**My Lord's and Gentlemen,

"His Majesty has commanded us to acquaint you, that the state of the public business enables his Majesty to close this session of Parliament.

"We are at the same time directed to express to you, the great satisfaction which his Majesty has derived from your unremitting zeal and diligence, and from that attention to the most important interests of his Empire which has been so conspicuously manifested in all your proceedings.

"The measures which have been adopted for the permanent improvement of the various branches of our Military System, your attention to combine these arrangements with the great object of public economy, and the regulations which you have established for the speedy and effectual Audit of the Public Accounts, call for his particular acknowledgments.

"Gentlemen of the House of CommoONS, "We have in command from his Majesty to thank you for the provision which you have made for the various exigencies of the Public Service, particularly by raising within the year so very large a proportion of the public supplies; a measure in itself highly advantageous, and which must create, both at home and abroad, the most favourable impression of our national resources, and of the spirit which animates the British People. You may assured, that the utmost attention shall be paid to the frugal administration of those Supplies, which you have so liberally granted.

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"His Majesty is particularly sensible of the fresh proof he has received of your affectionate attachment, in the provision which you have made for enabling the younger branches of his Royal Family to meet the necessary expences of their station.

<6 My Lords and Gentlemen, "His Majesty, being always anxious for the restoration of Peace, on just and honourable terms, is engaged in discussions with a view to the accomplishment of that desirable end; their success must depend on a corresponding disposition on the part of the enemy; and, in every respect, his Majesty looks with the fullest confidence to the continuance of that union and public spirit among all ranks of his people, which

can alone give energy to War and se curity to Peace."

The Lord Chancellor then, in the usual manner, prorogued the Parliament to Thursday the 28th of August, on which day it was further prorogued to Thursday the 9th of October.

SCOTS APPEALS.

The following is an accurate list of the appeals from the Court of Session, determined by the House of Peers last Session, with their determinations generally :

I.

Ogilvie v. Carron Company.-Af firmed in part, and reversed in part.

2. Moodie (Crawfurd) v. Coutts. This was an important question, whether Mr Moodie, the heir at law of Col. Crawfurd of Crawfurdland, should succeed to his estates, or if Mr Coutts should succeed, to whom the Colonel left the estates upon his death-bed. The Court of Session determined in favour of Mr Coutts.-Reversed.

3. Howie v. Merry, (Paupers.)-Af. firmed.

4. Glassels v. the Earl of Wemyss.→→ Affirmed.

5. Allan v. C. De Voss, and Messrs. Ramsay and Williamson, his agent.→ Affirmed.

6. Rose v. the Earl of Fife, respecting certain claims made by the appellant against the Earl, which the Court of Session rejected.-Affirmed, without hearing the respondent's counsel.

6.Trustees of Murray of Broughton, v. Stotts, respecting a salmon fishing in the river Dee.-Remitted to the Court of Session to review their interlocutor, and let the parties into evidence, as to the general law and usage in this particular river, respecting open and close cruives.

8. Martin v. M'Nab.-Affirmed. By this decision it is established to be com

petent to the Magistrates or Town Councils of the Royal Boroughs in Scot land, to make bye laws, introductory of a new mode of making burgesses, notwithstanding any prior immemorial practice, or usage, to the country.

9. Newal v. Rae.-Affirmed with sol.

costs.

10. Grahame of Gartmore, v. Countess of Glencairn.-Affirmed with rocl,

costs.

11. Rennie v. Tod and others.-Reversed.

12. Smith v. Yelton.-Remitted.
13. Henderson v. Ramsay.-Affirmed.

HIS,

NEW GERMAN CONFEDERATION.

THE new German Constitution, which has long been talked of on the Continent, has at length made its appearance, and the German Empire can now be regarded as nothing more than so many departments of France.The arrangements were all settled while the Russian ambassador, M. D'Oubril, was at Paris, employed in adjusting his treaty of peace with Gen. Clarke. But he was kept in profound ignorance of the transaction, which was not made public till eight days after he had set out for St Petersburgh. The papers relating to such an important subject, we think it necessary to give at length,

FRENCH NOTE. Ratisbon, August 1.

