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CHRONICLE. 



67 



Answer of his Majesty the King 

 of Bavaria. 



" My dear Brother andBrother- 

 in-law ; — I have read, with equal 

 astonishment and regret, the 

 letter of your Royal Highness ; 

 and I cannot sufficiently express 

 to you what a painful impression 

 it has made on me. You know 

 the public and private negotia- 

 tions which have taken place 

 since 1813. Your Minister for 

 Foreign Affairs was witness to the 

 conventions concluded at Paris 

 between the four powers who 

 signed the treaty of 1815 : he 

 knows that I had no share in them. 

 The memorial which my minister 

 delivered on that occasion is 

 inscribed among the public acts. 



*' We have all fought in the 

 bravest manner. The German 

 troops emulated each other in 

 their exertions. The general 

 interest has nevertheless demand- 

 ed sacrifices ; I have made such, 

 as well as the greatest members 

 of the confederation. 



" If the Ambassadors of your 

 Royal Highness are well inform- 

 ed, they will have informed you 

 that the course which I have fol- 

 lowed for these two years has 

 been wholly conformable to the 

 sentiments that unite us ; and 

 that, far from inducing measures 

 against you, I have made it a rule 

 to wait in silence the regulation 

 of the interests on which depend 

 the conclusion of the Acts which 

 will fix the fate of Europe. 



" 1 do not allow myself to 

 make to your Royal Highness 

 any remark on the resolution you 

 take. It is for you, in your wis- 

 dom, to decide on what the well 

 understood interests of yourhouse 

 and your people require. But 



whatever events may ensue, they 

 will never have any influence oit 

 the personal feelings which bind 

 me to a relation who will be ever 

 dear to me, and will nev6r lessen 

 the friendship and tender attach- 

 ment which I cherish for your 

 Royal Highness, and with which 

 I am, &c. (Signed) 



" Max. Joseph." 

 25. Coblentz. — We have to- 

 day received the answer of his 

 Majesty to our Address of the 

 18th of October last. The answer 

 is addressed to the inhabitants of 

 Coblentz, and to those of the 

 cities and communes composing 

 the arrondissement of that name. 

 It is couched in these terms : — 



" The period at which the 

 organization of the States is to 

 take place is not fixed either by 

 the edict of the 22nd May, 1815, 

 or by the 13th Article of the Act 

 of the Confederation. All times 

 are not equally propitious to in- 

 troduce changes into the organi- 

 zation of states. Those who 

 allow themselves to remind the 

 Sovereigns of the execution of a 

 promise freely given, thereby ex- 

 press a blameable doubt of his 

 fidelity in fulfilling his engage- 

 ments, and improperly take upon 

 them to decide on the time when 

 this new order of things ought to 

 be established ; whereas the fixing 

 of this time ought to be as free as 

 the promise given was. Every 

 commune, every corporation, 

 every individual, has the right to 

 lay at the foot of the Throne, and 

 to present to the Ministers their 

 requests, by the way of petition ; 

 but the excitement (provocation) 

 to petition cannot be tolerated ; 

 and this excitement exists when 

 a petition is hawked about in a 

 p 2 whole 



