STATE PAPERS. 



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Declaralioii issued by the Prussian 

 Comma iidaiil on his entering 

 Ritzehuttel. 



BY the supreme command of 

 his majesty the king of Prus- 

 sia, Frederick William II I. my most 

 gracious master, it is hereby made 

 known, that the march of the troops 

 intrusted to my command, forming 

 a part of the combined army of ob- 

 servation, employed in the protec- 

 tion of the neutrality of the north 

 of Germany, and the temporary oc- 

 cupation of the bailiwic of Ritzehut- 

 tel, and the village of Cuxhaven, 

 by these troops, has been caused 

 by a misunderstanding which had 

 happened with respect to a Prussian 

 shin. Though after severalfruitless 

 rei|uests and amicable attempts had 

 been made, this misunderstanding 

 is now happily done away, yet as 

 the marching of troops, rendered 

 necessary by the inefficacy of these 

 requests and amicable attempts in 

 the beginning, had once been or- 

 dered, and already commenced, his 

 majesty must have deemed it the 

 more expedient to let it be con- 

 tinued, for the purpose of occupy- 

 ing the bailiwic of Ritzehuttel, to 

 prevent similar events, and hence- 

 forth to watch himself over the 

 maintenance of the neutrality, and 

 over the security (agreeably to the 

 principlesof neutrality) of this place 

 60 important for all slates situated 

 within the line of demarcation. 

 This is the sole object of the arrival 

 of the troops intrusted to my com- 

 mand. As their commanding offi- 

 cer, I shall therefore be particu- 

 larly solicitous in maintaining public 

 tranquillity and security, especially 

 witli respect to relations of neutra- 

 lity ; and in vigorously protecting 

 l-Uu civil branches of the Hamburgh 



government of this place, as well 

 as all other inhabitants and stran- 

 gers arriving here, with all their 

 rights, legal relations, affairs, busi- 

 ness, and property, wherever it 

 may be requisite ; but principally 

 commerce and navigation, which 

 shall not in the least be injured or 

 restrained, but, on the contrary, 

 better secured and preserved in their 

 tranquil and undisturbed course, 

 without, however, making the least 

 alteration in the constitution and 

 public measures of the place ; on 

 the other hand, every person must 

 behave in a peaceable, quiet, and 

 proper manner to the king's troops 

 under my command ; otherwise he 

 will have to ascribe to himself the 

 disagreeable consequences which 

 will inevitably arise from a contrary 

 behaviour. 



(Signed) Wedell, 



Colonel and commander 

 of the royal Prussian 

 regiment of infantry, 

 von Schladen. 



Russian Edict. 



IN consequence of the order of 

 his excellency chevalier Poposs, 

 major-general commandant at Riga, 

 of the 28th instant (August), it is 

 hereby made known to your honour- 

 able senate, that his imperial ma- 

 jesty, after having received the ac- 

 count of the violent behaviour of 

 the English against Denmark, and 

 also that one of their fleets had pass- 

 ed the Sound, by which, the pas- 

 sage being blocked up, may have 

 great influence on the whole trade 

 of the Baltic seas, he has been plea- 

 sed to order, that, for the security 

 against any disadvantage that may 

 arise to the Russian commerce, so 



