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tion, set asidé all’ private contest, 
and, witha patriotic unanimity, 
open a delibetitioh in the diet, 
for the putpose of appointing a 
deputation of the empire, com- 
posed of as small a number of 
deputies as possible, to be sent to 
the first. congress which may be 
appointed for obtaining a peace, 
These deputies should have full 
powers ‘as deputies from the em- 
pire. The deliberations ought to 
extend upon these peculiar ‘powers, 
to be conferred upon their sub- 
delegates, and lastly upon the in- 
_struétions to be drawn up for the 
conduct of the deputies, respeCing 
the materiale pacis and the modum 
traG@andiy and afterwards a con- 
clusum should be presented’ to his 
Imperial majesty, on all these ob- 
jects: precedents to’ which may also 
be found’ in the ancient atts of the 
diet of the empire. ; 
His Imperial majesty waits with 
the utmost solicitude and impa- 
tience for this conclusum of the 
diét. However, in virtue of the 
éleGion capitulation enaéted in 
the year 1790, under the reign of 
Leopold, the eleétors, princes, and 
states of the empire, have a right, 
independent of their faculty of 
appointing deputies. to the congress 
of the peace of the empire, to send 
to the congress their own ambassa-_ 
dors for their private affairs and in-| 
dividual interest, which relate to 
the negotiation of peace ; whilst, at 
the’same time, they are’ warned by 
his Imperial majesty and’ by the 
empire, that, in the powers and 
in the instru€tions given to these 
peculiar ambassadors, the attach- 
ment to, and’ the union’ and -har- 
mony with his Imperial majesty 
and the empire, should’ always 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1705. 
and the capitulation of the’ elec.’ 
be fully "expressed ; for, uport 
these alone, the true supremacy and 
the safety of the empire must rest. 
The importance and the power 
of Germany are founded upon the 
happy concord of the general will 
of the states, loyally united to their 
chief; as well as its permanent 
welfare is founded upon the invio- 
lability of the principles, and of 
the decisions of the diet of the 
empire. His Imperial majesty _ 
himself is ‘subjeéted to the laws of 
the empire ; but in ‘his faculty of 
presiding as chief, in order to 
maintain them, he hopes that the 
éeleétors, princes, and states, in 
this interesting business of the 
peace of the empire, will deviate 
in nothing from article VII. of 
the Westphalian treaty, and that 
they will regulate their conduct 
according to the decision of the 
dict of Aptil 30, and in the mean 
timé, that they will continue to 
fultil the diffetent obligations im- 
posed upon’, them by the decisions 
of the diet respecting the war of 
the empire, which is still conti- 
nued, until a convenient, accept= 
able, just, and equitable peace, shall 
be concluded, in a most constitu- 
tional form. 
The following are the two pa- 
pers alluded to in the preceding 
decree. 
Copy of the Note delivered from thé 
Emperor to the Prussian Ministry, 
at Berlin, by Prince Von Reusss 
the. Imperial Ministery dated Feb. 
215 1795- “rf Wee} 
THE contents of thé most hum= 
ble advice of the empire, addréssed to 
‘his Imperial majesty by the general 
‘assembly of the diet, in which is 
* commu. 