This day M. Bacher, Charge D'Affaires of France, remitted to the Diet the following Note:

"The Undersigned Charge d'Af. faires of his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, at the General Diet of the Germanic Empire, has received orders from his Majesty to make the following declaration

"Their Majesties the Kings of Bavaria and Wirtemberg, the Sovereign Princes of Ratisbon, of Baden, of Hesse Darmstadt, of Nassau, and the other principal Princes of the South and West of Germany, have taken the resolution to form among themselves a Confederation, which places them in safety from all the uncertainties of the future, and they have ceased to be States of the Empire.

"The situation in which the treaty of Presburg placed directly the Courts allied to France, and indirectly the Princes whom they surround, and who are their neighbours, bemg incompatible with the condition of a State of the Empire, it became necessary for those Courts, and for the Princes, to arrange on a new plan the system of their relations, and to cause to disappear an inconsistency which would have been a permanent source of agitation, of inquietude, and of danger.

"On her side, France, so essentially

interested in maintaining the peace of the South of Germany and who could not doubt, that the moment when she should have caused her troops to repass the Rhine, discord, an inevitable consequence of relations contradictory or uncertain, ill defined and ill understood, would have exposed to new dangers the repose of nations, and again, perhaps, lighted up a war upon the Continent; bound, besides, to promote the welfare of her allies, and to enable them to enjoy all the advantages which the treaty of Presburg had secured to them, and which she had guaranteed, France could only see in the Confederation which they have formed a natural consequence and necessary completion of the treaty.

"For a long time, successive changes, which have gone on augmenting from age to age, had reduced the German Constitution to be only a shadow of itself. Time had changed, all the relations of grandeur and of strength which originally existed among the Members of the Confederation, and between each of them, and the whole, of which they made a part. The Diet ceased to have a will that belonged to itself. The sentences of the Supreme Tribunals could not be put in execution. Every thing attested an enfeeblement so great, that the federation tie no longer presented any guarantee, and among the powerful was only the cause of dissention and discord. The events of the three coalitions carried this enfeeblement to its utmost length. One Electorate has been suppressed by the union of Hanover with Prussia; a Northern Power has incorporated with his other States one of the Provinces of the Empire; the treaty of Presburg has assign ed to the Kings of Bavaria and Wirtemberg, and the Elector of Baden, the plenitude Sovereignty; a prerogative which the other Electors would claim, and be entitled to claim, but which could accord neither with the spirit nor the letter of the Constitution of the Empire.

His Majesty the Emperor and King is therefore obliged to declare, that he acknow

acknowledges no longer the existence of the Germanic Constitution; at the same time, nevertheless, recognizing the entire and absolute sovereignty of every one of the Princes of whose States Germany at this day consists, and preserving with them the same relations as with the other independent Powers of Europe.

His Majesty the Emperor and King has accepted the title of Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine. He has done so only from pacific views, and that the mediation, constantly in terposed between the weak and the strong, may prevent every kind of dis. sention and disorder.

"Having thus done enough for the dearest interests of his people and of his neighbours having provided as much as lay in his power for the future tranquillity of Europe, and in particular for the tranquillity of Germany, which has been constantly the theatre of war, in putting a period to the contradiction which placed the nations and the Prin. ces under the apparent protection of a system really contrary to their political interests and their treaties, his Majesty the Emperor and King hopes that the nations of Europe will at length lend a deaf ear to the insinuations of those who wish to cherish eternal war upon the Continent; that the French armies which have passed the Rhine, shall have passed it for the last time; and that the people of Germany will see no longer, in the history of the past, any thing but the horrible picture of disorders of every kind, of devastations, and of massacres, which war always brings in its train.

"His Majesty has declared, that he would never extend the boundaries of France beyond the Rhine: he has been faithful to his promise. At present, his only desire is to be able to employ the means which Providence has entrusted to him, for the purpose of asserting the liberty of the seas, of restoring to commerce its liberty, and securing the repose and happiness of the world.

(Signed) "BACHER."

