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imperial majesty, andof the empire, 

 may eventually insure to both a full 

 indemnity, and a general and ho- 

 nourable peace. To his majesty re- 

 mains the just consolation, and per- 

 manent glory, of having, on his 

 part, made such sacrifices to the 

 defence and safety of the emperor, 

 in the present av/ful crisis, as cer- 

 tainly few states in Europe, or 

 members of the Germanic body, 

 could, without much hesitation, 

 have resolved upon. 



Berlin, March 13, 1794, 



Declaration made by Count Goltz, 

 the Prussian ambassador at the 

 diet of the German empire, on the 

 7th of April, 1794, in the name 

 of his master. 



HIS Prussian majesty, in conse- 

 quence of the repeated wishes 

 of the states of the empire, and the 

 negotiations which are going for- 

 ward between him and the court of 

 Great Britain, has at last yielded to 

 continue his troops in their present 

 position for the protection of the 

 empire, and this only in the confi- 

 dential expectation, that the estates 

 Xvill speedily proceed todeliberations, 

 upon the measures for procuring to 

 his majesty the means of maintaining 

 those troops, for the future, tor the 

 protection of the empire, against a 

 poweiful enemy. 



Declaration of the Prussian minister, 

 baron Hochstetter, to the circles of 

 the Upper Rhine, dated April Si/'i, 

 i79'i> respecting the Prussian cm- 

 tingent. 



TN answer to the claim made by 

 -*■ the compt de I echrbach, in the 

 Vol. XXXVa. 



name of his majesty the emperor, 

 as chief of the Germanic corps, the 

 court of Berlin has resolved to de- 

 clare, that the king would never 

 refuse doing his duty as a member 

 of the empire: but that in the case 

 in which he now is effectively called 

 on, he will conduct himself after 

 the example of the other electors 

 and illustrious co-estates, propor- 

 tionably to hisobligations, according 

 to the Germanic constitution and 

 the ancient usage. 



To the above' declaration the laron 

 Ilochstetter verbally added. 



1. The greater part of the army, 

 under coamiand of field-marshal 

 MoUendorff, will defer their march 

 into the Prussian dominions, and re- 

 main in the places of the Lower 

 Rhine, until farther orders. 



2. This delay of the return of 

 the Prussian troops to his majesty's 

 dominions, however, is eventual, 

 and will certainly cease as soon as 

 the hopes of his majesty vanish with 

 respect to the subsidies which he 

 claims from the six anterior circles. 



3. His majesty wishes that the 

 states of the six anterior circles 

 might assemble and deliberate pro- 

 visionally upon the question,v/hether 

 measures were to be taken for the 

 purpose of providingfor, and main- 

 tainliig, the army of his Prussian 

 majesty, for the protection of the 

 empire. 



4. There is no time to be lost ; 

 if his majesty onee should give de- 

 cisive orders for the army to return 

 to his dominions, no remonstrances 

 upon that subject would any longer 

 be listened to. 



5. His majesty has to add, to the 

 demandsalreadyspecified in his de- 

 claration to the directors of the 



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