STATE PAPERS. 



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give their taxes, direct and iiidi- 

 ■ rect, with the greatest promptness 

 and alacrity : we have seen them 

 rushing with enthusiasm to scenes 

 where danger and duty call ; and 

 offering their blood they give their 

 surest pledge that no other tribute 

 will be withheld. 



Having forborne to declare war, 

 until to other agfgressions had been 

 added the capture of nearly 1,000 

 American vessels, and the im- 

 pressment of thousands of seafar- 

 ing citizens, and until a final de- 

 claration had been made by the 

 Government of Great Britain, that 

 her hostile orders against our com- 

 merce would not be revoked, but 

 on conditions as impossiljle as un- 

 just, whilst it was known that 

 these orders would not otherwise 

 cease but with a war, which had 

 lasted nearly 20 years, and which, 

 according to appearance at that 

 time, might last as many more — 

 having manifested on every occa- 

 sion and in every proper mode, a 

 sincere desire to meet the enemy 

 on the ground of justice, our re- 

 solution to defend our beloved 

 country, and to oppose to the 

 enemy's persevering hostility all 

 our energy with an undiminished 

 disposition towards peace and 

 friendship on honourable terms, 

 must carry with it the good wishes 

 of the impartial world, and the 

 best hopes of support from an om- 

 nipotent and kind Providence. 



jAMts Maudison. 



Declaration respecting the Royal 

 Title oj" Hanover. 



Hanover, Oct. 24. 



Count Munster, the Hanoverian 



Minister of State, delivered, on the 



12th instant, the following note to. 



the Austrian Minister and to the 

 Ministers of other powers assem- 

 bled at Vienna : — 



" The undersigned State and Ca- 

 binet Minister of Hanover ischarged 

 by his august Master to acquaint 

 the Imperial Austrian Court with 

 the following declaration concern- 

 ing the title which his Royal High- 

 ness the Prince Regent of Great 

 Britain and Hanover thinks it ne- 

 cessary to substitute for that of 

 Elector of the Holy Roman Em- 

 pire. 



" The Powers who concurred 

 in the Peace of Paris having agreed 

 by the 6ih Art. of the said treaty 

 of Peace, ' that the States of 

 Germany should remain inde- 

 pendent, and joined in a federal 

 union,' the title of Electoral 

 Prince of the Holy Roman Empire 

 has ceased to be suitable to present 

 circumstances. 



" Several of these principal 

 Powers have, in this point of view, 

 invited his Royal Highness the 

 Prince Regent to renounce that 

 title, and have given him to un- 

 derstand, that by taking, instead 

 of it, the title of King, he would 

 facilitate mauj' of the arrange- 

 ments which the future welfare of 

 Germany seemed to require. These 

 considerations alone have induced 

 bis Royal Highness to consent. 



" The House of Brunswick 

 Luneburg being one of the most 

 illustrious and most ancient in 

 Europe, the Hanoverian branch 

 having filled for more than a cen- 

 tury one of the most distinguished 

 thrones, its possessions being 

 among the most considerable in 

 Germany ; all the ancient Elec- 

 tors of Germany and the house of 

 Wurtemberg having erected their 

 States into Kingdoms ; and, lastly. 



