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Buckebourg. The very nature of this deliverance, and the prudence and bravery with which it hath been effeded, have acquired im- mortal glory to his moll ferene higbnefsDuke Ferdinand of Brunf- wick Lunenbourg (who doth not command the King's army as a Pruflian general) a glory, which is the greater, as it io more laud- able for that prince to have deli- vered from fuch heavy and un- juft oppreffion the dominions of a king from whofe family he is de- fcended, and principalities in which he drew his rtrft breath, where his anceftors have reigned, and where the duke his brother ftill reigns. It is with an equally juft right that this duke, with the duke of Saxe Gotha, the Landgrave of Hefle Caffel, and the Count of Schaumbourg Lippe, put their troops into his majelty's pay. Pof- terity will hardly believe, that at a time when Auftrian, Palatine, and Wirtemberg auxiliaries were employed to invade the countries belonging to the ftates of the em- pire, other members of the Ger- manic body who employed auxili- aries in their defence, were threat- ened with the ban. His majelly ordered the Englifh troops to be fent over, and polTefiion to be ta- ken of Embden, in his quality of king ; and hath no occafion to give account thereof to any. Mean while the laws of the empire per- mit the ftates thereof to make ufe of foreign troops in their own de- fence ; they forbid only the in- troduftion of them into the empire to invade the dominions of an- other, as the emprefs queen hath done.

In the third and lad place, his majefty the King of Great Bri- lain, Eledorof Brunfwick Lunen-

bourg, fent minifters, particular!/ to the Palatinate court and that of Cologne, to divert them from join- ing in the defigns of France a- gainft his dominions. It cannot therefore be doubted, that it would have been highly agreeable to him, if thofe courts had taken mea- fures that would have freed him from the burthen of the war. But none can expedl that his ma- jefty fhould with indifference fee himfelf treated as an enemy by his co-ellates. The Elector of Co- logne and the Bifliop of Liege had no troops that were wanted in the French army : but, in conii- deration of fubfidies, opened to it the gates of their towns, and gave it all the afiillance in their power; without which that army could not at that time have proceeded fo far as the eleftoral eftates, where the Auftrian and Palatine troops behaved much worfe than the French themfelves. How can it be expedled that his majefty, after God hath bleffed his arms with fuccefs, fhould not refent this treatment ? The laws of the em- pire forbid the attacking of the Itates of the empire ; but they permit defence againft, and the purfuit of thofc who by their in- vafion have violated the public peace.

If the crown of France be free to ravage the dominions of the Duke of Brunfwick and the Land- grave of Hefle- CafTel, becaufe they have given the king auxiliary troops : if the emprefs queen may, for the afliftance Ihe hath lent the French king to attack the king's dominions, appropriate to herfelf half of the contributions raifed there ; his majefty ought to be equally permitted to make thofe ftates, who have favoured the unjuft

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