The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-28 00:00:00

GERMAN P4Plr.lia•
APPEAL OF THE STATES OF' RftiItIPESITIERD
Tits COURTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, PRUSSIA;
AND DENMARK)
Augsburg. Sept. 16,
A North German Paper has the following (roil
Stuttgardt, dated 25th of July
" The States of the kingdom of Wurtemberg hate
respectfully called, in the following document, upon
the Ministers of the three •Powera, Great Britain,
Hanover, Prussia, and Denmark, as guarantees of
, the Constitution of the country, for their powerful
support in the demand to bare the state of thiegs re-
stored as it was before the changes teased by Nape-
;
Leon's system.
" Your Excellency is tetiesintesi *with the itippy
relation' that existed for Owe centuries bet weer the
Sovereigns of Wirtemberg and the people, and which
were founded upon. solemn -conventions, sworn td
by all the Sovereigns.. These conventions fixed the
duties of the people to the bead, as well as the con.
Iditions of• their submission to him, anti consequently
i the relations, which uniting both, tended to the com-
mon good of the whole. several events indeed, had,
at an earlier period, bad the effect of producing a
temporary stop in the motion of this •wellscontrived
political machine, hat justice always got the better;
'and at length the nninterrepted enjoyment of 410
sacred rights was insured to the peeple by .the gets.
.rantee which wits.aolemnly taken upon themselves
by the Courts of Great Britain) _Prussia, and Den.
mark. To these Government, Wirtemberg is in.
debted, first for the maintenance of its Constitution ill
1760, and for the conclusion of whpt is called the
hereditary compact, which was effected by the media.
lion of Royal Ambassadors sent to Stuttgardt•eza,
pressly for this purpose.
" The Autograph letter of his Majesty, the late
King Frederick the Groat (hereunto annexed), to
the Emperor Joseph 11. dated July 30, 170, for the
attainment of this end ; and the Actor Guarantee, of
May 10, 1771, are held by the people of Wirtent.
berg in grateful-remembrance to this day. The Here.
diary Compact of 1770, concluded in so solemn a
manner, was ponctually observed and maintalneil
during the rest of the Government of the late Doke
Charles, as well as that of Duke Louis and Eugene
of Wirtemberg; his present Majesty also upon his
accession, recognised the whole of the exigOng_Con.
ventioos as the bond between the Sovereign and the
; •
people. He swore to these Conventions under,the
; above-mentioned guarantee; and as it is therein pre-
I scribed, did not receive the homage of the subject,
till this oath hail been taken in the usual form. His
Majesty the King of Wirtemberg has since that time
ceded Montbelliard to the French, and for this as
well as for the Military Dbrtlests borne by the country
has obtained important indemnifications and increase of
territory of the Electoral, and at last the royal dignity;
has subjected to his sovereignly by the greater part
of the Princes, Counts, and Knights of the dissolved 4
German Empire, residing in,Swabia, and made at as,
later period considerable acquisitions in conse-1
(pence of military events. But with the attainment
of the Royal dignity, and of a Sovereignty, such as
of the King of Prussia and of the Emperor of A ostria,
in respect of his German don4nions, his Majesty the
King of NVirteroberg united a total abolition, of. the
Constitution of the country, the dissolution of all
representation, and an absolute Government. The
subjects were deprived of every means of protecting
their rights, founded on such solemn conventions.
Far as they were from consenting to this change, by
word of deed, they however submitted to the law of
necessity, with the hope of hpppier times, and with
the certainty that-their native or new Sovereign, as
he should find himself in ak conditioo, would not
withhold from them advantages and rights which con.
slitrte the condition of the entire existence of the
State, and belong to the hereditary State by the
Conventions, end have •been--secnred to the newly.
acquired provinces, either expressly by Treaties of
Peace, as to the Mediatised. Imperial Cities, by the
.27th sec. of the •Reaess of the' Depugation of the
Empire to
,the Hither Austrian Provinces, by the
Treaty of Presberg, on which • the new rrovittea
have a right to, as an indemnity for the provincial
Constitution which has been taken from them.
" If under these circumstances the people lived in
the pleasing expectation that only transitory
would deprive them of their hereditary, relations
as well as
acquired, rights, nothing' happened on their bide
which could justify a permanent deprivation of that
which has from ancient -times constituted their happi.
ness and the'gdod of their Sovereigns. Wurtemberg
called upon to make the greatest sacrifices, has per.
formed what exceeded the highest expectation, and
almost its last strength, and it has never murmured ;
but the hope of the return of good old times has
constantly lightened thelacrifices of the present me.
lancboly, almost comfortless, conjectures. At lento-
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