STATE PA PERS: 
with true pleasure and _ grateful 
approbation, and willbe esteemed 
in its full value; but that his majesty 
_ according to the situation of matters 
cannot as yet resolve himself to ac- 
ceptofthat voluntarysubmission,and 
to ratify the annexed agreement of 
subjection and exemption, but that 
hismajesty will nevertheless find suf- 
ficent motives in that unequivocal 
mark of the confidential attach- 
ment of the city, to make it expe- 
rience, by preference, his favour 
and benevolence, and is already 
prepared to do every thing in his 
power to promote the welfare and 
fafety of the city; while his ma- 
jesty, after a farther developement 
of circumstances and events, will 
also never have any objection to 
answer as much as possible to the 
farther wishes of the city. 
The said minister delivered a 
similar declaration to the cities of 
Weissenberg and Winsheim, 
Rescript, published by Order of the 
King of Prussia, respecting the 
Prussian Territories on the left 
Bank of the Rhine. 
_ Frederick William. 
WE having been informed that 
an opinion has been propagated 
through a_ part of our state of 
Westphalia, situated on the left 
bank of the Rhine, to wit, the 
provinces of Cleves, Meurs, and 
Gueldres, in the actual possession 
of the French troops, that suffici- 
ent remonstrances and protestations 
had not been made on our part 
against the various innovations 
and oppressions which the French 
commissaries and agents exercise 
over our faithful subjects ; we have 
therefore thought it good to make 
this public declaration, by means 
of our regency, jointly with our 
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chamber of war and of territory 5 
and we do publicly deciare, that 
we have never ceased, nor shall 
we ever cease, to interest ourselves 
in behalf of our said subjects, by 
the intervention of our envoy to 
the French republic; and that it 
is far from our intention to de- 
part from the basis of the treaty of 
Basle respecting the civil or finan- 
cial administration of those coun- 
tries, 
In concluding the treaty, by 
which the war between our state 
and the French republic was put 
an end to, it was never our inten- 
tion to’ grant them more than 2 
mere military possession of our pro- 
vinces on the left side of the Rhine, 
till peace should be conctuded 
with the emperor: and this inten- 
tion, which has been taken as @ 
basis :n the negotiation 1s suffici- 
ently manifest by the tenor of the 
5th article, which expressly de- 
clares, ‘¢that the troops of the 
republic shall occupy these coun- 
tries belonging to us.” 
The difference between pro- 
vinces conquered from an enemy, 
and those which belong to a power 
in allance, and which have ben 
merely conceded for a temporary 
military occupation, is sufficiently 
_evident, and it is obvious that they 
ought not to be treated in the same 
manner. 
It is therefore impossible for us 
to believe that the French govern 
ment, considering the amicable 
ties subsisting between us aiid ity 
will still oppose such evident rea- 
soning. It cannot fail to con- 
ceive, that neither sequestration 
nor confiscation of the gvods of 
the clergy, nor the projected sale 
of woods, nor the enormous con- 
tribution of three millions imposed 
ou 
