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PATENT.

We, Franeis II. by the grace of God, elected emperor of the Romans, always august king of Germany, of Hungary, and Bohemia, of Gallicia, Lodomiria, &c. arch duke of Austria, duke of Burgundy and Lorraine, grand duke of Tuscany, &c.

Though we have already attains ed, by the divine will, and by the choice of the electors of the Roman and Germanic empire, to a dignity which leaves no room to desire any augmentation of titles and consideration; it is, however, our duty, in our quality of chief of the Austrian house and monarchy, to provide for the maintenance and preservation of that equality of hereditary titles and dignities with the first sovereigns and powers of Europe, which

belongs to the sovereigns of Austria, both on account of the antient lustre of their house, and in regard to the extent and population of their estates, comprchending independent kingdoms and principalities, so considerable, and which have been secured to them by possession, agreeably to the right of nations, and by treaties: To establish in a durable manner this perfect equality of rank, we have deter

mined, and think ourselves authorised, after the example which has been given us in the preceding century by the imperial court of Russia, and that which is now given to us by the new sovereign of France, to confer also on the house of Austria, as far as relates to its independent states, the hereditary title of Emperor. We have therefore resolved, after mature reflection, solemnly to assume and to establish, for us and for our successors, in the unalterable possession of our independent kingdoms and states, the title and dignity of hereditary emperor of Austria (as the denomi nation of our house), in such a manner that all our kingdoms, prin cipalities, and provinces, shall invariably retain the titles, constitutions, prerogatives, and relations, which they have hitherto enjoyed.

According to this supreme decision and declaration, we decree and enact:

I. That immediately after our title of elected emperor of the Romans, shall be inserted that of here< ditary emperor of Austria; after which shall follow our other titles of king of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, &c.; then those of archduke of Austria, duke of Stiria, &c. and those of the other hereditary countries. But as, since our accession to the throne, there have successively taken place, in the possessions

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II. The title of imperial prince and of imperial princess, shall be given and conferred with that of archduke and archduchess, as well of royal highness, to our de scendants of both sexes, and to those of our successors in the sovereignty of the house of Austria.

III. As all our kingdoms and other possessions must retain, with out restriction, their present denominations and relations, this is understood in particular of our kingdom of Hungary, and of the countries which are united to it, and also of such of our hereditary states as have hitherto been in immediate relation with the Germanic empire, which ought in future to preserve the same relations with it, agreeably to the privileges granted to our house by the emperors our prede

cessors.

IV. We reserve to ourselves the right of determining hereafter the solemnities which shall take place at our coronation, and that of our successors, as hereditary emperor. Those, however, which were practised at our coronation, and at that of our predecessors, as king of Hun. gary and Bohemia, shall continue to subsist in future without any change.

V. This declaration and ordinance shall be published and carried into execution throughout all our hereditary kingdoms and states, without delay, and in the accustomed forms. We have no doubt that all our states and subjects will

receive with gratitude and patriotic interest this disposition, the object of which is to maintain the consideration of the Austrian moitarchy. Done at Vienna, the 11th of August, 1804.

GRAND TITLE.

We, Francis II. by the grace of God, elected emperor of the Romans, always august, hereditary emperor of Austria, king of Ger many, Jerusalem, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, Gallicia, Lodomeria; archduke of Austria; duke of Lorraine, Venice, Salzbourg, Styria, Carynthia, and Carniola; grand duke of Transylvania; margrave of Moravia; duke of Wirtemberg, Upper and Lower. Silesia, Parma, Placentia, Guastalla, Auschwitz and Zator, Teschen, Friuli, and Zara; prince of Suabia, Eichstadt, Passau, Trent, Brixen, Berchtolsgaden, and Lindau; princely count of Habsbourg, Tyrol, Rybourg, Goricia, and Gradisca; margrave of Burgau, Upper and Lower, Lusatia; landgrave of the Brisgau, Ortenau, and Nullenbourg; count of Monsfort and Hobenems, of Upper and Lower Hohenberg, Bregentz, Sonnenberg, and Rothenfels, Blumeneck and Hofen; lord of the march of Esclavonia, Verona, Vicenza, and Padua, &c.

MEAN TITLE.

We, Francis 11. by the grace of God, elected emperor of the Romans, always august, hereditary emperor of Austria; king of Ger many, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Esclavonia, Gallicia, Lodomeria, and Jerusalem; archduke of Austria; duke of Lorraine, Venice and Salzbourg; grand duke of Transylvania; duke of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, Wirtemberg, Upper and Lower Silesia;

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The event which has taken place in the states of his highness the elector of Baden, the conclusion of which has been so melancholy, has occasioned the most poignant grief to the emperor of all the Russias. He cannot but view with the greatest concern the violation which has been committed on the tranquillity and integrity of the German territory. His imperial majesty is the more affected by this event, as he never could have expected that a power which had undertaken, in common with himself, the office of mediator, and was consequently bound to exert its care for the welfare and tranquillity of Germany, could have departed in such a manner from the sacred principles of the law of nations, and the duties it had so lately taken upon itseif.

It would be unnecessary to call the attention of the diet to the setious consequences to which the German empire must be exposed, if

example has just been seen, should be passed over in silence; it will, with its accustomed foresight, easily perceive how much the future tranquillity and security of the whole empire, and each of its members, must be endangered, if such violent proceedings should be deemed allowable, and suffered to take place without observation or opposition. Moved by these considerations, and in quality of guarantee of the constitution of the Germanic empire, and that of mediator, the emperor considers it as his duty solemnly to protest against an action which is such an attack on the tranquillity and security of Germany. Justly alarmed at the mournful prospect it presents, his majesty made no delay to represent his manner of thinking on the subject to the first consul, by the Russian chargé d'affaires at Paris.

