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- gives antes by whirl the Cabinet of &timbal hitherto en deavaired to cloak its proetrediogs: to which it moreover odds the pretenfion that his Proffian Ma lefty. has acquired, by his fyftem olio:Bey, claims to the gratitude of all the Northern Powers. Thus aaually difpoffelred of the ancient inheritanoe of my family, and infulted in my rights as a Sove reign, I have ordered thofe meafures to be taken which the honour of my Crown requires: but I [till owe it to tnyfelf, - to Europe, and to my illbjees, to make a public Declaration of my fentiments, as Eleflor of Brunfwiel-Luttenburgb, upon the unjult ofurpation of my German pored - sons. It isetot neceffary to prove how contrary this a& Is to the rights of nations, or to the laws of the Ger man Empire. Their infrattion is too evident to be required to be proved. It is the mod facred princi ples of good faith, of honour, and in fait of all the 'Obligations upon which the reciprocal fafety of dif ferent States *mon thranfelves, and of each civil fo ciety in itfelf, repofe, which are troddio under foot in fisch a manner, that the world would haei difficulty in believing it, if I Aid not caufe the foes to be laid before them, which are authenticated in the narrative which I have ordered to be prepared. . The proceedings of the Court of Berlin, when the Eleeorate was occupied by its troops in tBot —its conduit far from being friendly during the negocia. tion - for the indemnities which followed the Peace of Lutreville-.she declaration which it made, when France prepared to invade the Eleftorate—and, leaky, the burtiaenfome conditions under which it endeavoured to cook it to be evacuated, to fobßitute Itirowntosops, indeed of thofe of France, had given , too many proofs to the Government of Hanover, not to-oblige it toarndettvour to avoid all fort of inter vesitirin on the part of this Power. even at the met meot that k was on the point of engaging in a difpute with France. The events which warded the arrival in Hanover of the eepeditioo, concerted between • Great Britain, Ruffin, and Sweden, gave the Prof. fiats troops aus opportunity of anticipating them, after the French army had been obliged to evacuate the . Elettorate. This Beep was accompanied by the moll friendly protedathms on the part of Profile. •She invited the .ilsoraterian Governnsent to refume its functions in gay ratite, and to colleft the wreck of the army. The country, already fo unfortunate, doubly felt the weight of the numerous regulations extolled by the Prudian corps, without the leak regard to the emotion in which the French left it. Atter the unfortunate refult of the campaign of the ''Allies in the' South of the Empire, an attack in the j,Blorth was to be expelled. His Imperial Majefty of mama, to obviate the dangers to which Prnifis 411.bt be expofed, placed, in confequence of the con vention of Pot edam, his troops under Count de Tol- Boy, and the corps of General Benningfen, under the orders of his Pruffian Majeay, and promifed him moreover all the a:Ea:ince for which he might have occafion. It was fearcely to be expelled that Pruffia would avail !tercel( of this.advantage, and of that which the promife of the fubftdy the had *aced of I I Great Britain gave her, to obtain from France terms contrary to the intereis which thefe.rafourcee were inter.ded to protett. This, notwithifanding, has am tuAly happened. The Secret Treaty, the effeEts of which are beginning to appear, was figned by Count Hougwitz and the French General Duroc the t 511 t Ilecenther tBoe, the period fixed as the term when Pr was to declare againtl France, en cal . ,: that Power (horrid hate rejetted the proenlitions which Count Hangwirr was to make to her, in confiNoence of the Corr.:wino of rotzdam. Seven days after, December 12, the Cabinet of tolin orop3fed to the Britith Ambalfador the ar rangements to Ire taken in common with the Pruftian Generals, for the partions of the Allied Armies in Lower Saxony ; and ditpatched, in confequence, Lieutenant Colonel Baron de Krufcmark, with a letter to the Hanoverian Government, to induce it ro fornifh provir.ons for the French garrifon at Ile mein. It was neeeffary to concur in this arrangement torbirilo was only provifirmally terminated the 4th of January) becattfe it was to prevent the French troops tram undertaking any thing againti Hanover during the negocintion. Was the Cuurt.of Berlin then ignorant in what onaneer Count Hawgwitt bad concluded this negro ciatiou ? Did it not know, before the Denature of the • zee No. r, in T464ey's Para • ? or, Ai itait the good fAith of it the Cilhinet Government..., igned and ratifies - Along would no coups I that they _ who were Rill future peace between decided their con. coops of his Pru Man iniftration." The required, but to no put. ~üblic officers, that tbey slider themfelves as finally commiffion of adminiam -efertna. 