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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804 



toral highness has been pleased, 

 at the requisition of the French go- 

 vernment, to give a hint to all no- 

 fcleracD, who quitted France during 

 the revolution, and may now be 

 found in his dominions, to leave the 

 same within ten days, without ex- 

 cepting those who are dependent on 

 the British government. Although 

 this account appear to be tolerably 

 authentic, the undersigned cannot 

 give any credit to it, without re- 

 ceiving a confirmation thereof from 

 his excellency Baron Montgelas, as 

 he is too well convinced of the just 

 and generous sentiments of his elec- 

 toral highness, to believe that his 

 highness could have consented to 

 such a demand from a power, which 

 has formally declared,, by the 4th 

 article of its own constitution, that 

 there are not any relations left ex- 

 isting between it and the persons 

 against whom that measure is sup- 

 posed to be taken : this deprives it 

 of the right to assume any authority 

 with respect to them ; a principle 

 which your excellency owned 30ur- 

 self, at a time when it was in agita- 

 tion to prohibit in this country the 

 decorations of the French monarchy. 

 The undersigned is the more justi- 

 fied in his supposition, that he must 

 have been niisinformed on this sub- 

 jetH, as knowing how sorely the 

 feeling heart of his eleftoral high- 

 ness must be afflided, if obliged to 

 exercise any rigour towards persons, 

 against whom no carse of reproach 

 can be alledged ; unless it be a re- 

 proach, that they have shewn them- 

 selves so firmly devoted to thfeir du- 

 ties, and to that sovereign house 

 w ith which his electoral highness for- 

 merly stootl connedted, in so many 

 respe6ts. The" undersigned is more- 

 over convinced, that it could not 

 escape the enlightened wisdom of 

 his «le<Siorial highness, that a simi- 



lar exercise of rigour, against tlios© 

 respedlable, and already so ve^ry un- 

 fortunate persons, would form a 

 rueful example of the fate awaiting 

 those who, in a moment of danger, 

 are inclined to remain true to their 

 lawful sovereign ; and which exam- 

 ple may induce them to swerve from 

 their duty at the very moment when 

 a sovereign stands most in need of 

 the efforts and actual proofs of their 

 attachment. The undersigned has, 

 therefore, the honour to request 

 baron Von Montgelas to clear up 

 his doubts on this subje(5l, and to 

 inform him, whether the measure 

 in question will extend to the offi- 

 cers of the late Condean army, who 

 are attached to the British govern- 

 ment, that he may be enabled to ac- 

 quaint his court thereof, and to 

 await the commands of his sovereign 

 accordingly. The undersigned avails 

 himself of this opportunity to re- 

 quest baron Von Montgelas to ac- 

 cept the assurances of his most par- 

 ticular regard, &c. 



No/e from the same to the same. 

 Dated Munich^ 31s/ of March, 

 1804. 



I have just received a notice of so 

 very extraordinary a nature, but 

 which is so important of itself, and 

 for the consequences which may re- 

 sult from it, that though I am very- 

 far from crediting it, I think it a 

 duty I owe to my sovereign, to 

 whom my person and services be- 

 long, as well as to his highness the 

 elefl^or himself, immediately to in- 

 form your excellency thereof. The 

 said notice is in substance to the 

 following purport : that a seisure of 

 the British ministry at Munich is in 

 agitation, in the manner of that 

 which took place with respect to his 



highness 



