The National Republican And Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser

DECLARATION OF PRUSSIA.
MADE TO THE GERMAN DIET ON THE SIXTH OF
DECEMBER, 1832.

It is known to the most Serene Diet that
Great Britain and France have projected coer-
cive measures against Holland, in order to put
into execution the twenty-four Articles of the
treaty of London, dated 12th Nov. 1831, in con-
formity to the modifications which have been
made by ulterior negotiations.

Although these coercive measures, according
to the terms of a Convention concluded between
the two said Powers, are limited to the capture
of the citadel of Antwerp, it is impossible in case
of resistance on the part of Holland, to con-
ceive such a state of things without war, and
to look upon this war between Holland and the
two Powers as, in the course of events, without
extreme danger to the general peace of Europe.

Austria, Prussia, and Russia, have not failed
to take steps to oppose those measures of con-
straint against an independent State like Hol-
land, at the same time that those three powers
have refused to take part in or to approve of
them.

However, as Great Britain and France, in
their own position, and their relations with Bel-
gium, think they have motives to persevere in
their resolutions when once taken, the under-
signed Representative of Prussia, as a conse-
quence of the confidential communication made
some time since to the Federal Legations, has
been authorized to be caused to be entered in
the Protocol of the Diet that orders have been
given by the King his master, that the seventh
corps d'armée, which until now has been station-
ed in Westphalia, shall pass the Rhine, and take
position between Aix-la-Chapelle and Gueldres,
in order to cover the frontiers on the right bank
of the Meuse, opposite to Belgium and Holland;
and at the same time that the eighth corps sta-
tioned on the Rhine shall serve as a corps de re-
serve in support of this force.

Information of the meaning of this measure of
precaution has already been given to Great
Britain and France by Prussia, to the effect
that the Meuse shall not be passed, or the right
bank of that river compromised in any way
whatever, by the French, Dutch, or Belgian
troops who may be at war on the subject of the
citadel of Antwerp.

By virtue of superior orders the undersigned
communicates the preceding for the information
of the Diet.

(Signed)
NAGLER.

Frankfort, December 6, 1832