STATE OP A POE.R S: 
efpecially the ecclefiaftical elective 
princes, unanimoufly agree in the 
main point of doing every thing 
for the common ams and are al- 
ready united with the Imperial 
court; his Highnefs, at leaft, owns 
fuch a connexion for his own part, 
and is prepared to fuffer all the vi- 
ciffitudes which this covenant may 
hereafter produce, and which can- 
not but turn out to be confolatory 
and remunerating to the fortitude 
and the pure policy of the Imperial 
court. His Highnefs, with the reft 
of. his ecclefiaftical co-ftates, is rea- 
‘dy to enter into a more explicit and 
confidential engagement with his 
Imperial Majefty upon that fubject, 
which he expects with gratitude. 
Weurtzburgh, Feb. 15, 1797. 
Note delivered by M. de Weckafovich, 
Chargé a’ Affaires of Ruffia to the 
EleGoral Circle, and that of the Up- 
fer Rhine. 
ALTHOUGH, in the actual 
¢eircumftances, the Emperor, my 
auguft mafter, thinks it not necef- 
fary to put the refolution of the late 
Emprefs, his auguft mother, into 
execution,—his Imperial Majefty 
will neverthelefs not remain lefs 
faithful and inviolably attached to 
the alliances and obligations enter- 
ed into in refpeét to the prefenit 
war; and his Majefty is firmly re- 
folved to fupport them in all their 
integrity. 
The confiderations, the intereft, 
and folicitude which the Emperor 
will not ceafe to take for the well- 
being of the German empire, can 
but determine his Majefty to exhort 
_the ftates and members compofing 
that body, to act in common con- 
cert with his Majefty the Roman 
Emperor, and to fulfil, towards their 
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fupreme head, thofe duties which 
the conftitution has prefcribed, and 
on which the falvation and trans 
quillity of the empire depends. 
Jen. Vl, VI9T. 
Letter of Convocation addreffed to the 
Plenipotentiary Envoys of the Affaciates 
States of Northern Germany, by Von 
Dohin, the Prujfian Minifier. 
THE. underfigned is charged, by 
the exprefs command of the King 
of Pruffia, his moft gracious Sove- 
reign, to make the following over- . 
tures to all their Excellencies the 
Plenipotentiaries of the Affociated 
States of Northern Germany, dele- 
gated to affemble in convention at- 
Hilderfheim. The general concerns 
of Germany, with regard to the 
continuance of the war, ftill remain 
in a moft undecided condition, and 
the confolitary hope of a general 
peace, fo devoutly to be withed, re- 
mains as yet uncertain and remote 
to the laft degree, fince the nego- 
tiations entered upon for that pur- 
pofe may, alas! produce a farther 
and more obitinate war, rather 
than bring about its final conclufion. 
In this perplexing fituation, it cer- 
tainly is a happinefs which Nor- 
thern Germany cannot fufiiciently 
praife, to fee itfelf entirely freed, 
not only from the miferies of this 
ravaging war, but alfo from all the 
inconveniences. connected with it, 
fuch as the requifitions of the belli- 
gerent powers, the paflage and 
marches of troops, and many other 
fimilar burdens. It needs but a 
flight comparative glance at the 
mott piteous ftate of the countries . 
of Southern Germany, formerly 
flourifhing, and now ruined for a 
long time to come, in order to feel, , 
in its whole extent, the happinefs 
of 
