STATE PAPERS. 



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Subjc61 of the declaration of his 

 majesty the emperor of lliissja, laid 

 before the diet on the 7th of May 

 last. His majesty, who on so many 

 occasions has manifested how much 

 he interests himself in the aHairs of 

 the German empire, could not learn 

 •without the greatest anxiety and 

 alarm, the events which took place 

 in the electorate of Baden, in the 

 month of March last, events by 

 which the territorial rights of the 

 German empire are flagrantly vio- 

 lated, and its future security expos- 

 ed to the greatest danger. Jlis ma- 

 jesty, therefore, thinks it the duty 

 of every member of the empire not 

 to conceal the wish, that the French 

 government may give full and satis- 

 factory explanations to the emperor 

 and the empire relative to the said 

 events, and such as may remove all 

 fears for the future security of the 

 Germanic territory. As a member 

 of the empire, his majesty thought 

 it his duty to express his sentiments, 

 though he has not judged it neces- 

 sary to notice the occurrences al- 

 luded to in a more particular man- 

 ner, in his capacity of guarantee of 

 the peace of Westphalia and the 

 Germanic constitution ; and the less 

 ' so since his majesty could not doubt 

 that a power which had formerly 

 shared with Sweden in the labour 

 and glory of co-operating to the res- 

 toration of the laws, and of order 

 and security in the empire, would 

 be convinced of the necessity of 

 maintaining objects so important, 

 unimpaired and inviolate. 



Verbal'Dcdarot/'oii of llic MiiiHcr 

 of the Elcttor of iiadcii, nindc at 

 the Diet if RathOoii^ Jiilj 2, 

 1804. 



His clc^oral bi^rliness of Baden; 



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while he honours the pure intentions 

 of his Russian imperial majesty in 

 the representatipn which he laid be- 

 fore the diet of the empire on the 

 6th of May, and is penetrated with 

 the liveliest gratitude for the bene- 

 volent friendship which his majesty 

 has manifested for himself and his 

 electoral house, cannot suppress his 

 profound grief that the occurrence 

 in question, which took place in his 

 territory, should be likely to pro- 

 duce disagreeable difterences that 

 may be productive of the most dan- 

 gerous consequences to the peace of 

 Germany. — This important consi- 

 deration, added to a full confidence 

 in the well-intentioned sentiments of 

 the French government and its ex- 

 alted head, towards the whole Ger- 

 man empire, so lately evinced in the 

 mediation of peace, and in the ex- 

 planations, perfedtly suitable to these 

 sentiments, of the occurrences in 

 question, his electoral highness can- 

 not but most earnestly wish thatth« 

 representations made to the diet on 

 the Gth and 14th of May, may have 

 no farther consequences, and that 

 thus the present anxiety may be dis- 

 pelled, since otherwise the tranquil- 

 lity and welfare of the German em- 

 pire, and probably indeed of all 

 Europe, may be again disturbed and 

 endangered. 



Verbal Declaration of the Depirtj/ 

 for the Electorate of Bohemia and 



Archduchi/ of Austria. Dated 



Jiilj/ 6, 1804. 



The Austrian commitial legation 

 at the time fixed for the considera- 

 tion of the imperial Russian note, 

 repeated the circular declaration of 

 the 14th of May, in expectation of 

 a satisfa(^tory explanation on the oc- 

 currence in queiitiun, and will no\r 



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