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As in the firft momentof the con- clufion, feveral particulars and ex- planations in favour of the Hanove- rians and their auxiliaries h.^.d been omitted, the Duke of Curnberland two days after, and by the media- tion of the Count de Lynar, defired fuch omiffions might be fupplied by fome feparate articles, which Mar- shal Richelieu made no difficulty of granting.

After fome remarks on this con- vention, they proceed thus :

The king, fuch was his zeal for his allies and for the empire, approved of the Mar(hal de Riche- lieu's condudl, and to ftrengthen the capitulation, propofed the add- ing of fome explications, which fhould fo clearly fix its meaning, as to obviate any mifreprelentations. Thefe explications were of the fol- lowing tenor.

1. That the ceflation of hoftili- ties fhould laft during the whole time of the prefent war.

2. That the Hanoverian troops which were to go on the other fide of the Elbe into the duchy of Lawenburg, (hould not come out of it, and, together with the troops remaining on this fide, fhould not commit any hoftility neither againft the king, nor againft his allies ; and that the French troops likewife fhould not commit any hoftilities againft them.

3. That no Engllfh troops fhould be admitted into the duchies of Bremen and Verden.

4. That the troops, both the Hanoverians and thofe of the av.xi- liaries, fhould not ferve during the prefent war, either againft the king, or againft his allies, nor join thofe of the King of England, nor thofe of his allies.

Had there on the fide of the court of Hanover been the fame

good faith as on the king's fide, thefe explications would have met with no difhcu'cy.

The fenfe they offer had been contained in the conventions of the 8th and loth of September, either in equivalent terms, or by a natural inferetice 5 and fojuft were they, that the Count de Lynar, to whom they were delivered, judged them to be the true meaning in which the convention had been under- ftood, and the court of Copenha- gen was of the fame opinion.

They then endeavoured to fhew, that thefe explications were virtu- ally contained in the convention ; that, though not agreed to, the convention remained in full force j and that the Danifh minifter was of this opinion. Afrer this they go into a long and tedious account of the behaviour of the Hanoverians, Heflians, and Wolfenbuttlers, and the methods which the Hanoverian generals took to deceive the French general by making him believe, that they were refolved to obferve pundually the convention, while at the fame time they were concerting with th^e King of PrufTia, and pre- paring to recommence hoftilities, as foon as they fliould find a favour- able opportunity, by the French army's being difperfed into winter quarters ; and this fecond part they conclude as follows.

One refleftion fhall put a pe- riod to this detail. If the D uke of Cumberland af!-.ed to capitulate, it was becaufe he found himfelf in a critical pofition, and juftly feared that, fhould the Marlhal de Riche* lieu attack him, he would ruin the Hanoverian army i'retrievably, and make himfelf mafter of the town of Stade, and of the depofuum lodged there. Had not his fituation been fo dangerous in every refpsO, can P z it