102] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



household furniture, &c. of emi- 

 grants. Many small huts and sheds 

 have been already built out of tlie 

 wrecks of the suburbs, and the 

 foundation walls are laid open in 

 order to be built upon." The 

 French left 5,000 sick in the hospi- 

 tals of the place, and it was a great 

 relief when the major part of them 

 were embarked to be conveyed to 

 their own country by sea, since 

 their wretched condition would 

 probably have given rise to a pesti- 

 lential disease in the hot months. 



The events which took place in 

 Hanover will naturally be regarded 

 with peculiar interest in this coun- 

 try, especially as they have termi- 

 nated in a new regal title annexed 

 to the British crown. It ap[)ears 

 from a note published by the Ha- 

 noverian Cabinet on July 13, that 

 the minds of the people had been 

 disturbed by reports propagated of 

 an intended cession or exchange of 

 the States of that Electorate by the 

 house of Guelph ; and it is the 

 purpose of this notification to de- 

 clare, that there is no foundation 

 whatever for such an apprehension. 

 AH doubts that might remain on 

 this subject were dispelled by a 

 note presented on October 12, by 

 Count Munster, the Hanoverian 

 minister of state, to the Austrian 

 and other ministers, assembled at 

 Vienna. Its purpose was to con- 

 vey the declaration of the Prince 

 Regent of Great Britain and Hano- 

 ver concerning the title which he 

 had thought it necessary to substi- 

 tute for that of Elector of the Holy 

 Roman Empire. This title, it was 

 observed, had been rendered un- 

 suitable to present circumstances, 

 by the 6th Article of the Peace of 

 Paris, by which it was agreed, 

 ♦' that the States of Gernjynv should 



remain independent, and join in 

 a federal union." In consequence, 

 several of the powers concurring 

 in the treaty had invited the Prince 

 Regent to renounce that title, and in 

 its stead assume that of King, by 

 which he would facilitate many of 

 the arrangements which the future 

 welfare of Germany seemed to re- 

 quire ; and these considerations 

 alone had induced him to consent. 

 The declaration proceeded to ob- 

 serve, that the House of Brunswick 

 Luneburgh being one of the most 

 ancient and illustrious in Europe, 

 and all the ancient Electors, and 

 the House of Wurtemburg, having 

 erected their states into kingdoms, 

 the Prince Regent could not dero- 

 gate from the rank which Hanover 

 held before the subversion of the 

 German Empire ; and that he had, 

 therefore, resolved to erect his 

 provinces, forming the country of 

 Hanover, into a Kingdom, and to 

 assume, for his Sovereign, the title 

 of King of Hanover. It cannot be 

 doubted that before such a declara- 

 tion was made, the concurrence of 

 the powers, to whose ministers it 

 was addressed, had been fully as- 

 certained ; hence we are told in an 

 article from Vienna, that all the 

 plenipotentiaries recognised the 

 new dignity of the British Sove- 

 reign. A proclamation was after- 

 wards issued by the Prince Regent, 

 informing all the Hanoverian sub- 

 jects of this change, and its mo- 

 tives. 



A proclamation was published 

 in the same month at Hanover, 

 from the Prince Regent, dated 

 August 12th, in which, after ad- 

 verting to the difficulties that had 

 occurred in forming a regular plan 

 of taxation and finance, from the 

 ■reparation of the states of the dif- 



