The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

LONDON, September 4.

DIET AT RATISBON.

The following is the rescript by which his Imperial majesty declines adopting, in conformity to the usages of the general diet of the empire the mode pointed out for the final adjustment of the articles respecting the empire:

In several votes it has already been anticipated, that his Imperial majesty might have motives of sufficient importance for his reluctance to accept this commission. Solely directed by the reasons alledged, and not to risk a diminution of the dignity of the head of the empire by an unsuccessful undertaking, his Imperial majesty could not agree to accept the commission of the general diet, nor to approve in his quality of supreme head of the empire, of that part of the concluum. His Imperial majesty, however, being always accustomed, and ever anxious, not to transgress the boundaries traced by the German Constitution, gives his assent to the co-operation of the empire, in the usual form of a deliberation of the diet of the empire: since the majority of the states having decided upon the different modes of co-operation on the part of the empire, viz. 1st, the full powers to be given to his Imperial majesty; 2dly. an extraordinary deputation of the empire, and 3dly. the deliberation of the diet itself. If by rejecting the two first modes proposed by several states, and among others, by his Imperial majesty, in the quality of a state of the empire, in favor of the co-operation of the diet, assembled under its Supreme head, the latter has no longer any authority to approve of one of the two first, modes of co-operation, though they might be very well calculated for accelerating the work of peace, which still remains to be accomplished.

The principal objects which still remain to be adjusted by a special convention to complete the peace, are, in other respects, known from the treaty of peace at Luneville, which has been reciprocally ratified: and from what his Imperial majesty knows of the negociation for the peace of Luneville, in order correctly to examine and decide upon those points, nothing more is necessary than an historical acquaintance with the law of nations and statistics, within the reach of all; and they may be ratified in the most secure manner by those who have a particular interest in their discussion.

In this state of affairs, in which the diet of the empire has given a preference to the states in the diet assembled by the empire under its chief, the relations which exist between the states of the empire and its supreme chief, and the manner of treating the affairs of Europe, require (and this will be one of the first transactions of the Imperial diet) that a full conclusion on the objects to be regulated for completing the peace, by a particular convention, should be submitted to the ratification of his Imperial majesty as promptly as a proper discussion of this affair may permit. His Imperial majesty waits with paternal solicitude for this concluum, which will not fail to satisfy his expectations, if the general diet in forming it, be guided by the regulations laid down with so much wisdom in its last concluum.

Done at Vienna, and sealed with the Seal of his imperial majesty, June 26, 1801.