royal city of Aachen, and the famous bishoprics of Worms and Speyer. ♦The _Reichsdeputationshauptschluss_, 1803.♦ A number of princes thus lost all or part of their dominions, and it was presently agreed that they should compensate themselves within the lands which remained to the kingdom at the expense of the free cities and the ecclesiastical princes. ♦End of the Ecclesiastical principalities.♦ The great German hierarchy of princely bishops and abbots now came to an end, with a solitary exception. ♦The Prince-Primate of Regensburg.♦ As the ancient metropolis of Mainz had passed to France, the see of its archbishop was removed to _Regensburg_, where, under the title of _Prince-Primate_, he remained an Elector and Arch-Chancellor of the Empire. ♦Salzburg a secular electorate.♦ _Salzburg_ became a secular electorate. ♦The Free Cities.♦ The other ecclesiastical states were annexed by the neighbouring princes, and of the free cities six only were left. These were the Hanseatic towns of _Lübeck_, _Bremen_, and _Hamburg_, and the inland towns of _Frankfurt_, _Nürnberg_, and _Augsburg_. ♦New Electorates.♦ Besides Salzburg, three new Electorates arose, _Württemberg_, _Baden_, and _Hessen-Cassel_. None of these new Electors ever chose any King or Emperor. ♦Peace of Pressburg, 1805. | Kingdom of Württemberg and Bavaria.♦ The next war led to the Peace of Pressburg, in which the Electors of Bavaria, Württemberg, and Baden appear as allies of France, and by which those of Bavaria and Württemberg are acknowledged as Kings. ♦They divide the western lands of Austria.♦ Austria was now wholly cut off from south-western Germany. Württemberg and Baden divided her Swabian possessions, while Tyrol, Trent, Brixen, together with the free city of Augsburg, fell to the lot of Bavaria. ♦Grand Duchy of Würzburg.♦ Austria received Salzburg; its prince removed himself and his electorate to Würzburg, and a _Grand Duchy of Würzburg_ was formed to compensate its Elector.