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tion of all this, the landgrave fiiall take no toll for warlike itores and provifions, and other efFeds of that nature, which may pafs through his country.

VII. The king fhail guaranty all the eftates which his moft fer?ne' highnefs pcfi'efl'ed before the French feized them, and all the rights of the houfe of He/Te Caffel.

VIII. His majeily fhaH guaranty to t^.?t prince the afl of afTurance given him by his fon the hereditary prince with regard to religion; and Ihal! not fufTer it to be violated by any perfon, or under any pretext.

IX. The moil chriftian king {hall ufe his intere!l with the em- peror and the emprefs queen, that, in confideration of the immenfe Icffes and damages his moft ferene highnefs hath fuffered fince the French entered hi^ country, and of thegreat fums he lofes with Eng- 3and, in arrears and fuhfiJies, by this accommodstion with his ir.oll chriftian majefty, he may beexcuf- ed from furnifhing his contingent to rhe army of the empire, and from paying the Roman monihi granted by the dyet of the empir°,

X. If, in refentmentof this con- vention, the ertares of his moll fe- rene highnefs (hall be attacked, the king fhall give the moil fpeedy and eiHcacious fuccours.

Tranflation of a memorial prefented in November to the dvet of the empire, by Baron Gimmengen, elecloral rriniller of Brunfwiclc Lunenbcurg.

Kis i.mpe.nal majefty hnth been pleafed to commanicate to the dyec of the empire, by a pretended moll gracious decreeof the Au lie council, dated the 28th of Auguft laft, .man. dates iiTued the 21ft of the fame

month, on pain of th? ban of the empire, and with avocatory letters thereto annexed, againft his majefty the King of Great Britain my moft gracious maiier, and alfo againft Ibme others of" the moft refpeftable princes of the Germanic empire.

There is not an example of this kind in the hillory of the empire. His Britannic majefty, during the one and thirty ye.irs of his glorious reign, hath obl-?rved fo unimpeach- able a conduct tcvards all his co- eftates of the empire, without di- ftinflion of religion, that no prince of the empire hach received greater proofs of efteem and confidence than he can produce. His maj'^fty hath, as much as the we.keft ftates, always obferved right aad juftice.

On the death of the emperor Charles VI. he beheld the time, which wiil hz a. famous aera in the hiftory of the houfe of Auftria, when the crown of France poured numerous armies into the empire to exterminate th^t houfe; and make itielfmafter of Germany. His ma- jefty, in his double capacity of king and eiedor, put himfelf in the breach; he l^d in perfon the auxiliary army of her majefty the emprefs queen, the greateft part of which was compofed <.f his own troops; at the battle of Deitingea he expofed his facred perlon for that princefs, and his royal high- nefs the Duke of Cumberland his fon, ftill bears the fears of wounds there received.

The year 1745, when his prefent imperial mj Ity was chofen Em- peror, is ftill lecent in the memory of all the ftites of the empire, as well as the p^ins which his Britan- nic majefty took upon that occa- iion. He pujchaleJ the preferva-

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