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concurred in the present act, should judge it necessary to establish particular meetings, either of the Sovereigns them selves, or of their respective Ministers and Plenipotentiaries, to treat in common of their proper interests, in so far as they have reference to the object of their present deliberations, the time and place of these meetings shall, on each occasion, be previously fixed, by means of diplomatic communications; and that in the case of these meetings having for their object affairs specially connected with the interests of the other States of Europe, they shall only take place in consequence of a formal invitation on the part of such of those States as the said affairs may concern, and under the express reservation of their right of direct participation therein, either directly or by their plenipotentiaries.

"5. That the resolutions contained in the present act shall be made known to all the Courts of Europe, by the subjoined declaration, which shall be considered as sanctioned by the Protocol, and forming part thereof.

"Done in quintuple, and reciprocally exchanged in the original, by the subscribing Cabinets.

(Signed)" Metternich.

"RICHELIEU.

"CASTLEReagh.

"WELLINGTON.

"HARDENBERG.

"BERNSTOrff.

"NESSELRode. · "CAPO D'ISTRIA.

DECLARATION.

"Now that the pacification of Europe is accomplished, by the resolution of withdrawing the foreign troops from the French territory; and now that there is an end of those measures of precaution which deplorable events had rendered necessary, the Ministers and Plenipotentiaries of their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of France, the King of Great Britain, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of all the Russias, have received orders from their Sovereigns, to make known to all the Courts of Europe, the results of their meeting at Aixla-Chapelle, and with that view to publish the following declaration:

"The convention of the 9th of October, which definitively regulated the execution of the engagements agreed to in the treaty of peace of November, 20, 1815, is considered by the Sovereigns who concurred therein, as the accomplishment of the work of peace, and as the completion of the political system destined to ensure its solidity.

"The intimate union established among the Monarchs, who are joint parties to this system, by their own principles, no less than by the interests of their people, offers to Europe the most sacred pledge of its future tranquillity.

"The object of this union is as simple as it is great and salutary. It does not tend to any political combination-to any change in the relations sanctioned by existing treaties. Calm and consistent in its proceedings,

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"Aix-la-Chapelle, Nov. 15, 1818." it has no other object than the

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maintenance of peace, and the security of those transactions on which the peace was founded

and consolidated.

"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 observation of the principles of the right of nations; principles which, in their application to a state of permanent peace, can alone effectually guarantee the independence 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 governments shall formally claim their interference. The same spirit which will direct their councils, and reign in their diplomatic communications, shall preside 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 acknowledge, that their duties towards God and the people whom they govern, make it peremptory on them to give to

the world, as far as in their power, an example of justice, of concord, 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 morality, whose empire has been but too much enfeebled by the misfortune of the times.

(Signed)" MEtternich.
"RICHELIeu.

"CASTLEREagh.

"WELLINGTON.

"HARDENberg.

"BERNSTOrff.

"NESSELRode. "CAPO D'ISTRIA. "Aix-la-Chapelle, Nov. 15, 1818." This document bears the sig nature of M. Gentz, the Secretary to the Congress.

Act of

15. Munich.---The Union, of the Lutheran and reformed Confessions, in the Bavarian circle of the Rhine, was confirmed by his Majesty on the 10th of October. The chief contents of this document relate to the following points :

A. General Regulations.-The two confessions are fraternally united, under the name of Protestant 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-examination before partaking of the Lord's Supper; it is therefore no longer

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called Confession, but Prepara tion.

With respect to Predestination and Elective Grace, this church expresses its conviction that God has destined all men for salvation, and does not withhold from them the means of attaining it.

It recognises no necessary baptism. These are the few main fundamental principles from which all the other rules for the practice of Divine worship are deduced, viz. C. Rites and Liturgy.

D. Religious scholastic instruction.

E. Property of the Church, its union, administration, and application.

F. Constitution of the Church. G. Religious Discipline. Upon these principles, the Royal Rescript of Oct. 10, declares the union of the Protestant confessions in the circle of the Rhine to be accomplished.

"Kew-palace, Nov. 17. "The Queen's state last night was one of great and imminent danger. Her Majesty continues very ill this morning.

(Signed)" F. MILLMAN.

"H. HALFORD." Her Majesty expired about one o'clock on Tuesday, November 17, 1818, in the 75th year of her age. Her death was owing to a gradual accumulation of water in her limbs and on her chest, which no medicines could relieve, and which, after a long illness which she bore with great fortitude and resignation, closed

her life.

On Saturday evening, about half past 8 o'clock, the leaden coffin for the late Queen was removed from the dining parlour

at Kew-palace, by one of the undertakers and his assistants, to the chamber where she breathed her last, on the east end of the palace, where it was placed on trestles. The remains of the Queen were then placed in the coffin, under the immediate direction and superintendence of Mr. Mash of the Lord Chamberlain's office, and Mr. A. E. Brande, the apothecary to the King's person, in the presence of Mrs. Beckendorff, Miss Beckendorff, and the other females who have been the constant attendants of the Queen, during her long and painful illness, both at the Queen's and Kew Palaces. The body was wrapped in a white satin sheet. Mr. Brande, agreeably to the duty of his office, then proceeded to fill up the coffin with spices; after this, the plumber and his assistants were admitted, and the cover was soldered to the coffin, in the presence of the above-named official persons.

