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At tlie fettling the indemnities at Ratifbon in 1802, it 
was decreed that the bifhopric with its chapter Ihould be 
fecularifed in favour of the duke of Oldenburg; referving 
only the property within the city, which was to be added 
to the domain of the city. In the definitive treaty of in¬ 
demnities, Feb. 25, 1803, it was again acknowledged as 
one of the three cities of the Hanfeatic League, (together 
w ith Hamburgh and Bremen,) with the guarantee of their 
jurildiftiop and perpetual neutrality. However, when Bo¬ 
naparte over-ran the Prullian dominions in 1806, Lubec 
fell entirely into the hands of the French, and the inha¬ 
bitants were cruelly plundered, and many of them tnaffa- 
cred. On the ill of January, 1811, Lubec, Bremen, and 
Hamburgh, were formally annexed to the French empire ; 
and Davoutt was appointed governor-general of the Hanfe- 
towus and the diltrifts thereto appertaining. In grati¬ 
tude for thefe benefits, they fent a deputation to Paris to 
wait on the emperor, who, being admitted into the impe¬ 
rial prefence on Sunday the 17th ofMarch, 1811, Mr. Door¬ 
man, as prefident of the deputation, prefented an addrefs, 
from which we (hall extraft a few paffages. 
“Sire; At all times we have been Frenchmen in our 
hearts, and from preference. If the anarchy which pre¬ 
ceded your majelty’s reign, relaxed, fora moment, ties of 
Rich long Handing and fo agreeable, we haltened to draw 
them clofer the inlfant your accefiion to power re-aflured 
to the world focial order; and your new f'ubjefts, fire, can¬ 
not fwear to be more faithful to you than they have fliown 
themfelves to be for thefe ten years pafi ; more devoted 
to your pleafure, more obedient to your fyltem, nor more 
difpofed to contribute to the accomplifliment of your de- 
figns, by every effort and facrifice in their power ; and it 
is a pleafing’confclation to the honourable remembrances 
of our country, to reflect, that our independence couid 
yield only to him to whom every thing lias yielded, and 
r'hat our political exiftence was to ceafe only at that epoch 
w hen the deftinies had determined that the Tiber and the 
Elbe fliould flow under the fame laws. If your majelty, 
from that devoted point whence you take a view of hu¬ 
man affairs, permit our fceblenels to indulge in any de¬ 
gree of pride, we Hill venture to think that we enter not 
as a vulgar territory, as an obfeure acquifition, into that 
immenfe circle of provinces, Hruck with admiration, and 
happy in obeying a lingle mafter.” 
We fliall, in like manner, give a few paffages from the 
reply ot his majelty the Emperor and King. 
“Gentlemen, Deputies ot the Hanfe Towns of Ham¬ 
burgh, Bremen, and Lubec ; You formed part of the Ger¬ 
manic empire; your conltitution terminated with its ex- 
iltence. Since that time your fituation was uncertain. I 
intended to re-conltitute your cities under an independent 
adminiltration, when the changes produced in the world 
by the new laws of the Butdn council rendered the pro¬ 
ject impracticable. It was impoffibie for me to give you 
an independent adminiltration, fince you could no longer 
have an independent flag. Your union with the empire 
is the neceffary refult ot the Britilh laws in 1806 anti 1807, 
and not the effeft of any ambitious calculation. In my 
civil laws you will find a protection, which, in your ma¬ 
ritime polition, you can no longer find in the political 
code. That maritime commerce, which confiituted your 
profperity, cannot henceforth be revived, but in conjunc¬ 
tion with the refforation of my maritime power. The 
rights of nations, the liberty of the teas, and a general 
peace, muff be re-conquered at one and the fame time. 
When I fhall have upwards of 100 fail of the line, I fliall 
fubjugate England in a few campaigns. The feamen of 
your coafls, and the materials conveyed to the mouths of 
your rivers, are necelfary to my purpofe. France, within 
her old limits, could not confiruCt a marine in time of 
war. When her coafls were blockaded, (he was compelled 
to receive the law. Now, from the increafe my empire 
has received within the lafl fix years, I can bu^ld, equip, 
and arm, twenty-five fail of the line yearly, without the 
flightefl delay or obltruCtion from the existence of a ma- 
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ritime war. The accounts that have been given me of 
the good difpofition which animates your fellaw-citizens 
have afforded me pleafure ; and I hope, in a fiiort time* 
to have to praife the zeal and bravery of your feamen.” 