25th of January to shit Prultan Minifter, and intended to jufiify this pris: . coding, was figned with the. King of Profile's own hand. It ended with thefe Words, " I think I tt& neceffary to obferve how much the territorica l la quoßion ought to be fatisfied with this change Of fcene ; and my willies would be fulfilled, if, is conlk quenee of the difinterefted views by which I am iM• peUed, the adminiaration I have taken .upon lee should turn out to the happiuefs of the country 29 . 41 1 1 its inhabitants, and by that means fotafattory to his Britaxxic illajey, to whom 1 deft,* =thing loom l i than to give, in this inflame, as in all others, all the proofs of confideration, of deference, and of friend.l fisip, which circumitances may put in my poem.. The experience of the part, and a well lonndtsl ap-, prehenlion of the future, did not allow me to he tai about the part neceffary to be taken ; and my Elec., total Government was initrufled not to enter into any negociation, the object of which might have been to avoid a new French invafion, by allowing the Pruffians to occupy Hanover. The proteß made upon this occafion by my Eta total Istinifler of State, was ineffatual. The Kin g of Prufila canted the greateß part of the country to be occopied at the moment that thy troops re-embark ed ; and his matures were executed without the leall regard. It was too city to forefee that Count Haugwitt %toed find means at Paris to bring back the arrange ment between Pruffia and France, l asnoinseed here est rated by the contratting partiet,to Its original intention. This was what took place ; and the French troops, took poffeffion of Antpach, one of the objeOs of compentation, according to the treaty of December tS, the very day the the Marquis De Lucchefini could reach Berlin with intelligence that France re. claim' the execution of the articles agreed open at; Vienna. The anfwer returned by the Britt& Cabinet to the cosnenunication of January as, did not arrive at Bet. lie nntli after the Minifter of State, Baron Harden. berg, had announced to the Brian! Envoy the hot tile ateafures which have compelled me to (Arend my relations with a Court which could fo far forget itfelf. The ProtEan note of April 4, can furnish no good arguments to ellablifh an unjuPifiable !mature. It begins by vaunting the pacific difpnfitions of Pruffia. This difpotition is no further fincere than as it has for its foundation the principles of a Jug neutrality. The note delivered by the Cabinet of Berlin to the French Miniller en the ,4th of °So ber, at the very inftant that Pruffia appeared to feel the affront which the received by the violation of the territory of Aofpach. acknowledges that the condo& which the had followed to that time had proved of advantage to France. Her aftionr had much lefs pretenfions to the cha• rafter of impartiality. After having permitted the French troops who feited on the Ele&orate of Han over a paffage through the Pruffian territory, the de clared herfelf ready to oppofe, (word in hand, that which the Emperor of Ruffia had demanded for his Armies. France herfelf forced the paffage : (be pretended to offer csctitv for that Rep, but it was in a manner equally off tlfive. She 'PM teen too clearly where the refentment of PruffiA would terminate. which in fa& appeared to be Rifled when his Imperial Majefly of Ruilia engaged iii a petfonal conantinication with the King. Pruffia then demanded fubfidiez of Great Britain, which were vomited to het, and the Aped the Cnn• Ivenrion of Potfdam. the conditien: of sohkhile would, doukki, have ken more ehfpofed to fulfil, if I cook! hove fo far f0i5 , ..:1.