, this division has many advocates.

BADEN, MARCH 31.
Public Papers state, that the Hanoverian Minister
at the Diet, M. Martens, in consequence of instrue-
tions from his Government, has proposed a general
Reform of all the Germanic Universities, and joint
measures for the restlietion oi the Acadeini:al privi-
leges. He endeavoured to support his proposal, not
only by the disturbancts which took place last year
acGottingen, Lint also upon principles which are de-
veloped in an Essay of SteindAa, present.:.l to the
Congress at Aix•ht-Cnapelle. This proposal," hoW-
ever, is stated to have met with so much opposition
from other Ministers to the Diet, that it was laid aside.
It is said, that Lord Clancarty, the British Deputy •
to the Territorial Committee, has hired his residence
for another year.
• MENTZ, APRIL 8.
The military affairs of the .German Confederation
seem to be prosecuted with activity. Major-General
Langenan, President of the Military Committee, has
examined very exactly the state of the fortress ef
Mentz. The negotiations winch for some time have
been going on between the Porte and the Ambassa-
dors of Spain, Naples, and Denmark, xe, pee: ing a nevr
Tarif of Customs, are terminated, by Naples 'having
obtained the Tarif on the same basis as France and
Denmark, and Spain upon the basis of that between
the Porte and Austria.
The last accounts from the Embassies at Constan-
tinople contain no paatulat s, except that all the Mi-
nisters still continue to protest, in every possible way,
against the order of the Sultan, respecting the jut ;s-
-diction which, by existing treaties, the Ambassadors
ale authorised to exercise over criminals of their re-
spective nations; and that the Spanish Embassy, is
particular, has delivered a most earnest remonstrance,
in answer to which the Sultan signified that he would
by no means desist front his resolution, adding, tlit
if at that moment a Spaniard should appear as a cri-
minal, 'he would have him punished without delay,
as a proof of the jurisdiction belonging to him.
LEIPSIC, MARCH 30.
According to accounts received by the Magistrates
of Lowenberg, a dangerous contagion was stated to
have broken out in the manufacturing town of Reich-
enberg, in Bohemia (only four leagues from Lowest-
berg, and a league from the frontiers of Siles a), of
which 100 persons had died up to the 20th of this
month, and 400 others were ill. The disease, ',bias
seems to be typhus pestilentiales, causes dea. iii S 6
hours. Persons have been sent to make the neces-
sary inquiries, and in the mean time every precau-
tion is adopted to prevent the spreading of the disease.
EXTRACT OF A' PRIVATE LFTTER BARCELONA,