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64 international rule. The following is the history of that famous Remonstrance.

Frederick II. had seized Silesia from Maria Theresa, and, by the Treaties of Breslau and Dresden, had taken over with this province certain debts secured on this province and owing to Englishmen. But on the ground that England had seized Prussian vessels engaged in contraband trade and taken enemies' cargoes out of them, the Prussian king refused to pay the Silesian indemnity until the counter claims of the Prussian subjects, who had sustained these maritime losses, had been satisfied. Upon this, the Duke of Newcastle, who was the English Minister, wrote a letter (founded on the report of a Commission issued to examine into these claims, on which Sir George Lee, Judge of the Prerogative Court; Dr. Paul; H.M.'s Advocate-General; Sir Dudley Ryder, Attorney-General; and Mr. Murray, Solicitor-General, sat) of so conclusive a kind that