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to be signed upon the 8th of Sep- 

 tember, by his minister plenipoten- 

 tiary and Prince Schwartzenbursh. 

 The latter, however, not bein;^ em- 

 powered to enter into any negociu- 

 tion some fartlier delay was in- 

 duced. Of this impediment the 

 elector availed himself, and having 

 made the necessary dispositions, 

 withdrew himself, on the very night 

 of the day on which the treaty was 

 to have been signed, from Munich 

 to Wurtzbnrgh, and caused the 

 ■whole of his tro jps, at one and the 

 same momeiit, to evacuate their dif- 

 ferent garrisons and cantonments, 

 and march, with the utmost expedi- 

 tion, for the Upper Palatinate — 

 When this manoeuvre was made 

 known, the Austrians occupied 

 Munich without opposition, and ad- 

 vanced upon the upper palatinate in 

 every direction, which movement 

 pressed the Bavarian troops to re- 

 tire within the Franconian states of 

 the elector. 



Fresh negociations now com- 

 menced ; count Buol, the Austrian 

 minister, repaired to Wurtzbnrgh 

 with an oflFer, on the part of the 

 emperor, to assent to the neutrality, 

 provided the elector disbanded his 

 army ; the latter, however, profit- 

 ing of the delay, and of the retreat 

 of his troops in perfect safety, re- 

 fused these conditions, and at length 

 it was agreed to, l)y the emperor's 

 minister, that the elector's Swabiati 

 and Franconian troops should be 

 retained by him, and tftat Munich, 

 with the castle of Nympheuburgh, 

 and the district around it, should be 

 evacuated by thit Austrians, and 

 ihould in future be held sacred to 

 the use of the elector and his court. 

 Before, however, this projH was 

 formally ratified, the approach of 

 the Frcoch ariny entirely liberated 



the elector from all apprehension. 

 The Austrians evacuated his country 

 as rapidly as they had overrun it, 

 and his whole army, unbroken, and 

 in a perfect state of discipline and 

 numbers, joined the legions of Bo- 

 no parte, as they advanced, to the 

 amount, at least, of 25,000 men, and 

 which were of the greatest advan- 

 tage to him during the remainder of 

 the campaign. It is greatly to be 

 regretted that, during the period of 

 the occupation of Bavaria by the 

 A'i?tri ins, it was treated as a con- 

 q'leied country ; military requisi- 

 tions were put in act, modes of pay- 

 ment imposed upon the inhabitants, 

 for their commodities, entirely ina- 

 dequate to their value, and the whole 

 rancour of the Austrian enmity to 

 the Bavarians let loose to its utmost 

 extent. The part the forces of the 

 elector took in the war, and their 

 exploits, we have already detailed 

 in another place, and little doubt 

 remains but that his promptitude 

 and zeal will be well rewarded, in 

 the disposition of the spoil which will 

 take rise from the conditions of 

 Presburg. 



The local situation of the new- 

 formed electorate of Wirtemburg 

 was such, as to subject it to every 

 impression the French despot might 

 choose to stamp npon it. To sec 

 this state, therefore, deserting the 

 Germanic body, and adhering to 

 France, in the campaign of the pre- 

 sent year, is neither surprising, nor 

 unexpected. As it is the princi- 

 ple of Bonaparte to dispart the 

 greater divisions of the continent, 

 and exalt the lower, we shall not be 

 surprised to see Wirtemberg also a 

 considerable gainer by the war. 



From Prussia, however, some- 

 thing might have been hoped, and 

 much indeed attainedjby the common 



cause. 



