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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



immediately communicate to its high 

 court the wish of the electorate of 

 Baden, and the motives on which 

 it is founded, in certain expectation 

 that his imperial majesty will receive 

 the proposilion of his eleftoral iiigii- 

 ness of Baden, and the explanations 

 of the French government relaJive 

 to the above-mentioned occurrence,; 

 with all that attention vhich he 

 constantly bestows on every event 

 which may conduce to disturb the 

 tranquillity, security, and welfare of 

 the German empire. 



Verbal Dcdarafion of the Comitial 

 Legation of the Elcclorute of 

 Brandeiiburgh. — Dated July G, 

 1804. 



The legation for Brandenburgh 

 •will hasten to make report of the 

 Terbal declaration of the deputy of 

 the electorate of Baden, suitable to 

 the importance of its contents and 

 the subject to which it relates. In 

 the mean time it believes, from the 

 known sentiments of:his Prussian 

 majesty, that it may with certainty 

 be expected, that his majesty will 

 firid a consolation in the declaration 

 of the elector of Baden, relative to 

 the explanations on the occurrence 

 in question, as being such as are 

 suitable to the sentiments of the 

 French government and its exalted 

 head, towards the empire of Ger- 

 many, as evinced in the late media- 

 tion of peace ; and that his majesty 

 will give his approbation to the wish 

 of his electoral highness of Baden, 

 and the motives on which it is 

 founded. 



Vote of Hanover in the Delibera- 

 tions at the Diet of Ratisborty re- 

 laiive to the Russian Note con- 



cerning the Seizure of the Duke 

 d'Enghien. — Dated Ratisbon,Jidy 



21, 1804. 



His Britannic majesty and elec- 

 toral highness of Brunswick Lu- 

 nenburgh, has observed with the 

 most grateful approbation the part 

 taken by his imperial Russian ma- 

 jesty for the maintenance of the 

 rights of nations, the peace of Lu- 

 nevillc, and the security of the Ger- 

 man empire, which have been vio« 

 lated in the most extraordinary and 

 alarming manner, by the late pro- 

 ceedings of the P^rench government 

 in the territory of the electorate of 

 Baden ; and the strong representa- 

 tion he has made on these occur- 

 rences to the diet of the empire, in 

 the note given in by his legation at 

 Ratisbon on the 6t]i of May, of the 

 present 3 ear. As his Britannic ma- 

 jesty and electoral higfiness of 

 Brunswick Luncnburgh, fully co- 

 incides in opinion on this subjecl; 

 Mith his imperial Russian majesty, 

 he makes no dciay to propose and 

 support with all his votes, that his 

 imperial Russian majesty may be re- 

 quested by an a6l of the diet, to 

 take such measures as in his wisdom 

 he may judge proper, to obtain for 

 the German Empire from the French 

 government, satisfactory explana- 

 tions with respeft to the past, and 

 sufficient security for the future. 

 As, however, a much more import- 

 ant and more dangerous violation of 

 the rights of nations, the treaty of 

 Luneville, and the security of the 

 German empire, was committed by 

 the hostile invasion, and still conti- 

 nued occupation and oppression of 

 his majesty's German states, by the 

 French government, in total disre- 

 gard of the Germamc constitution 

 and independence, his majesty can. 



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