sis ANNUAL RE 
3. That a negotiation shall be 
immediately opened, to decide, in a 
permauent manner, on all the points 
in dispute, and that for Prussia its 
preliminary basis shail be, the se. 
paration of Wesel from the French 
empire, and the re-occupation of the 
three Abbies by the Prussian troops. 
‘The instant that his majesty is 
assured that this basis is accepted, 
he will resume that attitude which 
he has quitted with regret, and will 
become to France that frank and 
peaceable neighbour, who fer so. 
many years has seen without jea- 
lousy, the glory of a brave people, 
for whose prosperity he has been 
anxious. But the instant intelli- 
gence of the march of the French 
troops compels his majesty to ascer- 
tain immediately what he is to do, 
The undersigned is charged to insist 
on an immediate answer, which at 
all events must reach his majesty’s 
head-quarters by the 8th of Octo- 
ber; his majesty still hoping that it 
will arrive there time enough, that 
the unexpected and rapid progress 
of events, and the presence of the 
troops, should not put either party 
under the necessity of providing for 
his safety. 
The undersigned is particularly 
instructed to declare, in the most 
solemn manner, that peace is the 
sincere wish of his majesty, and 
that he only requires that which can 
contribute to make it permanent. 
The causes of his apprehensions, the 
claims which he had for ano- 
ther connection, from France, are 
unfolded in the letter of his majesty 
to the emperor, and are calculated 
to obtain from that monarch the last 
permanent pledge of a new order 
of things. 
The undersigned embraces this 
©pportunity te renew te the prince 
2 
GISTER, 1806. 
of Benevento, the assurances of his 
high consideration. 
(Signed ) Knobelsdorff. 
_ Parts, Oct. 1, 1806. 
The senate referred the commu. 
nication to a special commission. 
Act of Confederation of the Rhenish 
League, done at Paris, July 12, 
1806. : 
Whereas his majesty the emperor 
of the French, and their majesties 
the kings of Bavaria and Wirtem. 
berg ; their electoral highnesses the 
arch-chancellor and the elector of 
Baden; his’ imperial highness the 
duke of Berg ; and their royal high- 
nesses the Landgrave of - Hesse. 
Darmstadt, the princes of Nassau- 
Weilburg, and Nassau-Usingen, of 
Ifohenzollern-Hechingen, and Ho- 
henzollern-Siegmaringen, Salm- 
Salm, and Salm Kyrburg, Isenburg, 
Birstein, and. Lichtenstein; the 
duke of Ahremberg, and the count 
of Leyen ; being desirous to secure, 
through proper stipulations, the in- — 
ternal and external peace of south. 
ern Germany, which, as experience 
for a long period and recently has 
shewn, can derive no kind of gua- 
rantee from the existing German 
constitution ; have appointed to be 
their plenipotentiaries to this effect, 
namely, his majesty the emperor of 
the French, Charles Maurice Tal- 
Jeyrand, duke of Benevento, minis- 
ter of his foreign affairs ; his majes- 
ty the king of Bavaria, his minister 
plenipotentiary, A. Von Cetto; his 
majesty the king of Wirtemberg, his 
state-minister the count of Wintzin- 
gerode ; the elector arch-chancellor, 
his ambassader extraordinary, the 
count of Boust; the elector of 
Baden, 
