Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-09-27

in regard to the service anil security of
these Armies, that the Projects, aud other
Public Functionaries, shall receive the d.
rectlons of the Military Governors of the
Allied Powers.
6. These objects shall be still more par.
tlcuIarly determined but the maintain
ance of the different Armies shall take
place on principles which shall be uniform
ly adopted.
z. An Administrative Commission has
been established at Paris, and shall, as
soon as possible, communicate with the
Commission appointed by the King.
8. Orders have been given that the con-
tributions in money which have been inn
posed upon several Towns and Depalt-
ments shall not be further enforced, and
that in future no contribution of this kind
shallbe demanded by the single orders Of
the Intendants of the different armies.
| As these arrangements 90 so far as the
Allies are permitted for the moment, by
due concern for their own armies, and
their military situation, the undersigned
latter themselves, that the Kings Minis
ters will perceive in them, the sincere de.
sire which they feel to contribute to the
establishment of the Royal Authority.
and to the alienation of the charges of the
war, as tar as circumstances allow them
the possibility.
They have the honor to assure PRINCE
Talleyrand of their high consideration.
(SiSned) .Hetternich.
Casttereagh,
.Nesselrode,
HnrdenJernr.
10 his Serene Highness Prince ralley.
rand, sc.
AK La CHAPELLE, July Q.
Publication respecting The restitution offka
acorhs OF art, carriedof by the French
by an official letter from the counseIA
Tor of State, M. Ribbentrop. intendant
General of the army of; the lower Rhine
dated Paris, July 10, have received infor,
nation that his eyceIlency Field Marshal
Prince Butcher, of WahIstadt, immediate.
y alter the taking of Paris, ordered that
all the works of art and Literature which
are there and which had been previously
carried off by the French from the State,
Ioi his Prussian Majesty, should be seized
and restored to the places from which thew
we're taken. For the execution of this or.
der special committee has been appoints
ed at Paris, under the direction of the In
tendant-General, and at the same time n
line of conveyance from Paris TO the
Rhine. The said convoy left Paris nm the
10th. Among the articles which il brinos
is, the invaluable picture of ST. Peter-
which Rubens presentedto Cologne, his
native city, and which the a1dacioua
hands OF our enemies, rayished from tho.
sacred and classic soil. Orders have also
been gwen that the beautiful columns nc
granite and pOrphyry carried off by the
same sacrilegious hands from the sanct,Ias
ry OF our Cathedral at Aix-Ia- ChappelIe. rs
placed afterwards to support the archea
roof of the Hall of Antiquities at Paris.
shall Re pulled down and brought back to
Aix-la- Chappelle.-I had particularly re-.
quested our illustrious field marshal. i'm.
mediately upon the taking of Paris. to
cause these two articles to be restored ha
has Immediately complied with this desice.
and has thus acquired particular right to
the gratitude of the cities of Cologne and
AH-la-Chappelle. You see, Prussians of
the Rhine, that the State of which you are
the Youngest children, was not forgotten IN
seiZe the firstopportunity to make YOU mar
ticlpate in the fruit of its victories. Your
cities will celebrate with grateful Joy
the day on which the property plundered
from your ancestors are retaken from a ra-
paclOus enemy by the powerful hand of
your king, and his warriors shall re-enter
your walls, &c.
The Counsellor of State and Chief
President of the Prussian Provinces of the
Rhine.
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