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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Jats. 



mfts the Opposition Paper to be 

 re-published on the comnienco- 

 ment of the present year, 1818. 

 To enlighten public opinion, 

 however, respecting the motives 

 which caused the suspension of 

 that paper, the following declara- 

 tion is officially published : — 



" His Excellency the Count 

 de Zi'chy, the Austrian Minister 

 at the Court of Prussia, and 

 charged with an extraordinary 

 mission from his Court to that of 

 the Grand Duke of Weimar, 

 made to his Royal Highness in 

 the name of his Imperial Majest}', 

 certain complaints on some very 

 displeasing reflections which had 

 been added by the Editor to an 

 article dated from Vienna, in the 

 266th number of the Opposition 

 Paper of the 1 2th of last No- 

 vember. 



" This complaint being ac- 

 companied by the observation, 

 that no writer can reclcon on the 

 protection of a state when he has 

 had the audacity to calumniate 

 the institutions of another, to 

 revile the people, and to preach 

 insurrection, his Royal Highness 

 considered this observation to 

 agree perfectly with the laws 

 subsisting in the Grand Duchy, 

 and con)prised in the ordinance 

 of the 3rd of May last, and there- 

 fore made no difficulty in order- 

 ing a provisional suspension of 

 this paper, reserving the right of 

 a judicial inquiry. His Royal 

 Highness agreed so much the 

 more readily to this proceeding, 

 because that the Editor had been 

 already several times admonished 

 and censured for injuries of this 

 nature, and that this proceeding 

 of his Imperial Majesty announces 

 the conviction that the respect 



due to the constitution and Go- 

 vernment of his States can never 

 be violated with impunity in the 

 Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar. 



" The same paper had also 

 inserted an article, which spoke 

 of the constitution of Denmark 

 in very unbecoming terms, and 

 which seemed to consider as ad- 

 missible, an opposition to the 

 existing state of things." 



The declaration then goes on 

 to state, that the editorship of the 

 paper having since passed into 

 other hands, the paper is per- 

 mitted again to appear ; but to 

 prevent all misunderstandings, 

 the words " with the Grand Ducal 

 privilege,'' which has hitherto 

 appeared in the head of the Op. 

 position Paper, should be sup- 

 pressed. 



It concludes with asserting, 

 that the Opposition Paper never 

 was, nor ever shall be, an official 

 journal. 



Given at Weimar, Jan. 2, 1818. 



The Director of the Grand 

 Ducal Government of Saxe- 

 Weimar. Eisenach. 



3. Bremen. — Our Gazette con- 

 tains a resolution of the Senate, 

 ordered to be published in it 

 without any observation, con- 

 demning its conduct in its re- 

 marks upon the measures of 

 foreign Governments, and desiring 

 it to abstain henceforth from the 

 insertion of calumnious articles, 

 otherwise the Senate will proceed 

 judicially against the Editor. 



Bow-sTREET. — Fatal Duel. — 

 Yesterday morning an investiga- 

 tion took place before R. Birnie, 

 esq., respecting the cause of the 

 death of Lieutenant Edward 

 Bayley, of the 58th regiment of 

 foot, who was shot in a duel, on 

 § Monday 



