“STATE: RAP ERS. 
the-name of his majesty the emperor 
and king, to the envoys. repre- 
senting the several princes and 
states of the holy Roman empire, 
that his majesty is ready to enter 
into negotiations with the French 
republic. His majesty, without 
being too mindful of his own in- 
terest, will consult thereby the real 
welfare of the empire, and make 
it his sole care to procure to the 
empire an acceptable, solid, and 
permanent peace. But his Im- 
perial majesty has also, at the same 
time, the just confidence in all his 
co-states of the empire, that they 
will co-operate, with all their 
power, to accomplish this desirable 
end, and not enter into separate 
negotiations with the French re- 
public. His Imperial majesty ex. 
pects, however, the speediest de- 
claration on this subject, and the 
Imperial, co-commissioner . will 
soon present a declaration from 
_the emperor and. king, . explana- 
tory of the sentiments of his Im- 
perial majesty. In other respects,’ 
his, Imperial majesty cannot con- 
ceal,: that the separate treaty of 
peace concluded-on the part-of his. 
Prussian majesty, even in his qua- 
lity of a prince and‘co-state of the 
empire, has’ been most unexpected 
to him. 
: 
Substance of a Declaration made May 
the 12th, 1795, to the Ministers 
of the States of the Empire, in the 
Name of the Emperor, by Baron 
 Huegel, his Ambassador and Com. 
missaty at Ratisbon. 
ALTHOUGH his Imperial ma- 
jesty has been disappointed with 
fespec&t to the conduét of the king 
of Prussia, who sent his minister, 
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Hardenberg, to Basle, where the 
well-known separate peace with 
France was concluded, without the 
concurrence of the states of the 
empire, his majesty the emperor, . 
in order to comply with the wishes 
of the empire, is busily employed 
in taking measurés in order to ob- 
tain the accomplishment of that 
obje& also; and notwithstanding 
the present, disturbances in France, 
and the crisis to which the affairs 
in that country are come at present, 
seem to warn us not to be too 
hasty in a negotiation for peace ; 
his majesty assures the states, that 
he constantly has this important 
objet in view, and that he conti- 
nues his endeavours, in order to. 
comply with the general wishes of 
the states of the empire. 
His Imperial majesty, however, 
reposes so much confidence in the 
states of the empire, as to hope 
_ that with respe& to a peace, their 
, conduét will be direéted according 
to the eighth article of the treaty 
of peace of Westphalia, and to the 
resolution of the, empire of the 
3oth of April, 1793; that they 
will remain united according to the 
constitutional laws of the empire, 
so as not to separate from the Ger- 
manic league, and zealously to con- 
tinue the armaments for the defence 
of the empire, without which nei- 
ther a reasonable nor a solid peace 
can be expected. 
Substance of the Emperor’ s second Re. 
script. to the Diet of Ratisbon, repre= 
sented in the middle of May, 1795- 
HIS Imperial majesty, as a state- 
and member of the empire, ar- 
dently desires to, concur in pro- 
curing a peace for Germany. How- 
R 3 eyer 
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