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 lution which our Zeal and Affection inspire us with, never to recede from your Majesty's paternal and gentle Dominion, and to endeavour to deserve that your Majesty should make your greatest Efforts; to the End your most faithful Subjects may not become miserable Victims to their irreconcileable Enemies. What makes us think this Confidence the better founded, is, that we have experienced a long Course of Favours from your Catholick Majesty, and particularly the Proteiction with which we have been honoured, during your Majesty's Absence, by the Presence of the Empress and Queen our Mistress; which will be ever remembred with Thanks to Heaven by all Catalonia. We offer your Majesty to make the greatest Sacrifices, to obtain the End above mentioned, and to contribute to the Continuation of the good Successes which we have Ground to hope for from the Divine Clemency, and from the Piety of your Catholick Majesty. That it may please the Almighty to prosper the most August Person of your imperial and Catholick Majesty, so necessary to all Christendom, is the earnest Prayer of your most faithful Subjects. The Representation of the Principality of Catalonia to his Imperial and Catholick Majesty. HE City of Barcelona, the Deputation, and military Arm of the Principality of Catalonia, having been informed of the Suspenfion of Arms between England and France, and the other Dispositions which it has pleased the Empress and Queen our Mistress to communicate to us, touching the general Peace in the Conferences at Utrecht