2i6 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



to be authorized to enter into a ne- 

 gotiation with the king of Prussia, 

 for that purpose, in the name of the 

 empire. 



His Imperial majesty, for the 

 reason above stated, requests that 

 the contingent troops, still due 

 from several of the states of the em- 

 pire, should be sent into the field 

 against the most cruelof allenemies, 

 at soon as possible. 



Suhstanceof a decree of the Imperial 

 court, dated Flenna, 13th August, 

 1794, and presented soo?i after- 

 wards to the diet at Raiishon. 



UNFORTUNATELY, since 

 the month of last January, the 

 rsecessity of increasing the forces of 

 the empire is become most urgent. 



The war, on the part of the ene- 

 my, from the violent measurestnken 

 by the ruling party in France, and 

 from the formidable superiority of 

 numbers of their armies, having 

 taken the appearance of the most 

 obstinate offensive war, renders 

 even the defensive operation of the 

 combined powers not only painful 

 and difficult, but requires an extra- 

 ordinary exertion, combination, and 

 union of power, to resist the de- 

 structive enterprizes of enthusiastic 

 hordes, encouraged by various and 

 alarming successes. Which exer- 

 tion and extraordinary erTorts, on 

 our side, are the more pressing, and 

 require the speedier to be put into 

 execution, as there is no time to 

 be lost, lest the evil should rise to a 

 degree, which would render the 

 iinited forces of the empire insuffi- 

 cient to stop its progress. 



The country being in danger, 

 ought to sound the alarm bell 



throughout the German empire. — 

 The measure of a quintuple con- 

 tingent cannot but be an afflicting 

 effort for the paternal heart of your 

 Imperial sovereign. His majesty, 

 however, hopes that such a measure 

 considering (he present urgent cir- 

 cumstai^ces, and the population of 

 the German empire, will not be 

 looked upon as extravagant. The 

 emperor thinksitalmostunnecessary 

 lanher to declare, that, on account 

 of tiie sacritices made, during the 

 three last obstinate campaigns, in 

 men and money, his majesty, with- 

 out the co-operation of the states of 

 the empire, is totally incapable, by 

 himself, to continue the protection 

 of the empire, his domestic resour- 

 ces being entirelyexhausted, by hav- 

 ing already strained all the political 

 nerves of his hereditary dominions, 

 for the defence and protection of 

 the empire. 



Mem orialfrom the Imperial minister., 

 conn t Sch tick, to the assem hly ofthe^ 

 circle of the Upper Rhine, present- 

 ed on the 16th of August, 17 Qi' 



1~ HE undersigned Imperial mi- 

 nister is expressly charged to 

 submit, instantly, to the illustrious 

 diet of the circle of the Upper 

 R bine, the fol'.owingmostimportant 

 observations : 



His Imperial majesty has not fail- 

 ed to make, to the most powerful 

 individii;.! membeis of the eni[ ire, 

 all the representations, admonitions 

 and' demands whicli were to be 

 expected from his sincere love for 

 his country, and from his active 

 care for the general welfare of the 

 empire. Every thing which the 



Imperial 



