162 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818 [Nov. 



maintenance of peace, and the 

 security of those transactions on 

 which the peace was founded 

 and consohdated. 



" The Sovereigns, in forming 

 this august union, have regarded 

 as its fundamental basis, their 

 invariable resolution never to 

 depart, either among themselves 

 or in their relations with other 

 States, from the strictest obser- 

 vation of the principles of the 

 right of nations; principles which, 

 in their application to a state of 

 permanent peace, can alone 

 effectually guarantee the inde- 

 pendence of each government, 

 and the stability of the general 

 association. 



" Faithful to these principles, 

 the Sovereigns will maintain them 

 equally in those meetings at which 

 they may be personally present, 

 or in those which shall take place 

 among their Ministers ; whether 

 it shall be their object to discuss 

 in common their own interests, 

 or whether they take cognizance 

 of questions in which other go- 

 vernments shall formally claim 

 their interference. The same 

 spirit which will direct their 

 councils, and reign in their diplo- 

 matic communications, shall pre- 

 side also at these meetings ; and 

 the repose of the world shall be 

 constantly their motive and their 

 end. 



" It is with such sentiments 

 that the Sovereigns have consum- 

 mated the work to which they 

 were called. They will not cease 

 to labour for its confirmation and 

 perfection. They solemnly ac- 

 knowledge, that their duties 

 towards God and the people 

 whom they govern, make it 

 peremptory on thcni to give to 



the world, as far as in their 

 power, an example of justice, of 

 concoi'd, of moderation ; happy 

 in the power of consecrating, 

 from henceforth, all their efforts 

 to the protection of the acts of 

 peace, to the increase of the 

 internal prosperity of their States, 

 and to the awakening of those 

 sentiments of religion and mora- 

 lity, whose empire has been but 

 too much enfeebled by the mis- 

 fortune of the times. 



(Signed) " Metternich. 



" Richelieu. 



" Castlereagh. 



" Wellington. 



" Hardenberg. 



" Bernstorff. 



'* Nesselrode. 



" Capo dTstria. 

 " Aix-la-Chapelle, Nov. 15, 1818." 

 This document bears the sig- 

 nature of M. Gentz, the Secretary 

 to the Congress. 



15. Munich. The Act of 



Union, of the Lutheran and re- 

 formed Confessions, in the Bava- 

 rian circle of the Rhine, was 

 confirmed by his IMajesty on the 

 loth of October. The chief con- 

 tents of this document relate to 

 the following points : — 



A. General Regulations. — The 

 two confessions are fraternally 

 united, under the name of Pro- 

 testant Evangelical Christian 

 church. It has no other basis of 

 faith than the Holy Scriptures. 



B. Religious Doctrine. It 



declares the holy sacrament of 

 the Lord's Supper to be a festival 

 of remembrance of Jesus Christ, 

 and of the most blessed union 

 with him. 



Confession is a self-examina- 

 tion before partaking of the Lord's 

 Supper ; it is therefore no longer 



called 