19. The following decree has been issued under the authority of the Grand Inquisitor, who is also private confessor to Ferdinand VII:

ROYAL DECree. In the name of the Holy Trinity, &c.

Whereas it has been made known to us that various publications of an heretical, irreligious, and seditious tendency are in circulation among the subjects of this kingdom; and whereas it is of the last importance that their progress should be arrested, and the authors, publishers, and circulators duly punished, it has been determined that such measures shall be taken instantly as м2

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will most effectually accomplish this purpose.

All persons having in their possession works bearing the following titles shall be brought before the Holy Office, and such punishment inflicted as the case shall seem to require, provided it be not less than solitary imprisonment under the authority of the Holy Office for three months, and the payment of a fine of not less than 25 doubloons. The works prohibited are" The History of the Inquisition;" "Reasons why the Inquisition should be abolished;" "A few Remarks upon the re-establish ment of the Brotherhood of the Order of Jesus;" "The Theory of the Cortes;" "The Necessity of National Representation;" "Observations on the Conduct of several of the Courts of Europe ;" "Patriotic Songs;" "The Difficulties at present to be Encountered."

The greater number of these heretical and seditious productions have been printed in foreign countries, in the Spanish language, and secretly introduced into this kingdom.

A proportionate punishment

GEORGE, P. R.-Whereas by an act passed in the 51st year of his Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to provide for the Adminis tration of the Royal Authority, and for the Care of his Majesty's Royal Person, during the continuance of his Majesty's Illness, and for the Resumption of the Exercise of the Royal Authority by his Majesty, it was amongst other things enacted, that if her Majesty, the Queen, should depart this life during the time that the care of his Majesty's royal person should be committed to her Majesty, according to the provisions of the said Act, the Regent should forthwith order and direct a Proclamation under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be issued and published, declaring the same. And whereas, by another Act, passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to alter and amend certain of the provisions of an Act, passed in the 51st year of his Majesty's reign, intituled An Act to provide for the administration of the Royal Authority, and for the care of his Majesty's Royal

of his Majesty's Illness, and for 'the resumption of the exercise of the Royal Authority by his

will be inflicted upon such indi-Person, during the continuance viduals as have in their custody any foreign journals, newspapers, &c. containing matter against the Government and Institutions of Spain.

Given from Madrid, this 19th day of Nov. A. D. 1818.

A PROCLAMATION. By his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty.

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Majesty," it was, amongst other things, enacted, that if the case should happen in which it was enacted by the said Act passed in the 51st year of his Majesty, that the Regent should forthwith order and direct such Proclamation to be issued and published as aforesaid, and the same should happen upon or after the day appointed

appointed by any writ or sum mons then issued for calling and assembling a new Parliament, and before such new Parliament should have met and sat as a Parliament, then and in such case the Regent should forthwith cause such a Proclamation as aforesaid to be issued and published, declaring that such case had happened, and requiring the new Parliament either to convene and sit at Westminster immediately after such Proclamation should have been published, or upon some day to be mentioned in such Proclamation, and being within sixty days, to be computed from the date of the said Proclamation; and in such case the Parliament so convening and sitting should be and be deemed a Parliament to all intents and purposes, under the provisions of the said last-mentioned Acts: And whereas, the Parliament which was summoned to meet at Westminster on the fourth day of August last, hath not yet met and sat as a Parliament, but stands prorogued to the 29th day of December now next ensuing: and whereas her Majesty the Queen departed this life on the 17th day of November instant, during the time that the care of his Majesty's Royal person was committed to her Majesty: Now we do hereby by this Proclamation (ordered and directed to be issued and published, and issued and published under the Great Seal of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) de clare, that her Majesty the Queen departed this life on the 17th day of November instant; and we do, in the name and on

the behalf of his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, publish, declare, and require, that the new Parliament shall be held, convene, and sit at Westminster on the 14th day of January now next ensu ing, for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs; and the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly on the said 14th day of January now next ensuing: and we do hereby farther publish and declare, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, and by and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, that the said Parliament shall, on the 29th day of December now next ensuing, be further prorogued to the said 14th day of January now next ensuing and we have, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, given order to the Chancellor of that part of the united kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a writ patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, for proroguing the same accordingly.

Given at the Court at Carltonhouse, this 19th day of November, 1818, in the 59th year of his Majesty's reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING. On Saturday afternoon, the 21st, at half past three o'clock, an accident of a very serious nature occurred in Lombardstreet, arising out of the fire which took place the preceding night, at the house of Mr. Carrol, the lottery-office keeper, which had

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