STATE PAPERS. 



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pire, containing an exhortation to 

 the folloiving effect. 



l.'TT'HAT vigourous measures 

 X should be taken to recrait 

 and increase the army of the empire 

 to triple the number of troops of 

 whicli it consisted hitherto, which 

 shall be effected in the speediest 

 manner possible, that the reinforce- 

 ments should arrive at the army on 

 the 1st of February next. 



2. That all the states of the em- 

 pire, who have already troops upon 

 an established footing, should in 

 these pressing and dangerous times 

 march them immediately to join the 

 grand Imperial army for the defence 

 of the empire. 



3. That his Imperial majesty ex- 

 pects that no state will shew, from 

 individual interest, or from other 

 false principles, any backwardness 

 against contributing to the general 

 defence of the empire. ' His ma- 

 jesty would never have manifested 

 any suspicions respecting this point, 

 if unfortunately experience had not 

 shewn him, that from the time the 

 increase of the army had been de- 

 termined to be of triple the number 

 of the former establishment, that the 

 measure has not yet been accom- 

 plished to this day. 



His Imperial majesty, however, 

 from the confidence he pbced in 

 the princes who are invested with 

 the directions of the circles, hopes 

 that they will take the most vigorous 

 measures to enforce the recruiting 

 of the army of the empire. 



The circles of the empire having 

 received, early in November, the 

 preceding circular letter from the 

 emperor, relative to life real per- 

 formance of theircontingents for tiie 

 support of the army of the empire. 



Count Schlick, the emperor's mi- 

 nister with the circle of Franco- 

 nia, also presented a memorial to 

 the assembly of that circle, in sub- 

 stance the same with that presented 

 to the circle of the Upper Rhine, on 

 the 1 6th of August J and containing 

 complaints of the enormous extrac- 

 tion of specie which has been made 

 from the hereditary states of Austria 

 for the countries of the empire, and 

 of the scarcity of money which ne- 

 cessarily results from this, even for 

 the pay of the Imperial army ; be- 

 cause, the circles not having provi- 

 ded either for the subsistence of that 

 army, or the regulation of the price 

 of necessaries, those necessaries ei- 

 ther fail entirely, or cannot be pro- 

 cured for the troops under an enor- 

 mous price. These circumstances 

 necessitate the proposition which is 

 the object of this memorial, made 

 in the name of the Imperial court 

 to the circle of Franconia. 



" To put the subsistence (o be 

 furnished by the country into speedy 

 requisition, according to the exist- 

 ing necessity. — To accept in return 

 an indemnity, regulated according 

 to the medium price for the last ten 

 years ; the payment to be made in 

 notes, instead of money, which it is 

 absolutely impossible to furnish at 

 the present moment." 



The circle of Franconia imme- 

 diately commenced its deliberations 

 up(tn this proposition J but, at the 

 same lime, testified its desire to see 

 an end to this ruinous and bloody 

 war 5 in which respect, it is se- 

 conded by the other circles of the 

 empire, particularly that of the 

 Upper Rhine ; which, on the 14th 

 of November, sent the strongest 

 and most pressing representations to 

 theemperorandto the king of Prus- 

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