1S8] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



to it. We i-epeat at the same 

 time the assurance that we will 

 let our people enjoy from this 

 moment all the benefits of the 

 project of the constitution, in 

 every thing that does not relate to 

 a representation of the states. 



" On the other hand, we expect, 

 with full confidence, that the sub- 

 jects of our united kingdom will 

 not suffer themselves to be shaken 

 in the observance of their duties 

 as subjects and citizens, but that 

 they will persevere the more in 

 their fidelity and obedience^ as all 

 opposition in every act tending to 

 disturb public order and ti-anquil- 

 lity will he jninished with all tlie 

 rigour of the laws. 



" Given at Stntgard, in his Ma- 

 jesty's Piivy Council, June 5,181?. 

 By his Majesty's command." 



The ministry of the interior, by 

 order of his Majesty, published a 

 proclamation on the 6'th, contain- 

 ing a recital of all that happened 

 at the late diet of Wurtemberg. 



The sudden dissolution of the 

 assembly of states having put an 

 end to his Majesty's hopes of being 

 able to effect the introduction of 

 the repiesentative system, he found 

 it necessary to take upon himself 

 the regulation of the finances for 

 the years 1817 and 1S18. Ac- 

 cordingly, on the 4th of Septem- 

 ber, he published a report address- 

 ed to his Majesty by the finance 

 minister, in which the sum of 

 2,400,000 florins, with the addi- 

 tion of one tenth to make good 

 the expense of the meeting of the 

 states, was charged upon the na- 

 tion. The king at the same time 

 orders all public ollicci's to keep 

 a watchful eye upon such as may 

 endeavour to persuade their fcl- 

 lou-burgliers to resist the law^ on 



the pretext of its not being con- 

 sented to by the states j and 

 threatens all the severity of the 

 law against the disturbers of the 

 public peace. 



SAXE WEIMAR. 



This Duchy appears to have taken 

 the lead of the other German states, 

 with respect to the true principles 

 of a free constitution. Its diet had 

 justdecided,inthemonth of March, 

 that the estates of the nobles, and 

 those of the order of knighthood, 

 were henceforward to be liable to 

 all the public burdens borne by 

 the rest of the people ; but at the 

 same time it enacted, that the 

 actual proprietors shoidd be in- 

 demnified for the loss of the im- 

 munity from contribution which 

 they formerly enjoyed, and upon 

 the faith of the continuance of 

 which they bought and held their 

 estates. 



It has been generally observed, 

 that the greatest harmony and 

 good feeling reigns in the assem- 

 bly of representatives of this 

 Duchy. The order of the peasantry 

 sent deputies who defended their 

 interests with moderation, but 

 with firmness. The attacks made 

 upon the immunity of the estate^ 

 of the noblesse excited at first 

 some animated debates, but the 

 representatives of the noblesse 

 yielded as soon as an indemnity 

 was proposed. 



A proposition made by the 

 Duke of Saxe-Weimai- to thegrand 

 diet sitting at Frankfoit, that the 

 constitution of his duchy should 

 be ])laced under the guarantee of 

 the Germanic Confederation, was 

 formally coniiimcd by a vote de- 

 livered by Austria, and after cer- 

 tain explanations, was concurred 



in 



