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 4J4 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758.

The court of France faw very well that fhe could not clai -- the xight of refufing the capiiuiution of the treaty of Clofter-feven, with- out giving the fame right to his Britannic majefty. In order, there- fore, to throw a falfe glofs upon the explanation of the treaty, it pretends 'That theKingof France,


 * out of his zeal for his allies and


 * the empire, approved of the con-


 * dudl of Marflial Richelieu ; and


 * to render the capitulation more


 * folid, his majefty propofed to add


 * to it fome explanations, to fix the


 * fenfe of it in fo clear a manner,


 * as to obviate every falfe interpre-


 * tation ; explanations which the


 * court of Copenhagen and Count


 * Lynar had found conformable to

But this tale is abfolutely con- trary to the true ftate of things. The court of France declared, that it would not acknowledge the vali- dity of the convention, unlefs the
 * the true fenfe of the capitulation.'

new terms which it intended to add were agreed to, and the auxiliary troops were difarmed. This cir- cumltance, which is moft clearly related in Count de Lynar's letter, which is known to the court of Co- penhagen, and which was the caufe that the guaranty of that court was not fought, is alfo mentioned in Marfhal Richelieu's own letter, an- nexed to the Parallel. His words are as follow: * His Danifh ma-


 * jedy having offered to guaranty


 * them (the articles of the coiiven-


 * lion) the king'my mailer thinks,


 * that before he figns his accept-


 * ance of them, it will be proper


 * to obviate fome obfcurities which


 * might occafion difficulties in the

' pended reciprocally uponwordsof
 * execution, which has been fuf-


 * honour, to make no alteration in


 * their fubftance, and always to ex-


 * ecute them, when both fides have


 * cometoanunderftandingrelating


 * to any doubts that may arife.'

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