While his majesty adopts a measure prescribed to him by his solicitude for the welfare of the German empire, he is convinced that the diet and the head of the empire will do justice to his disinterested, and manifestly indispensable care; and that they will unite their endeavours with his to transmit their just remonstrances to the French government, to prevail on it to take such steps and measures as the violation of their dignity may require, and the maintenance of their future. security may render necessary.

Imperial ukase, issued by the emperor of Russia at St. Petersburgh, the 7th of May, 1804, relative to the admission of foreigners into his imperial majesty's dominions.

1st. To enter our frontiers, all persons, except in the under-men

tioned cases, are to be provided with passports from our ministers or other agents residing in foreign countries. Particular instructions will be sent to our ministers and consuls as to the manner in which such passports are to be granted, so as to cause the least inconvenience to trade or general intercourse.

2d. Persons coming from cities or places where we have neither missions nor consuls, must produce passports at the frontiers from the governors or chief officers there. Passports from inferior officers, from country justices or commissioners, or from the magistrates, will not be acknowledged. The governors of our frontier provinces will receive instructions in what manner they are to communicate with the governors of provinces belonging to another power relative to this point, and directions will be given at the barriers where passports are to be acknowledged.

3d. Russian subjects, traders, and other persons usually residing in Russia, having passports to go abroad for a limited term, will be permitted to return with the same passport.

4th. Persons owing allegiance to two powers (sujets mixtes) must, from our side, be provided with a passport for a year from the regency of that government in which their property lies, with which, during that term, they may pass out and in without interruption.

5th. All persons must produce their passports at the frontiers; and, if conformable to these regulations, they will be allowed to pass without molestation, except such as may be particularly ordered to be stopped.

6th. These regulations are to extend to all sea-ports, in so far as regards passengers arriving there.

Ship-masters, and persons serving on board of ships, are to be admitted upon the former existing regu lations.

7th. All these regulations shall be enforced for the nearer parts of Europe within two months; and for the more distant, namely, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, within four months, reckoning from the date of this ordinance (ukase), which shall be published in the newspapers of both our capitals.

8th. The daily communications of persons residing on the frontiers will remain on the former footing.

9th. The intercourse with various Asiatic nations on the frontiers of the Cuban, on the lines of the Caucasus and Orenburg, and also with the Turkish subjects in general, is to remain on the former footing.

10th. Passports will be granted to persons going out of the country as formerly.

Signed with his imperial majesty's own hand, ALEXANDER. (Countersigned) Ct.V. KOTCHUBEY,

that arrived here from Russia Corfu, May 9.-The last courier brought orders, by virtue of which

the maintenance of the Russian forces in the republic of the Seven Islands, whether land or sea, shall in future be entirely at the charge of his imperial majesty. Till now an annual sum of one hundred and twenty thousand crowns was paid from the treasury of the republic of the Seven Islands, as the half of the pay of these forces. The emperor Alexander also thanked the republic for the offer of erecting him a monument, as had been decreed by their legislative body, requesting that the funds destined for that object, should be laid out on some (M2)

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issued by the prince and president of the Seven Islands, dated May 8. Formerly, citizens, our state groaned under a hard tyranny. Liberty came suddenly within our reach; but the abuse which was made of it, and the excess of republican passions, spread trouble every where. Disorder has disappeared, and we have obtained a fixed system of government, which promises glorious days to our posterity. Each of you, citizens, will acknow ledge in the generous restorer of our well being, after God, the protector of nations, Alexander, who wishes that ours should enjoy constant happiness and, from its infant state, the advantages of maturity. That hero, citizens of the Seven Islands, sensible of the wish expressed by our representatives, of placing the statue of his sacred person in the hall of the legislature, will not consent that a part of the feeble resources of the republic should be employed for this purpose; he wishes that it should be consecrated to some establishment which may be productive of immediate advantage to the people. He has, besides, caused to be notified to his plenipotentiary, that it is his pleasure that the expense of maintaining his invincible sea and land forces, garrisoned in our republic, should be defrayed by the imperial treasury; and that consequently it should occasion no expense to the treasury of the republic. Citizens, behold in these elevated thoughts 7

of Alexander, the happy destiny which is your lot, and will be that of your posterity! We can actually govern and administer, by our proper resources, found useful institututions, accelerate the establishment of the national gymnasium, occasion the revival of our mother virtue of our ancestors, without tongue among us, and with it the overburdening the people with unnecessary taxes, and even with the certain hope of assuring to our pos terity a mild and agreeable life. Thus finishes the infancy of the republic of the Seven Islands. Under such brilliant auspices, and amidst so much prosperity, she appears before her august benefactor so much the more worthy of him; relying upon her proper force, she is more capable of feeling, in all its latitude, the importance of her existence. Let us live only for our country, and to render the homage of our gratitude to Alexander, the founder and protector of our republic. (Signed)

ANT. COMUTO, prince and president.

Co. CAPODISTRIA, secretary of

state.

STATE PAPER.

Note transmitted by order of his Swedish majesty to M. Caillard, the French chargé d'affaires at Stockholm, Sept. 7, 1804.

His majesty the king of Sweden. has received a report of the improper, the insolent, and ridiculous ob servations, which monsieur Napoleon Bonaparte has allowed to be inserted in his Moniteur of the 14th of August, under the article Ratisbon.

The tone, the style, and even the subject of this article, are all of so

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