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ELECTOR OF COLOGNE's WILL.

FRANCKFORT Aug. 18.

The following is a copy of the will of his royal highness the Elector of Cologne, which was opened on the 28th of July:--

In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen.

We, Maximilian Francis, archbishop and elector of Cologne, prince royal of Hungary and Bohemia, archduke of Austria, grand master of the Teutonic order, prince bishop of Munster, &c.

BE it known to all men, and particularly those whom it concerns, considering that all men are mortal, at the hour at which the Lord may be pleased to call us unto himself is uncertain, we have
Resolved the day, month, and year hereafter designated, while still possessing strength of body and mind, to express here (according to the faculty granted to us in the general chapter of the Teutonic order held in 1769), our last will, and to regulate how our succession shall be disposed of after our death. We therefore declare the present testament to be our last will, or whatever denomination may be given to it, that it may be completely valid, and carried into due execution. It. When the moment arrives when, according to the decrees of the Most High, our soul shall be separated from the body, we commit the former into the hands of our Saviour and Redeemer, we consign our body to the earth from which it was taken; but we particularly order that it shall be buried according to custom, with as little expense as possible, in such of our countries, archbishopric or bishopric, we shall happen to die. But in case our decease shall take place at a distance from our countries, and if it shall happen in the hereditary states of Austria, we desire to be interred as our brothers and sisters, in our family vault in the monastery of the Fathers Capuchins at Vienna, or otherwise in the nearest burying place, without pomp, and with a plain epitaph. 2d. In regard to the temporal succession, as the first fundamental rule of a will is to establish an heir, we constitute and name, in that quality, the third son of our dear brother the Archduke Ferdinand, viz. our nephew Maximilian, archduke of Austria, to whom we gave our name on the baptismal font, and who was admitted by us a member of the Teutonic order, in the bailiwick of Franconia: we constitute him residuary legatee of all our temporal property in ready money, capitals by contract, or otherwise, gold or silver plate, jewels, and precious stones, and all other objects belonging to us, including what we have successively acquired in money from our treasury, and which is our private property. All these effects shall belong to our residuary legatee, the archduke Maximilian, to enjoy it unconditionally, in such manner that his entrance or non-entrance into the Teutonic order shall in this respect produce no change. 3d. We bequeath to each of our chapters as follows, viz. To the superior chapter of Cologne, to the Teutonic order, and the chapter of Munster, all the sums found on the day of our decease in the treasuries of the country, and in all others belonging to the order (Frendenthal included) as well as the sums not yet received and to be received, and in general every thing we have not yet levied, and in such manner that all these sums shall remain to the respective principalities, and in their particular treasuries, without our residuary legatee having any right to set up any claim to them; and in order to prevent any stagnation in the progress of public business, and of the usual payments. Here follow eight articles, which contain the following dispositions. By the 4th, the elector leaves to Cologne, Munster, and Mergentheim, the valuable articles left there. By the 5th, he bequeaths 10,000 florins to the chapter of Munster, and the same sum to Cologne, and as much to the Teutonic order, for the purpose of causing solemn service to be performed for him on the day of his death. By the 6th, he settles an annual pension of 1200 florins on his Valet de Chambre, as elector. By the 7th, he recommends to his successor his other servants. The 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th articles, relate to the execution of his will. His royal highness the archduke Charles, as executor, is ordered to cause a statement of his whole property to be made out; and prince Maximilian, the residuary legatee, has assigned this charge to Mr. M. Mayer, councillor of the court.