-ti my duo, a: to confent to the prop Lion of ceding the kle.inrate of Hanover for fame Prufian province. Pruflia affirms, that from the events of the war, the has not had the choice of means to fecure the fafety of Its Monarchy, and of the States of the North. She withes to make it appear, that the has been com pelled to aggrandize herfeff, and to become the in Iftument, rather than the objeB of the vengeance of my enemies. Such an A vowal dues not become a peat power. All Europe trnriws.shat it dopended on Prudia. before the battle of 4kretteilitz, to give rope& fo Drupe, if the had taken.the interefls, and the outraged honour' of lter Kodarchj, dieated to her. She cau no liaigir be sieufed, after haring P.IJ 'stiffed fuch in opportunity; and,ever. (Ince the event **A: - December, did the not command an misty Oraio,cco men; who ant remember the virtu- etio • bitAlitained under t:ie great Frederic, whichswasi ikthe i bell difrf 60 , 4, and (imported by the whole Ratan army. two corps of which were a/Nally un der the command of the King of Proflia ? She wodld, without doubt, have been fobjea to certain rifles ; but (he found lierfelf in a fituatinK : when every danger mull be encountered to five the honour of the 4tate. The Pribee who. hesitates in ' making a choke, dellroys the. principle which ferves RS 'the hats of a military monarchy ; and Frnlfra ought already to begin to feel .the facrifice the ha's Made of her independence. - e The Note ni April 4,•allinaii; want France hal confidered the Eleaor ate as 41 conqueft, and Lb* its troops bad been on the point of se-entering it, t make a definitive difpofal of it." The Eleanrate of Hanover, as an integral part of the Germanic Empire, is not concerned in the war between Great Britain and France; neveithlef , , it has been usjilftly invaded by•that Power, which has, notwithftanding, frequently indicated the objea for which the was difpofed to reftore it: : France was at length compelled to abandon tie country, and forty thonfand of my troops, and drags of my allies, were ellablifbed there. when the Conic De Haugwits figned a treaty which ail - pores of my States. It is true, that the Pyritous vier was theft at the dilisofai of his PruffiatiN s fafefty.; but its•Cidet, with the genuine fpirit of ass honourable man. was not the 14 determined to flytht, if the Allies of his Mar ter were attacked: we (hall not (peak of the French pram which remained at Hameln, infofficient in point of number, deprived of the means of defence, end on the point of being befaged, when the pro mifes of Pruffiacinfed the plan to be abandoned. 'roe intention of trent* to difpnre definitively of the Eleaorate, would bitetr o heen contrary to the Elf fertions ( be has fo o ft en made. It would, Moreover, have been contrary to the uthge of war, finee even a conqueft is not definitively difpnfed of befOre a peace ; and particularly at a moment when a with might ea to enanifeft a pacific dirpofition. Praia had no right to judge if Great Britain had the means of opprifing the return of my enemies to the Eleaorate. Per power fornifhes her with the means of bringing the war to an honourable end.for the interefts Ore defends; but it is difficult to con ceive in what light Pruffia pretends that her meaftnes removed troops that are fbanger: to the Eleaorater and encore the repofe of the North. Her troops, in eonfequence of the treacherous cooduft of her Cabi. net, will remain as much firangers to the Eleftorate as the French troops. PrufGa mould not (peak of her fairifices at the moment when her only aim is to aggrandize herfelf, nnlefs the feels the Info of her independence to be fkreb, and how much the has departed from her duty, in abandoning one of the oldeft potrafions of her Houle, and of fobjeas who implored, in vain, her .affiltance. Befides, her facrifiees have no conae(hon 'with my Wiens of policy, and confer no right on her to dulls' the Government of my German fubjeas, whore fidelity nothing has hitherto shaken, and which they will retain towards my perfon, and a family of Princes, who for many ages have only fought their bappinefs. It is evident that the condua of the Court of Ber lin is not the free expreilion of the will of its Save reign, but the confequence of the influence exercifed by my enemies in the Cabinet of that Prince. All the Courts, and all the States, however, who can judge of eircumnances, and all that they owe to the Wiens adopted by the Court of Berlin, will agree that the .(I committed againft a Sovereign united to 1 his PrutUan Majetty by the ties of blond, and until now by thofe of friendfhip, places the fafety of En. rope in greater danger than any aC't of hoftility nn the part of a Power with which one might be at open war. Convinced of the juflice of my cattle, I make my appeal to all the powers of Europe, who arc interefled , in refilling the confolidation of a fytlem, which, by ' threatening the political caittence of an integral part of the German empire, brings intn ciliation the teen- City of the whole. I demand , moll carnally, the conllieutional ai2. which is due to me as Eleam. (lon, the Empire, its auguft Head, as well as Itutlla and Sweden, the powers who have guaranteed its conlli. tution, and who have already manifeacd, and null continue to manifefi, the moll honourable slit - petition for the prefervation of my States. Laftly, I proteft in the molt folemn manner, for myfelf, and my heirs, againft every encroachment on my rights in the EleEterate of Br tatty: ick• Luneobourg, and its dependencies; and 1 repeat, in quality of Elettor, the Declaration made by the Minilter of my Crown at the Court of lletlin, that no advantage, arifing froni political arrangements, ranch lefs any offer whatever of an indemnity, or equivalent, iliall ever engage me to forget what I owe to my dignity, the attachment, and exemplary fidelity of my nano retian futsjals, fo as to yield my conft.nt to the alie- nation of my EleCtor.ite. Given at the Palace of W.nd'or, the ,nth day of April, lA* in the 46th rat of wy [COI. ti ) E. Count dc Mt of r. GIOLCII I. :14 -47EKTell2r ROCLLI)I7t GS. HOUSE OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. Mr. Madhal of .the King. Bench, peircutr:. at the Bit as account of OIL bumbcr of perfona confined for in the rrt- in Of that Court le the Appcsl from the Court of Seflion, . Ref , , the Earl o f I Fife," the houctroa GET:11141. and Mr CIA, ..ere heard for the Appellant further coofiderrt no paroled fill trooain eiv. - ii 1 a MAJFSTY'S 1A11114%E. • Lord GREtIVII.I.E moved thrOrder of the day for taking his tlnj:lty's Mcfage ifito - corlideritiois: The Metrage being read, • His Lorillhip rofe acrd (*firmed, that •ifter itie blefrage which their Lordthipchad heard, it •wolittl not be neceffary for him to take up womb of the ri m , of the Houle. He was pertsta.ied that there conkt be but one fentiment among their I.orallisips yelped. igg his Maielly's.Mefrage ;he was convinced there . could be but one feeling in the country...ft , to thr - Irrtt of conduit which it was neceffary tn . admit ; and he believed there could he but foie Opinion thrOitiliont 11 Europe refpelling the conduit of l'ruffta. hi.o.t 'ties e stetted no tonneftion between that power and Great Britain, if Ms Protean Majefty had not heed loiund by tics of alliance, of blood, Of friendfhip; •and of gratitude, fill one might brie fu Wefkd attest hiitlVO policy, a fettle of his real in tere wooftfinite ler duced him to purfue a conrfe -dilforewe'ffeerr diet which occaftased the Metlitge witlet , Itat bath l,ll read. It was set hie intention Wearer Seel*, et pm ', fent into elsopassignlars of the coodut* of the Pim; file Gowammieset 4t would be rierealleY, lseliever,te I make fontereferesee 0 them. Mast Oturfthedblsdk , engaged in ceelleetlal intercourfe with E.eglind IWe vials to the Wile of Anfletlitz ; and if ony soli could be pieced upon affdrances—if any faith he repofed %ma treaties-ewe had a right to ANL that She would be found. nest fighting on the fide of the enemy,.bet (attaining the common ant . / of Eu rope againtl France. Oo the contrary, flee rolled art if, natwithfkanding thole affuraneer ood Ode trek ties. the had been leagued with France from the be• HThis was granite:led in various inflame'. Her dill open aft was to occupy Hanover,under tenet of covering the retreat Of the 13ritifb and M- r and of ticuring her own frontier ar' a l at t u i er which m ight refult from the eftabli a much force in the Eltiflorate of Hanover. 114 Ilis occupition was a flagrant outrage and violation "Ofjoftice, no one could deny, and as fuch, his lkirA lefty could ,not but feel it deeply. The intuit and injury, however, affefting him more in his private than in his public capacity, he detstmined to apply ter remonfrance said negociation, rather than to rnedittet of a more feti-or charafter. What tom the conduit of Prnffia ? Their Lord&ps tiooild fcarceiy belie* it, if the faits were not nototious to all Europe. der fore time could be given for the firft temperatero. prefentation, before any explanation was ofFeretot received, Ihe took forcible poalffion of his liajelirs Eleftoral dominions. The country which the men- pied a few days before, for the exprefs pnrpofe of protefting and guarding againit the armies of France, within one fortnight after ale appropriated to herfelf, t as a cefGon and a conquer made by France. This was the fecond Kip in the gradation of the injuries ofered to his Maj elty. There was, hrever, athirfl flep more general and more injurious in hackie& turd confeguences. His Prof:Gan bfajefly catered It. be 1 ungifted to the Brititb Minifter at Berlin, *WM' Aimee to a reguilition from Freace. hew,* 1 40 exclude the (Lipping of England not o froth ?raffia, but from the ports of all the countries within the reach of her controul pr influence. It gratin Ms Atuation we now flood. His Majefty could not tett 'feel deep and lining regret that 