droits essentiels qui ont été antérieurement de la compétence des différentes Assemblées Provinciales; nommément, le droit de consentir les Taxes nécessaires aux besoins de l'Etat, et de les administrer conjointement avec le Gouvernement et sous sa surveillance, le droit d'être consultée sur les Lois générales qui doivent être rendues dans le Royaume, et celui de nous adresser des Représentations sur les objets qui sont soumis à ses délibérations.

VII. Les autres rapports de l'Assemblée Générale des Etats et des Députés qui doivent y être envoyés, du Maréchal Héréditaire du Pays, des Présidens, des Syndics, et Secrétaires Généraux, les Instructions sur la conduite à suivre dans les séances de l'Assemblée, et la manière de traiter les objets portés à ses délibérations, de même que les dispositions relatives à l'ajournement et à la dissolution de l'Assemblée, ont été fixés dans un Règlement particulier, que nous ferons remettre à notre fidèle Assemblée des Etats lors d'ouverture, pour lui servir de direction.

VIII. Nous nous réservons d'introduire, d'après les leçons de l'expérience, dans l'organisation de l'Assemblée Générale des Etats, les modifications dont le temps pourrait avoir montré la nécessité. Il s'entend aussi de soi-même, que, si la Confédération Germanique se déterminait, en donnant une interprétation ultérieure et authentique du XIIIe Article de l'Acte Fédératif,* à admettre des principes incompatibles avec les dispositions ci-dessus, celles-ci devraient être modifiées conformément aux Résolutions de la Diète.

Nous avons en l'Assemblée des Etats constituée par les présentes, la confiance parfaite que les Membres des 2 Chambres sentiront toute l'étendue des devoirs importans qui leur sont imposés, et que, sans se laisser guider par des considérations d'intérêt personnel, fidèles à leur serment et animés tous du même zéle patriotique, ils n'auront en vue que le bien du Pays, et qu'ils s'empresseront de réunir leurs efforts aux nôtres, pour resserrer de plus en plus les liens de l'union et de la confiance mutuelle entre toutes les parties du Royaume, en délibérant avec une activité constante et régulière dans une même Assemblée d'Etats, sur toutes les affaires qui concernent le Royaume entier, d'affermir toujours davantage le bien-être de tous les Habitans du Pays, et d'assurer ainsi de plus en plus la satisfaction générale.

Donné à Carlton House, le 7 Décembre de l'an 1819, le 60e de la Règne de Sa Majesté.

GEORGE, P. R.

Acte sur la Constitution Fédérative de l'Allemagne, signé à Vienne le 8 Juin, 1815, (Annexe No. 9 au Traité Général du Congrès.) Art. XIII, "Il y aura des Assemblées d'Etats dans tous les Pays de la Confédération."

DECLARATION of the King of Spain, relative to the Punishment of Foreigners who shall assist the Insurgents in Spanish America.—14th January, 1819. (Translation.)

The Secretary of the War Department to the First Secretary of State and of General Affairs.

MOST EXCELLENT SIR, Madrid, 14th January, 1819. THE King, our Lord, before whom I lost no time in laying what your Excellency communicated to me, in consequence of the Royal Order of the 23rd of last November, respecting the urgent necessity of adopting measures calculated to obviate the evils which arise, in the Transatlantic Dominions, from the circumstance of such of His Majesty's Possessions in those Countries as are in a state of insurrection being resorted to by Individuals, the Subjects of Foreign Powers, for the purpose of taking part in the Rebellion, which they assist, either by means of their personal services, or their intrigues, or by supplying the Insurgents with arms, ammunition, ships, and other auxiliaries of War, and without which there would exist no such insurrection in several of those Provinces,-His Majesty has been pleased to order the Supreme Council of War to consider of the measures which it may be desirable to adopt, grounded upon the information on that subject, of which the Department referred to is already in possession.

In consequence whereof, that Council, on the 22nd of December ult. presented a Report, representing the absolute necessity of punishing, with all the rigour of the Laws, those Foreigners who should be taken with arms in their hands, within the Dominions of America, and under the banners of the Insurgents, no less than those who should be found furnishing them with supplies of arms, ammunition, or ships, for fomenting the devouring flame of Insurrection, which unhappily prevails in some parts of those valuable Possessions; their intention being, by such nefarious and detestable means, to erect their fortunes upon the ruin and total destruction of those unsuspecting Subjects of His Majesty. The Council represented, likewise, that justice, policy, and equity, equally called for the adoption of this measure, notwithstanding the sentiments of humanity by which the King is universally known to be actuated; inasmuch as the lenity and pardon which His Majesty, exercising his Sovereign authority, and dispensing with the rigour of the Laws, has deigned to grant to those of his unhappy Subjects, whom he wishes to treat as misguided children, that, listening to perfidious suggestions, have swerved from the path of honour and fidelity, and not as malefactors convicted of the unutterable crime of treason, ought not to be extended to intrusive Foreigners; since to them are not only not applicable the considerations which prompted His Majesty's Royal mind to exercise clemency towards his Subjects,

but, as is also well known, those spontaneous acts of His Majesty's mercy, were intended only in favour of those contemplated in them, to the exclusion of all such Persons as neither were, nor could be, the objects of His Majesty's humanity, at the time of his granting such pardons; and that, consequently, this distinction and construction must be understood to apply to the Royal Order transmitted to the Viceroys and Captains General of America, dated the 30th April of last year, directing them to consider any Foreigners taken in the revolted Provinces, with arms in their hands, and under the banners of the Insurgents, as liable only to the same punishments with Natives of the Country whom they had joined, and in whose behalf they exerted themselves; and, finally, the Council set forth, that, according to the principles laid down by the Law of Nations, and universally admitted, any Foreigner, entering of his own accord the Territory of any Sovereign, with a view to disturb the public peace, or to commit excesses and crimes of any description whatever, becomes, by those transgressions, amenable to the authority and jurisdiction of the Country in which he offends,-a consequence which, under such circumstances, his own Government could not prevent, nor could it lay claim to his person.

