Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

RATISBON, December 26.

In the sitting of the Diet on the 22d inst. all those votes of the states which were not given, were ultimately collected.

The Austrian minister voted like the Bohemian.

The Protocol being then opened for a general concluum, the concluum of the college of electors, as the two superior colleges of the empire, who gave their assent by a great majority of votes, was then taken for its basis.

All the free imperial cities joined in their votes with the two superior colleges.

The opinion of the Elector of Hanover found very few converts; and the proposition of the elector of Mentz, made by Baron Straus, was so powerfully seconded by the Prussian and Bavarian Palatine Minister, that it passed by a great majority of suffrages.

The following are the principal points of the concluum:

I. That it is becoming the present situation of affairs, while agreeable to the resolution of the Diet, the preparations for a future campaign shall be continued in the empire, serious overtures for an equitable and decent peace ought to be made.

2. That the Germanic empire is in hopes, that the French nation for the honor of suffering humanity and considering that it has given cause for the present war (which has only been carried on by the empire for the defence of its constitution, the preservation of its integrality, and the recovery of the spiritual and temporal privileges of the several states of the empire; but by no means for the sake of intermeddling with the internal concerns of France, or for that of making conquests) will now finally feel itself inclined, after a devastation which has lasted so many years, to desist in the same manner from this forced war with the empire, and to co-operate by proper means to effect an equitable, decent and acceptable peace.

3. That it is, notwithstanding, no less advisable and expedient to prepare in case the farther continuation of the war should become unavoidable with a general resistance on the part of the empire, which shall be reinforced as much as possible, and to prepare for that purpose, everything that shall be required for a future campaign, by virtue of the decrees of the empire and the more urgent dangers of the country.

That in this respect, the emperor is to be requested to use his best offices, in the farther co-operation of the empire, and with the assistance of the king of Prussia, to obtain a previous armistice, which may contribute to obtain a speedy and acceptable peace, agreeably to the Germanic constitution, and corresponding with the stipulations of the treaty of Westphalia.