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ples which he has uniformly mani- 
~ fested. He will in no respect de- 
viate from them ; and the resolution 
of collecting a corps of his troops 
on the frontiers of his territories, 
and those of the circle of Upper 
Saxony, which are now so conti- 
guous to the theatre of war, will 
prevent any misunderstanding with 
respect to his motives. %, 
In order, however, that no doubt 
may-remain on this subject, his elec- 
toral highness has thought prop=r 
hereby expressly to declare, that 
the assembling of those troops has 
no other object than to cover his 
territories, and those of the other 
states of Upper Saxony, against all 
foreign violence. 
They are, of course, mere mea. 
sures of defence unconnected with a 
design of a¢ting offensively with 
them against any power beyond the 
skirts of his territories, and of those 
of the said circle, whose first prince 
he is. | 
Given at Dresden, July 26, 1796. 
. By his most serene highness the 
’ elector of Saxony’s most graci- 
ous and special command. 
Declaration of the Ele#or of Hanover 
to the Diet of Katishon, on the Sub- 
je of the Imperial Rescript, of the 
17th of OGober, 1796. 
THE minister of Hanover has 
declared to M, de Hingel, the Im- 
rial commissioner, 
That his Imperial majesty had 
dire@tly required his majesty the 
king of Great Britain and elector of 
Hanover to furnish a new proof of 
his marked attachment to the Ger- 
manic constitution, by giving a 
great example, and acting effica- 
ciously in concert with the diet of 
Ratisbon, not only that he may be 
rated for a sufficient quantity of 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
Roman months, but by paying up 
all that remains due of his quota, ’ 
It was declared at the same time 
that it was necessary the number’ | 
of Roman months should exceed a 
hundred. ' 
His Britannic majesty has replied 
to his Imperial majesty, that he’ 
would not, nor was he able to an. * 
ticipate the resolutions of his co- 
estates ; and that he was not at pre- 
sent in circumstances which pemite - 
ted him to answer the demand which 
was made—that since the periods 
when the Jast Roman months were © 
granted, the system of the war had 
completely changed—that different 
states, holding of the empire, had 
made a separate peace, to avoid the 
total ruin with which their coun. 
tries were threatened—that others 
had embraced neutrality for the 
protection of ‘their subjects; and» 
that the prosperity these states en- 
joyed proved that they had attained - 
a salutary objeét—that the affairs 
of the empire have assumed quite 
another aspect, and that the rela- 
tions of his Britannic majesty, in’ 
his quality of elector and prince of 
the empire, were well known to be’ 
inconsistent with the Imperial de. 
‘mands’; that he cannot of course 
consent to the granting of new 
Roman months (tor the ¢ontinaa.- 
tion of this unhappy ‘war) still far’ 
less can he contribute “direétly, 
since the negotiations commenced - 
at Paris, from which is expected 
a happy issue for the tranquillity of 
Europe. ; 
Proclamation of the Archduchess of 
Austria, Maria Elizabeth, to the 
Inhabitants of Tyrol. : 
Dearly and much beloved Subjects, 
THE desire you have manifested 
to take up arms for the good of 
bs “ - SOVEe~ 
