The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-23 00:00:00

hen the English and French Paper., published that
letter with the answer to it ; and more than that
equity or justice did not require. After these and
other proceedings al'read'y known to the Public, we
venom be surprised to 11n4, to this moment, articles
inserted in the public Prints that falsify facts. In
Proposing, therefore, '-olely influenced by a regard
for truth, and supported by the published documents,
to correct those mil-statements from time to lime,
we courtiee we were to accomplish one of the purest
Objects of public Journals. Awn-Newspaper,
for instance, contains thus (Na. 56 of this year), a
paragraph from the Upper Rhine, in which it is as-
serted, that 66 at the approaching meeting of the
Monarchs, the new form of Germany would be com•
pleted, and that for this purpose the demand of Ba-
varia, to be indemnified by Baden for her cessions to
Austrie, would be decided." Now we do tint exactly
roderstand what this author means by this 66 new
form to he completed," although it must be, no,I
doubt, a desirable object for the citizens and States.
melt of Germany, if a wools he completed which
should never have begun in the way it did, and if, in
the midst of peace and of tille federative act, which
should guarantee the possession of states, rumours
and a cupidity fur forced cessions no longer existed,
which undoubtedly are as foreign to the spit it of the
members of the Holy Alliance, as their basis, which
only rests on arbitrary power.
The writer of the above article however adds,
" that Bavaria had received from her cessions, com-
paratively speaking, but a very smell indemnity, and
that she is therefore now to be entirely indemnified
for her losses." To this we have to remark, first,
that supposing this to be a fact, it would net follow
that Baden were to supply this deficiency by means
of her own territory—an act, to which she cannot
be deemed to be More' bound than all the German
States that joined in the national alliance against the
enemy In the year 1813, and for which, besides more
than sufficient means offered themselves in those Ger-
man Provinces which France had possessed herself of'
on both sides of the Rhine, bat which were after-
wards retaken with the blood of the sons of Baden.
But who could be bold enough to say, the wise Mo.
march., if they had thought the indemnity of Bavaria
as trivial, would have given away those conquests,
as the recently-published maps of Germany exhibit
them, on the party.coloured Left Bank of the lthiete,
to be bestowed on various petty Princes ? This,
however, could not be their intention; for AP need
only refer to the exchanges that took place, accord.
ing to sources of equally statistical values and accord•
log to which official calculations were also made.
Vivaria ceded to Austria, in 1815 and 1816—.
lit. The Tyrol and the Voralherg, a rough,
dreary,iii.d rained couutrs hough ‘,l great
Importance to Au.tria, with . 403,851 inhabitants
ad. The greater part of Salzburg. the
bailiwick Vily the Hausruck, uud the
lon Viertel 387.031 do.
Total 790,8135 iuhabiteeb
In return she received:— •
2st. The Grand Duchy of Wurzburg, in the
same slate us wilco it belonged to the
Grand Duke of Tuscany 345.001 inhabitaots
2d. The Principality of Aschaffentnirg 91.zSti do.
90. The present circle of !tarnish Ilii.aria 3138,057 da.
4th. Ainarbach, Miltenberg, Ilcutsuch, and
Alpeeinn 21,661 do.
3th. Several bailiwicks of the Principality
of Fulda 26,301 do.
Total -875,51 d inhabitants
All excellent Provineec and Dktricts, capable of high cultiva-
tion, tt..d pails of them known as the Paradise of Ger nun).
Thus Bavaria remained a gainer of 84,433 itifia.
bitents, as to numbers, independently of a superior
state of moral cultivation of the population she re-
ceived in exchange for what she gave up ; and this
was called a trivial indemnity 1 What then, we ask,
could be called the offers made to the Grand Duke
of Baden for demanded cessions, to which he is
boond by no compact, nor does any other Treaty
bind him to the equivalent exchanges, but that
of ail the rest of the Confederate States, and which
they have the audacity to quote in the Public Prints
in ti falsified, incomplete, and perverted manner? Is
the Grand Duke to be silenced with a share of the
Rhine-octroi, which Bavaria will receive like him.
self; or with the bridge-toll at Kehl, secured to him
by' the Peace•of Paris, in 1815 ? Is be to be silenced
for the cession of hereditary Slates by a pecuniary
equivalent, collected from sources already his own
by other rightful titles ? Bavaria estimated at. Vienna
her losa in revenuer', after a computation of the coon.
tries offered her at 5,035,756 florins ; but this compu-
tation must be liable to a great deduction ; for in the
Secret Articles of the Treety of Munich, of April 14,
1816 (which the Journal des Details published al-
ready on June 13, 1816), the indemnification yet to
be given to Bavaria is valued at ati income of 100,000
florins, which we should suppose Baden would bard.
1y be called upon to find. Our reporter goes on—
" From the Grand Duchy of Baden news is now in
circulation. according to which it should appear, the
wishes of Bavaria were directed to the union of the
Rhenish Palatinate with her other States." It is un-
cloubtly known, that negotiations took place last
year, at Frankfort, on all those subjects and wishes;
but from whence can that secret intelligence be de-
rived, that Baden had there declared, she would not
'kid one square fool of territory ? Little enough,
to be sure! But the all-disclosing hand of time
tnightlhereafter show, that such a harsh declaration
was never made ; that Baden offered, by way of ac-
commodation, and for from being under an obliga.
tion of right, not square feet, but square miles, of a
tract of country containing a population of 5000
souls, which she was ready, should it be persisted
in, to put on the balance of exchange against terri•
xial indemnities, though the latter might not be
complete.
The above writer continues..--44 Baden was not to
be curtailed during the life of her present Sovereign."
On this subject we refer our Readers to the letter
above-mentioned. Peaur eel q:ruti diserlurn fucil.—
it Grand Duch'. is nut a farm, or a possession held
fair life. The State and the People are one; and,
like the head and the members, they form one body.
A prospective arbitrary power wouttl.be, in point of
fact, as bad as in actual one; for time can never con.
siert wrong into right. When about 30 years ago
the consent of the Duke of Deux-Pont, was to he
:ed, to eaehaoge his hereditary States of Bavaria,
aich were on the point of being attacked, against
Royal Crown of Burgundy, the whole of Eu-
rope b•-:!ame • agitated, and- Frederick the Great
crated the confederacy of rho Prince, I.n order to
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