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O one is ignorant of the Hereditary Rights of Our Royal Houe to the Throne of ''Gr. Br.'' it is needles to enter into a particular Detail thereof. All Europe is acquainted with the Troubles, which have o often diturbed thee Kingdoms, and the Wrongs We have uffered. She knows that Length of Time cannot alter the Contitution of the State, nor Ground a Precription againt the fundamental Laws. She cannot ee, without Atonihment, that We hould remain ilent, while the Powers in War are holding a Treaty for a Peace, which may, without regard to the Jutice of Our Caue, (in which all Sovereigns are concerned) agree upon, and tipulate Articles, prejudicial to Our Interets, and to thoe of the Subjects of Our Mot Honoured Lord and Father.

For thee Caues, authorized by the Examples of Our Mot Honoured Grand-father, and Our Mot Honoured Lord and Father, We, as well in the Name of Our Mot Honoured Lord and Father, who has given to Us full Powers, by committing to Us the Regency of His Kingdoms, as alo, in Our own and proper Name, as natural Heir to the Crown, protet, in the mot olemn Manner, and in the bet Form, that may be done, againt all that may be aid, done or tipulated in the Aembly now held at Aix—la-Chapelle, or in any other Aembly, which in Conequence thereof may be held in any other Place, to the Prejudice or Diminution of the Lawful Rights of Our Mot Honoured Lord and Father, of Our own, or thoe of the Princes or Princees of Our Royal Houe, that are, or hall be born.

We protet in like Manner againt all Conventions, which may be tipulated in the Aemblies aforeaid, which hall be contrary to the Engagements before made with Us.

Declaring by thee Preents, That We look upon, and hall ever look upon, as null, void, and ineffectual, all that may be agreed upon and tipulated, which may tend to the Diminution of Our jut Rights, and the Recognition of any other Peron whatoever in Quality of Sovereign of the Realms of ''Gr. Br. other than the Peron of the Mot High and Mot Excellent P. J.'' III. Our Mot Honoured Lord and Father, and in Default of him, to the Peron of his next Heir, conformably to the fundamental Laws of ''Gr. Br.''

We declare to all the Subjects of Our Mot Honoured Lord and Father, and more particularly to thoe, who have lately given Us uch trong Proofs of their Attachment to Our Royal Family, and the antient Contitution of the State; that nothing hall alter the warm and incere Love, which Our Birth inpires Us with for them; and that the jut ene which We have of their Fidelity, Zeal and Courage, will never be effaced from Our Hearts; that, far from litening to any Propoal which may tend to annul or weaken thee indioluble Bands which unite Us, We look upon Ourelves, and hall always look upon Ourelves, under the mot intimate and indipenible Obligation, to be contantly attentive to every Thing that may contribute to their Happines, and that We hall be ever ready to pill even the lat Drop of Our Blood, to deliver them from a foreign Yoke.

We protet and declare, that the Defects, which may be in this preent Protetation, hall not hurt or prejudice Our Royal Houe, and We reerve to Ourelves all Our Rights and Actions, which remain afe and entire.

Given at Paris, 16th July 1748.

C. P. R.