ELECTORAL DECLARATION. On the same day (Aug. 1.) the folJowing remarkable declaration was transmitted to the Dictatory, thro' the Electoral Arch-Chancellor :

"High and Mighty Lords-The undersigned Ministers and Ambassadors Plenipotentiary to the General Assembly of the German Empire, are commanded, in the name of their Constituents, to make the following declaration to your Excellencies and Highnesses :

"The occurrences of the three last wars, which have incessantly disturbed the repose of almost the whole of Germany, and the political alterations which consequently have arisen, have placed this wellg rounded fact in the clearest light, viz. that the league which hitherto bound together the various Members of the Germanic Body, has ceased to be of any avail, or rather it has, in fact, been already completely dissolved. A sense of this truth has been a long time deeply rooted in the heart of every German; it was rendered more impressive by the experience of last year, grounded not only upon the weakness

of one of the most honourable of the Confederate Powers, but confirmed upon the principle of the instability of human regulations. To these circumstances alone the former separation of the Empire, in the year 1795, must be certainly ascribed, which had for its necessary consequence a division of the different interests of South and North Germany. From this moment also, all ideas of au union of States and interests necessarily vanished; the expressions "the war of the Empire," or "the peace of the Empire," became words without meaning: in vain did we look for Germany in the middle of the Ger. manic Body. That part of it lying next to France, stripped of all protection, saw itself compelled by the calamities of a war with foreign Princes, (which it did not possess the power to put an end to in a becoming manner) to separate itself, in fact, from the general confederacy, by an exclusive treaty of peace. The peace of Luneville, and even the resolution of the empire, in 1803, most undoubtedly would have been sufficient to give new life to the constitution of the German empire, if they had done away the weak part of the system, and strengthened the founda, tion of its strongest pillars.

"But the events of the last ten months which have passed before the eyes of all Germany, have annihilated this hst hope also, and have again placed

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beyond a doubt the total insufficiency of the former constitution. Under the impression of these weighty considerations, the Sovereigns and Princes of South and West Germany have been moved to conclude a new league suited to the existing circumstances. When they absolve themselves by the present declaration from their former alliance with the Germanic Body, they merely follow the system, established by the most ancient precedents, and sanctioned by the declarations of the powers of the empire. They might indeed have preserved the empty appearance of the extinguished constitution, but they considered that it would be more consistent with their duties and the purity of their motives, to publish a candid and free declaration of the resolutions, and the grounds upon which they have conducted themselves.

But in vain would they have flattered themselves, that they had obtained the wished-for object, if they had not been, at the same time, assured of a powerful protection, by which they are now for ever united with that Monarch, who has evinced such strong intentions of agreeing in every thing tending to advance the true interests of Germany.So powerful a guarantee is to be regarded in a double point of view. It confirms the security that his Majesty the Emperor of France, both on account of his own immortal glory, as well as on account of the proper interest of the French Imperial States, will use every exertion for the maintenance of the new order of things in Germany, and the establishment of foreign and domestic

peace.

As this inestimable state of peace is the great object of the Confederation of the Rhine, therefore the former German Imperial Allies of the Sovereigns in whose names the present declaration is made, are hereby clearly informed, that each of them whose situation renders a share in that Confederation desirable to them, may be received as Members thereof, and the same is left open to them.

As we are hereby released from our high and important negotiations, it only remains for us to add the assurances of the high consideration and respect with which we have the honour to be, &c. &c.

Sept. 1806.

Baron Rechberg, Privy Councillor

to the King of Bavaria. Baron Seckendorf, Minister of State to the King of Wurtem. burgh.

Baron Albini, Minister of State,

and Directorial Ambassador from the Electoral Arch-Chancellor of the Empire.

Albert, Baron Seckendorf, Ambassador from the Electoral Prince: of Baden.

Baron Turkheim, Ambassador from the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Edmund, Baron Schmitz Grollen

burg, Ambassador from his Highness the Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and the united House of Hohenzollern. Bishop and Archdeacon Wolf, Comitial Ambassador from the Prince of Salm-Kyrburg. Von Mollenbec, on the part of his Highness the Prince of Isenburg. Ratisbon, Aug. 1. 1806.

Full and Authentic Extracts of the Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine, signed at Paris, July 12. and 19. 1806.

