STATE PAPERS. 



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Austrian army. Provisions and 

 forage were every where driven 

 away without being paid for, and by 

 the receipts, several millions were 

 added to the unacquitted obligations 

 of the last war. — The subjects of 

 the elector were obliged to furnish 

 herses for the Austrian oiVicers who 

 were travelling post; horses were 

 taken from carriages on the road, 

 for the purposes of draught ; con- 

 siderable requisitions were made of 

 horses, which were seized upon by 

 execution. The Bavarian peasants 

 were forced to drive the waggons. 

 The Bavarian soldiers who were ab- 

 sent on leave, and the recruits, were 

 forbidden to join their regiments, 

 under pain of the loss of property. 

 The land was inundated with notes 

 of the bank of Vienna, which were 

 forced into circulation at their no- 

 minal value; and the shop-keepers 

 and trades-people who refused to 

 take them, were threatened with a 

 seizure of their goods. — The com- 

 manders of towns, and the commis- 

 saries of the army, adopted mea- 

 sures which seemed an introduction 

 to a formal assumption of the ad- 

 ministration of the country. — At 

 last the commissaries of the army 

 extended their jurisdiction to that 

 part of the country of which they 

 were not in ])ossession ; and, on the 

 IGth and 17th of September, sent, 

 Bndcr orders of field-marshal Mack, 

 general directions to the electoral 

 civil commissaries at Amberg, at 

 that time the station of the head- 

 quarters of the Bavarian troops. 

 By these directions the taxes, cus- 

 toms, and revenues, of every kind, 

 were to be collected into a chest, 

 on the state of which notice was to 

 be given every eight days to the 

 commissaries of the imperial armies, 

 <«i(liout whoso iustructious, pot the 



smallest sum should be paid, with 

 the exception of a few current sala- 

 ries and pensions ; and that in all 

 the public offices, the Vienna bank 

 notes should be taken at their no- 

 minal value. By another order, 

 they were commanded to search for, 

 and deliver up the Austrian de- 

 serters. The electoral civil commis- 

 saries in Amberg, sent back these 

 orders, with a notification that they 

 could receive instructions only from 

 his electoral highness. The minister 

 Gravenreuth, however, remonstra- 

 ted against these measures of the 

 military commissaries, and on the 

 29th of September dispatched a 

 staff officer to the Austrian head- 

 quarters. The archduke Ferdi- 

 nand, who, in the mean time, had 

 assumed the command of the army, 

 signified his conviction that the mi- 

 litary commissaries had gone be- 

 yond their instructions, appeared 

 to disapprove of their conduct, and 

 promised to communicate an answer 

 in four or five days. As the Austrian 

 troops were now advancing both 

 out of Bohemia, and also by the 

 way of Rain and Newburgh, into 

 the Upper Palatinate, the Bavarian 

 troops found themselves obliged to 

 retreat, and to withdraw into Fran- 

 conia. — On the 28th of September, 

 the answer of the archduke Ferdi- 

 nand arrived in Bamberg, in which 

 he referred to the Austrian minister, 



who was then in Wurtzburgh. 



This minister, notwithstanding all 

 that had taken place, had made na 

 ceremony in repairing to the court 

 at Wurtzburgh. In an audience 

 granted him, he delivered to the 

 elector a letter from the hand of 

 the emperor, in which his majesty 

 insisted on his first propositions, 

 and desired the union of the troops. 

 The minister afterwards declared, 



that 