The above extracts will certainly be read with marked 
attention and curiolity at the prd’ent day; and deferve to 
remain upon record.—Lubec was taken by the allies 
(Swedes, Ruflians, and Au(trians) on the 5th of Decem¬ 
ber, 18x3. Its fate remains to be decided by the Con- 
greis at Vienna, which is daily expefted to open (Dec. 
1814.) for the defnitive adjuffment of that and many other 
molt important interefts. Lat. 53. 52. N. Ion. 10. 40. E. 
LU'BEC, or Luboi, an ifland in the Ealtern Indian 
Ocean, near the Bland of Madura. Lat. 5.45. N. Ion. 
112.44. E. 
LU'BEN, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Lig- 
nitz ; the town itfelf is (mall, but the fuburbs are large : 
here is a Lutheran college. It is twelve miles north of 
Lignitz, and eighteen weff of Wohlau. Lat. 51.22. N. 
Ion. 16. 15. E. 
LU'BENAU, orLup/NOW, a town of Lower Lufatia, in 
the circle of Calau, on a imall river which runs into the 
Spree, the chief place of a barony, with a chateau : fif¬ 
teen miles fouth-lbuth-eaff of Lubben, and fifty north of 
Drefden. Lat. 51. 53. N. Ion. 13. 52. E. 
LU'BENAU. See Liebenau, vol. xii. 
LU'BENTHAL. See Liebenthal, vol. xii. 
LU'BERSAC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Corrcze : eight miles welt of Uzerche, and twenty- 
one northwelt ot Tulle. 
LU'BIEN, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : twenty- 
fix miles louth-fouth-vvefl of Pof’en. 
LUBIENIETZ'KI (Stanifiaus), a celebrated Polifh Uni¬ 
tarian minuter, was delcended from a noble family, rela¬ 
ted to the houle of Sobieflci, and born at Racow in the 
year 1623. His father, who was miniffer ot that city, 
educated him with particular care, and not only fent him 
to the public Ichools, but took him to the diets of Po¬ 
land, in order that he might introduce him to the grandees, 
and infiruet him in every thing that was fuitable to his 
birth. Afterwards our young fcholar was fent to Thorn, 
where he continued two years, and joined the two Soci- 
nian deputies who were lent to that city in 1644, during 
a conference which was held on the fubjeft of a re-union 
ot religions, p and of which he drew up an account. 
About the year 1648, he was admitted into the miniltry 
by the lynod of Czarcovv,and appointed pallor of a church 
of that name. This fituation he was obliged to quit in 
1655, upon the irruption of the Swedes into that neigh¬ 
bourhood ; and in the following year he retired with his 
family to Cracow. Here he employed much of his time 
with the other miniflers, in frequent falling, prayer, and 
preaching; and for the benefit of the Hungarian Unita¬ 
rians, who came thither with prince Ragotfki, he fre¬ 
quently preached in the Latin language. While he con¬ 
tinued at Cracow lie was much noticed by the king of 
Sweden, who did him the honour of admitting him to his 
table. Alter that city fell again into the hands of the 
Poles, in 1657,11c followed theSwedBh garrilon, with two 
other Unitarians, to fupplicate that they and their friends 
of the fame religious perfuafion, who had placed them- 
lelves under his protection, might be comprehended in 
the amnefiy to be granted at the conclulion of the peace 
with Poland. This was not granted ; and, finding that 
there was no hope of remaining in lafety in his native 
country, he went to Copenhagen, in 1660, to Reek an aiy- 
lum from the king ot Denmark for his perlecuted brethren, 
who had been baniflied from Poland. He received kind 
treatment from his majelty, who could do nothing more 
than promife to connive at their lettlernent at Altena. 
Thus circumlfanced, he thought it advifable to return to 
Pomerania, and arrived at Stettin in 1661. Perfecution . 
followed him to this place, and he was obliged to remove 
to Hamburgh, where he directed his family to join him 
in the year 1662 ; from this city he was driven by the 
fame 