Taking into consideration all which, the King, our Lord, has been pleased to declare, as a general regulation, that all Foreign Adventurers, taken with arms in their hands in his Ultramarine Dominions, under the standards of the Insurgents, or in the act of supplying them with auxiliaries of War, shall inevitably suffer capital punishment, with confiscation of all their effects found in His Majesty's Dominions; which punishment is denounced by the Laws against such Delinquents, who cannot be included in the acts of grace and pardon which His Majesty has granted, or may hereafter grant, in favour of his Subjects, for the reasons above stated.

Which, by the King's Order, I communicate to your Excellency for your information, and for such purposes as may be thought proper. God preserve your Excellency many years. FRANCISCO DE EGUIA.

The Secretary, ad interim,

of the Department for the Affairs of State.

ORDINANCE of The King of Denmark, prohibiting the enlistment of Danish Subjects in the Service of Foreign Powers.-Fredericksberg, 9th June, 1819.

(Translation.)

WE, Frederick the VIth, by the Grace of God, King of Denmark, &c. &c. &c. do hereby make known to all men, that we have found it

expedient further to fix the punishment for the Foreign unlawful enlistment of Soldiers in this Kingdom, as well as for those who cause themselves to be enlisted for Foreign Military Service.

In respect of which we, by these presents, ordain as follows:—

I. He or they who, without our command or permission, undertake any enlistment of Soldiers in this Kingdom, for Foreign Military Service, or procure Recruits from our Realms for Foreign Recruiting Officers, shall be punished by hard labour in the nearest House of Correction, or by slavery, of the most rigorous description, from 3 to 8 years, according to the circumstances connected with the offence.

If he or they be subject to a Foreign Government, and have not acquired the right to be considered as belonging to our Realms, he or they shall be banished from the Kingdom as soon as the period of punishment shall have expired; in addition to which it shall at the same time be signified to him or them, that if he or they be afterwards found in our Realms, he or they will be punished with the loss of liberty during life.

In determining the punishment according to the above-mentioned rule, the Foreigner, on the other hand, shall be considered with more indulgence than the Native, who may render himself guilty of the same crime; and, when other circumstances connected with such unlawful enlistment may justify a mitigation of the punishment, this may, with regard to the Foreigner, be diminished to labour in a House of Correction, or imprisonment in a Fortress, for 2 years.

II. The punishments enacted in the preceding Article shall be applied, whether the Offenders be Natives of the Country, or Foreigners who sojourn in these Realms, who have made enlistments for Foreign Military Service; and in fixing the punishment for Foreigners who undertake such unlawful enlistments of Soldiers, no regard will be paid to the authority which may possibly have been granted to them by any Foreign Power.

III. For one who causes himself to be enlisted for Foreign Military Service, by any unauthorized Recruiting Officer, the punishment shall be, either imprisonment, with bread and water, for certain periods of 5 days each, or labour in a House of Correction, or imprisonment in a Fortress, to the extent of 3 years, according to the circumstances of the case.

IV. The enlistment shall be considered as completed, so soon as a person is engaged for Foreign Military Service, and, to establish this fact, it is not requisite that he be already conveyed out of the Country, nor that he have departed on his journey, nor that he have received hand-money, regimentals, or pay.

The mere attempt at unlawful Recruiting, as well as participation in this offence, shall be visited with a proportionably less severe punishment than that which will be applied to him who, being a principal,

commits the crime.

5. If the unlawful enlistment of Soldiers be made at a time when the Country is involved in War, the Recruiter as well as the Recruit shall, in that case, be condemned to hard labour for 8, 10, or 12 years, or, according to circumstances, during their life-time.

But if a Levy for the Military Service of an Enemy have taken place, such Treason shall be punished according to the Laws.

By which, all whom it may concern, have most dutifully to guide themselves.

Given at our Palace of Fredericksberg, this 9th June, 1819, under our Royal Hand and Seal.

KAAS.

(L. S.)

FREDERICK R.

CONVENTION of Limits between The United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians.-Signed at Washington, the 27th February, 1819.

JAMES MONROE,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

To all and singular to whom these presents shall come; Greeting. WHEREAS certain Articles of a Convention, between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, were concluded and signed at the City of Washington, on the 27th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1819, by John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, on the part of the said United States, and certain Chiefs and Head Men of the said Nation, on the part and in behalf of the said Nation; which Articles are in the words following, to wit:

Articles of a Convention made between John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, being specially authorized therefor, by the President of The United States, and the Undersigned Chiefs and Head Men of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, duly authorized and empowered by said Nation, at the City of Washington, on the 27th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1819.

Whereas a greater part of the Cherokee Nation have expressed an earnest desire to remain on this side of the Mississippi, and being desirous, in order to commence those measures which they deem necessary to the civilization and preservation of their Nation, that the Treaty between The United States and them, signed the 8th of July, 1817, might, without further delay, or the trouble or expense of taking the Census, as stipulated in the said Treaty, be finally adjusted, have offered to cede to The United States a Tract of Country, at least as extensive as that which they probably are entitled to under its provi[1818-19.]

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