The King of Wirtemberg abandoned his capital with precipitation, on
the 24th instant, leaving an address to his people praying them not to force him to accept the suzerainty of Prussia as Imperial head of the United Empire. On the same day, however, the President of the Ministry an- nounced to the Chamber of Deputies that his Majesty had "ceded to their wishes."
" He accepts, in accordance with his Ministry, the Constitution of the Empire of Germany, including the chapter concerning the question of the Chief of the Empire, and the solution which it is to receive in the sense of the Constitution." His plenipotentiary should say that he had "no objection to offer, in the event of the King of Prussia, who does not wish to accept the Imperial dignity, placing himself, under present circumstances and for a time, at the head of Germany, with the consent of the National Assembly."
t. The German papers—which are not of the best credit, however—state that the Hungarians gained a pitched battle with Welden's army at Gran, on the 21st instant, taking 20 cannons and 2,000 prisoners; and that Comorn is relieved.
Accounts have been received that on the 21st instant Leghorn followed the example of the rest of Tuscany, and yielded to the authority of the Grand Duke; applying to the Foreign Consuls for their favourable in- tervention.
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