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employing in the proceedings on troops into Germany, and making

this occafton, a ftyle proper only to them take poiTeffion of the city of

be ufed to a Tufcan or an Auftrian Embden, and employing the aux-

fubjeft. iliary troops of fome other ftates

The public has already judged of the empire: And, 3dly, It is

of thefe proceedings, and hiftory complained that contributions had

will tranfmit them to pofterity, been exadled in his majefty's

without difguife, but with indeli- name of divers Hates of the em-

ble colours. pire.

His Britannic majeflyllill retains With regard to the firft charge, the fame veneration for the Ger- it is very true, in the delihera- manic body : that refpecl peculiar tions held at the dyet of the em- to the houfe of Brunfwick Lunen- pire the beginning of lair year, ic bourg, which vvill always hold it was given as his majefty's opini- inviolable, is become habitual to on, as well as that of mofl of his his majefty in particular : accord- Proteftant co-e(tates, that the pre- lUgly he again hath recourfe, in fent troubles fliould be amicably quality of eledor, to the dyet of terminated. His majefty in giv- the empire by means of this memo- ing ihis opinion, had, as ufual, no rial, though previoufly referving to other view than what equity and himfelfa power to do it hereafter the good of the Germanic em- in a more ample manner. The pire feemed to him to reouire. records of the empire fhew what he Whatever judgment fhall be form- has done for Germany in fuch a ed of the unhappy war that hatli manner, that at leaft it cannot yet broke out, the public will always be forgotten in that country. He remember, that by a bare declara- hopes that upon this occafion it tion of her majefty the emprefs will have fome weight, the rather queen, ' That flie would not at- as his high co-eftates will eafily * tack hisPruilian majefty,' therup- confider, that what is now endea- ture would have been avoided, and voured to be done to his majefty, the effufion of much blood, as may one dav, and perhaps fooner well as the defolation of Germa- than they think, be done to them- ny, prevented. The ftates that felves. have fuffered by the calamities of His majefty, as eleftor, is charg- the war, may judge whether the ed, ift. With not conforming to way that was taken was the fhorteft the refolutions taken the ijch of for the re-eftabliftiment of peace, January, and the 9th of May, laft fo much to be defired ; and whe- year; but on the contrary, refuf- ther it were not to be willied that ing his concurrence, and declaring laying afide all private views, his for a neutrality. 2dly, With giv- Britannic majefty's propofal had ing fuccours, aid, and afliftance, to been followed. his majefty the King of Pruflia, It is true, his majefty took no entering into an alliance with that part in ihe refolutions, which were prince, joining his troops to thofe contrary to his feniiments. But of Pruffia, under the command of the laws of the empire have not a general in the ferviceof his Pruf- thereby received the leaft infrinoe- fian majefty, of fending Engliih men:. The queftion, whether in X mate'