The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-20 00:00:00

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either v.everslly, or ifs representing more than otto
31enelver, 114 fnHoas
Ae4tria 1 •Me, Prfosia 1. 11.e.seis 1. Fleetly 1.
?leftover I. Wurtainkerg, i„ 111.1•fn 1, Nlrtiorate of
Ikea. I, Grand Duchy of Uesen 1, Denmark, for
lloletelee, I, the Nethertends, for Luserntiorg, 1,
the Gra ntl.Dueal and Dttesl Smolt nooses 1, limns.

wick and Nassau 1, Mecklenburg Schwerin add
Neckletsberg St!?litz 1, Holstein Oldenbuge. An.
halt, andlyttwarktberg t, llohetivillern, Licht/Hi:
Reuss, Schaumbetz Lippe, Lippe and %Val.
deck 1, the free cites 0/ Lubeck, Frankfort, Bre-
men, awd liamburgh 1 ; /Mal 1? !Offs.
V. Austria has the presidency in the Diet of the
Confederation ; every Member of the League is em-
powered to make propositions, and bring them
under discussion ; and the presiding Member is
bound to ',bath such propositiens for deliberation
within v tied period.
VI, When these propositions relate to the aboli-
dun er 'Hegelian of the fundamental laws of the
(;onfedesation, or to regulations relating to the Act.
of Confederation itself, then. the Diet forms Itself
into* full Committee, when the different comp.
mint Member, shall have the following votes propor-
tioned to the extent of their territories :
Austria, Prussia, Saintly, Bivaria, Hanover, and
Wurtemherg, tour votes each; Baden, Electorate of
Howe, Gram, Duchy of, Hesse, Holstein, and Lei.
embere, 3 • setts each ; Brunswick, Mecklenburg-
Seliwerin, end` Hassan, 2 V.0141$ each ; Saxe Weimer,
and lieges, slumber of minor German Princes, with
the free towns, I vote each ; total 69 votes.
VII. Qaestions in the Diet shall be decided by a
Arno* majority of votes, out ordinary occasions, the
Preiident to have the casting rote i • but when in tall
Contirttee, the question mast be deci,leti by a ma.
jority of at least three-fourths.
VIII. The Diet of the Confederation has its sit.
tine at Frankfort on the Maine; its opening is fixed
for the lit of 4eptember. IRI 5.
,IX. 'The *r.t business of tlo. Diet, after H. open-
iegi will be the formation of the organic reguletiane
01 Ant enssfedtration, in regard to its external, nil-
litaev, ash leternal relations.
• X. Every Member of the Colfederatino engages
• teltilleirip fonteetiee ant only all Getemoy, but
niory septeastielitntis of the League against any attack,
tiliwt:ettitleat i ally to gearante• to each other th
of their poatelaions included within the Coo.
federation.
Alfas lin_
_hat)lolo,6nce declared by the Confide.
teflon. no Megaertmos enter into separate esegucia.
hosts with the enemy, nor conclude a separate snail.
Lice of paste.
41thnugh the 'Members possess the right of alliance
of every kind. yet they hied themselves to enter
Into gas 11111101111 bestii• Ware serority of the Cede.
aeration. it to that of any Confederate State.
the*nalers of the League oleo bind thenuelves
sot to mar on whether under arrylegtelt, nee
to deride their differences by force, bat to bring
them under the coasidetttion and declaims el the
Diet.
ee'toPe
aesidea the pm/Atm articles, flame ere a variety
of others relating to the Internal repletion. of Ger.
many, of which the following are the moat interest.
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XIII. Is all the. States of the Confederation a
eisustitsileesl steeetbly of the Stuff-General 'halt
be established.
XVI. Diverate of Christian makings faith, la
the States of the Getman Confederation, can occa-
sion no difference in respect to the enjoyment of civil
and political rightm
The Diet will take i nto consideration in what way the
eivil amelioration of the professors if the Jewish reli-
gion may best be ',Octet); and Now the enjoy.
meat of an spell eights in Worn for the perfornunice
of all civil duties may be most effectually secured to
them in the Stales of the Confederation : in the mean
time the professors of this faith shall continue to ea.
joy the rights already extended to them.
XVIII. The confederate Princes and free cities
agree to secure to the subjects of their Confederate
States the following rights :
a. The possession of landed property out of the
State its which they reside, without being subjected
to greater taxes or charges than those of the native
subjects of such State.
b. The right of free emigration from one German
Confederate State to another, which shell consent to
receive them for auhj cts ; and also the right of en-
tering Into the civil nr military service of any such
Confederate State ; both rights, however, to be en.
jts) ed only in so far as no previous obligation to mi-
litary set vice In their native country shall stand in
the way.

e. The Met on its first meeting shall ocropy it-
self with the formation of some uniform tegulations
relative to the freedom of theTtess, and the securing
of the rietts of authors and publishers against op..
prewtion.
XIX. The Members of the Confederation also en-
gage, ea the first meeting of the Diet, to take into
consideration the state of commerce and intercourse
between the diderent states of the Confederation, as
well *1 that of nati,velation, on the principles adapted
by tharCongress of Vienna.
The above act was concluded, and signed, at
Vienna, on the Sth of June, 1815.

Sr. Pert attluttair, Juvr 17.—The following is
the Man;festo publi,hid by his impala Majesty
from Vienna :
" The sense of Religion, that rich source of ua.
tiotial strength which has prevailed in Russia wince
the oldest times, vanquished, in the face of the
whole world, and for the deiiveranceof Europe, the
de.truttive infidelity--the risiesbief-woricing corrup-
tion of morals—the sad des ion from the right path
to which the human understanding is subject.
" This never-to-be•lnegotten conquest and hi-
umpb, to which histairtundifes nrt.parallef, must.,
is justice, be *milted to.tbe.roesons serriCrers and
heroic deeds by nbltb:the.taithfel Jonasl our coun-
try have testiGearbefriore end.desution. It suitetf,
European R 11440,11 M itedirsobibb aM.hs and
harmonised sit shrie 'views and prejedires, !bids'
CI then had been ft ntiatoce; by directing them to