Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-06-03
IMPORTANT A PAPER:
LARAT

the Ialt1s uukS Oi
nenburgh, arch treasurer and elecsor
of the holy Roman empire, &c.&c.
THE court of Prussia has avowed
those hostile designs which she thought to
conceal by her friendly professions.
The Note Yerbale, delivered on the 18th
of April, by the Prussian envoy, baron
Iacobi Kleess, TO the British ministry, an.
nounces that>the electorateso Of Hanover has
been taken possession of, aud that the
ports of the German Sea, and OF Lubbock,
have been closed againsethe British flag.
This declaration gives the lie to Il! those
assurances by which the cabinet OF Berlin
has hitherto endeavored TO cloak itsproceed
inss, to which II moreover add the pre-.
< tension that his Prassian majesty has &C.
S. ouired, by his system Of policy, claims 10
the gratitude Of al tbs northern powers.
Thus actually dispossessed OF the ancl"
ent. inheritance of mpfamiiy, and iasu,ted
in nv rights as a sovereign, IhaVe ordered
ysuch measures 70 be taken as the honor OF
my crown requires; but still owe ito
: myself, TO Europe, antt TO my subjects, to
make a public declaration OF, my sentl-
men.s, as eleesor of Brunswick Lunen-
bureh, upon tho unjust usurPation- OF my
German possessions.
II is not necessary to prove how contrary
this act is 70 the rights OF nations, or to
the laws of the German empire. Their
intraction is too evident to be required to
be proved. 1t is the most sacred principle
of good faith, of honor, aud, in fact, of
all the obligations upon which the reclpro.
cal safety of diferens states among 'hem.
selves, and of each civil society in itself,
repose, which are trodden under foot IN
such a manaer that the world would have
difficulty IN believing it, IF | did not cause
the fscts TO be laid before chem, which are
authenticated in the narrative which l have
ordered to be prepared.
The proceedings of the court of Berlin
when the electorate was occupied by its
troops in 1901 ; its conduct, far from be.
ing friendly during the negotiation tor the
indemnities which followed the peace OF
Lunevihe the declaration which 1t made,
when France prepared 70 invade the eiec.
torate /; and, lastly, the ourthensome con.
s-diiions under which 1t endeavored TO cause
it TO be evacuated, TO Substitute her W
troops, instead of France, had given too
smany proofs 10 the government OF HAND
yer, NOT to ,obFige it to- endeavor to avoid
all sort Of lnter eotioa on the part or this
power, even al the moment that twas on
the point of engaging in a dispute with
France. TIE events which retarded the
arrival in Hanover of the expedition con-
qcerred between Great Britain, Russia, and
Sweden, gave the Prussian troops an oP
pof,unity of anticipating them, after the
French army hsd been obliged TO evacuate
@4he electorate.
This step was accompanied by the most
STA. She invired the Ha his Rass Of xu reus:
men, to resume its functions. in my name,
and to collect the wreck of the army.
The country. already so unfortunate,
Adoubly felt the weight Of the numerous re.
r1quisitions extorted by the Prussian corps,
without the least regard to the situation in
whichthe French left it.
After the unfortunate result of the cam.
spaign of the allies, in the south Of the EN-.
pire, an attack IN the north was TO be ex.
peeeed. His imperial majesty of Russia,
TO obyiate the dangers TO which Prussia
might De exposed, placed, in consequence
OF the convention of Potzdam, his troops
under count De Tolstoy, aud the corps OF
general Benniugsen, under the orders of
his Prussian majesty, and promised him,
moreover, all the assistance for which he
might have occasion. 1t WAS scarcely to
BIS expected that Prussia would avail her.
self of this advantage, and of that which
the promise OF the subsidy she had asked
OF Great Britain gave her, to obtain from
Francs terms contrary TO the Interests
which these resources were intended to
protect This, Notwithstanding, has &C.
tually happened. The secret treaty. the