'the ills of Peoria, liver which he had ao contrutd.lboold involve in the eadamities of war not only the fobjefts of Profs, bit drnfe of other conntries. Vi'llether any alternatite remained to his Majefty, it would be for their Lord flips to determine ; to his mind there was nome. l could not perceive what other meefores than &Ole which had been retorted to, could by taken againll a 'cottntry which was found, either from choice or ce ceffity, to yield to every requifition of the enetny.sg finch boundlefs actpriefcence 'did not become any country, and much left a great country like Prig a. It was obvious, that, in point of honour and • k tion, the could gain nothing by it; it remelt= proved whether, even in the inferior confideratiCesOf interefl, the would find herfelf the better by it. Ile purpofely abftained from making ufe of flrong Wins in Ipeaking of the condat of Praffia. If it•semirkhe the objeft of any one to itritate; to iatiame•the.pef (ions, to make it more difficult to renew hartafewebe conneftion between the two toontries, be. eafy would it be for him to reprefent the conduit ltf Prnffia in a much fironger light ? One *bravados • more remained for him to make. whichrelated se the interelt of Proffitt herfdf. This appeared tio Menlo be the kind of reafoning by which the endeavoured to reto.ncile hertelt to the strange line of policy die had thought proper to purfue. "1 . have no beadier !Irina you ; France inning upon my cedius to hero part of my dominions ; I mud indeas,..* isyfelf fumealtere ; you are my weaker aeighbourr add 1 will wren my indemnity from you." What could there be more rrilltroos, More unjull, more con ',tory to the principles of the lows of nations, titan Inch apr •pofition ? He amid allow that cafes may occur, in which a c.tmmry might be obliged to cede ' part of her territories t bin ttiotich her interefts were iffeded, flit let lonuott utigl4 he pleferved. There was no difgrace in being the viftins of loch a Mel: (sty. It was not dithonourabie to be obliged to befol ' to eircumflances alter 'au appeal t'i Innis ; the c, ltoonur was in nut contending ageing loch an event. in yielding without an etfort or a ltruggle. 'l's geoundi urn which he would in we die Addeo(' I. hi ; Kielty, which i,e held initis hand, -were theft. Fiat: the teceffity us :tinting that A connection di.i and ought to exist between Englard - and German) . and that we felt de: ply- for her laterals. He was all , antions to codyince ripal, that there was not a Power in Eutope, who v oi la mclude Britillt flips from her ports with insouoity ; and above all, he 'tithed to mat k our abhorrence of that abominable principle, of one. Power indemr,ifying hien* at the e 1 pence of its awake,' .ncightic.nr. He would ac knowledge alto- lie had neither powerful motive for prepofing it, a iwntive in which -he stnticipate. l the peeled concurrence not only of every Noble Lord who heard Itim, but of every may in-the country. — He was anti )ns to etontince.his M...jett y that they kit an infult °feted to.hirn as an infoit •ifered to the." Alves and that there was no part of his ilemini,o,' • 'o 10: .' X- ir i i dr , ...... r Z it i &al" ,s 4 , , V ;.k, 01111------_------- .Ti l er, What wolddlte.the end of it ? STATE Pil PAR. Wainer difpofe, ss he pleated, cf the f ----•—•• hit Mader_? ... DECLARATION. IL was on the 27th of January, that . • OEOROR tbe THIRD, by tbo Gums at coo, of ditillitia Be rti lk lin 5 t 01 0 4 . Hiitnin ed to the I4annveria . n Dessise ref Ills ".that in emsfequence of a treaty lign 2:4Bla vad D4:ef Si is ‘ll ' Ics .1":11114 W s;: t brisa P 7l:7d my by t G he r l 7 re a n n cl i 7t ff r c o i l ° wield be entirely evacuated by th ole The Cneee4 ‘, " 1 " :1114 Ilk!. is !lb+ Ilitte, and . delivered tip, until a pure figns, figns, which fiti kV) tenelfel bY bee.tk!enelti . If4eiglandlettd . Prime fhould h.ve der , . profellions. ...! . . .`'''.- '.. lokillettits protettion of the troop' The Nast Vlliie e l delisted on thelth A**. efiiiehd to la eaclufive adminiy 1 by theePreilldsinvoy, _Baron Jacobi 8e,.4. IP.* ktimOverian Gatiernmeht was require , Britifh Miniltry, announces that the E140:010aUf lore, to intimate to all the public off Hanover has bees taken poffiffion of, and til:lk the were, for the fhtnre, to confider then • parts of the German Sea , and of Lubeck, hash been clofed againl theßritiOs SAg. This Declaration gives the lie to all thole affur• I refnonlible to the PrulLen commiffiot tion, exchtding all foreign referent. The clifpatch addreffed the 25th of __. . -. ..__. _r n—u.. 1,.. hitherto en- vs_..Al,-- arn.:ll-. ars,4 intended to ",