Since experience has shewn that the German Constitution is by no means sufficient for securing foreign and domestic peace to the South of Germany

therefore the following high contracting parties, viz. France, on the one part, and on the other Bavaria, Wurtemburgh, Baden, Cleves and Berg, Hesse Darmstadt, Nassau - Weilburg, and Usingen; Hohenzollern, Hechingen and Seigmartingen; Salm-Salm; SalmKyrburg, Isenburg, Aremberg, Lichtenstein, and the Count of Leyen, have agreed upon the articles of Confederation, as follows!

Article I. The above German Powers separate themselves for ever from the League of the German Empire, and form an union by the name of the Confederation of the Rhine.

II. All proceedings of the Empire are henceforth null and void, in so far as respects the above parties.

III. They renounce all the Offices and Titles of the Empire. Declare their separation as from the 1st of August, at the assembly of the Empire at Ratisbon.

IV. The Electoral Arch-Chancellor

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receives a new title, "Prince Primate and Most Serene Eminence."

V. The Electoral Prince of Baden, the Duke of Berg and the Landgrave of Darmstadt, receive the titles "Grand Duke and Royal Highness," accompanied with royal honours.

VI, Frankfort on the Mayne is the seat of the Confederation.--The Members form two Colleges, the one Royal, and the other Princely.

VII. The Members, in order to break off a dependence upon Foreign Powers, shall not remain in any foreign service. Whoever will not renounce such foreign service or dependence, shall deliver up his States to one of his children.

VIII. No one can alienate his Sovereignty in any other manner than as a confederated one.

IX. All quarrels shall be decided by the meeting of the Confederation at Frankfort.

X. The Presidency thereof belongs to the Prince Primate.-When divided into two Colleges, he shall be President of the Royal one, and the Duke of Nassau of the Princely.

XI. Four weeks after the declarations at Ratisbon, the Prince Primate shall propose a Constitutional Statute, which shall fix the time and manner of the Convocation, the order of the Deli. berations, and the form of the Assembly. XII. The Emperor Napoleon shall be proclaimed Protector of the Confederation. In this quality he shall appoint the successor to the Prince Primate as often as one dies.

XIII. to XXIII. inclusive, point out the cessions and acquisitions of the Confederates. Thus Nassau cedes to Berg, the town of Deutz and its territory.Bavaria acquires the Imperial City of Nuremberg and its territory. Darmstadt acquires the Burgh of Friedberg. The Prince Primate the Imperial City of Frankfort.

XXIV. The Members of the Confederation shall divest of their sovereignties all the Princes, Counts, and Lords, in the district of the confederated country. [Here follows the detail of the divisions, by which several of the considerable principalities are to be parcelled out, under two, three, and more new sovereigns. For instance, the Hohenloe country is parcelled out under Bavaria

and Wurtemburg; the Taxis country under three, and Furstenberg under four different sovereigns.]

XXV. Also, all possessions of Knights companions of the Empire are overthrown. Should there be any property lying in the middle between two of the confederate states, such property is to be divided into two equal halves between the two sovereigns.

XXVI. Definition of the rights of sovereignty. They comprehend the legislation, the highest jurisdiction, civil policy, military conscriptions, and contributions of the sovereignties.

XXVII. The deposed Princes and Counts retain their domains and their rights as landlords, &c.

XXVIII. They shall retain, in crimi nal cases, the privilege of the Austregał Instanz for their persons.

XXIX. The expences of war shall be proportioned among the Confederates, according to circumstances.

XXX. The new Sovereigns shall take upon themselves a certain part of the debts of the deposed Princes and Counts.

XXXI. Every Member must reside within the confines of the confederated country.

XXXII. The Officers of State, if not retained by the new Sovereign, shall be pensioned.

XXXIII. Members of Military or Spiritual Orders, who lose their possessions, shall receive a yearly pension, according to circumstances, during life.

XXXIV. The Confederates renounce all pretensions to the possessions of their fellow Confederates, the eventful right of succession always excepted.

XXXV. Between the French Emperor and the Confederates, as well jointly as singly, an alliance is formed, in virtue of which, every Continental war, in which either of the two parties shall engage, shall become general.

XXXVI. Should a foreign or neighbouring power take up arms, the contracting parties shall arm also. The invitation thereto shall come from the Emperor Napoleon. The contingent supplies of the allies shall be divided into four parts. The Assembly of the Confederates shall determine how much of the contingency shall be put in motion.

XXXVII. Bavaria binds herself to

fortify