High and Mighty Lords,

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HE unwritten Embaffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of his Britannick Majefty, and one of the Lords Juftices of his Majefty's Kingdoms during his Abfence, reprefents to your High Might ineffes, that the King his Mafter has receiv'd, with all poffible Marks of Satisfaction, your High Might ineffes Answer to the Speech, made by him the faid Embassador to your Deputies for foreign Affairs on the 15th Instant; and that his Majefty has order'd him to return you his Thanks for the Readiness and Affection with which your High Mighti neffes have declar'd your Refolution to fulfil your Guaranty for fupporting the Proteftant Succeffion: And tho' his Majefty never doubted of the Friendship and Exactitude of this Republick, in accomplishing all their Engagements relating to him; yet the Dispatch and Affection with which you have done it, has even furpafs'd his Expecta

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Your High Mightineffes have thereby engag'd the Friendship of a King, which cannot but be very advantageous to you, as well in regard to the Neighbourhood and Powerfulness of his Kingdoms and States, as with refpect to his Majesty's perfonal Merit, who, for his many excellent Qualities, will be efteem'd and courted by all Europe, as well as lov'd and refpected by his own Subjects And as he is known to be a Prince, who is a religious Obferver of his Word, your High Mightinesses may be affur'd, that in gaining his Friendship, you fecure to your felves a solid and lasting Support.

Your High Mightineffes Anfwer, and quick Refolution to fecond the Measures taken in Great Britain, for maintaining the Proteftant Succeffion, were no lefs agreeable to the Lords Juftices, and the whole Kingdom, fince by this Union of our Counfels, that happy Peace and Tranquillity we now enjoy, will be preferv'd in Spite of all those who would attempt to trouble it.

The Lords Juftices defire in particular, that I would fignify to your High Mightineffes, in this Memorial, their great Satisfaction in obferving those Marks of Affection and Regard to the King and the Proteftant Succeflion, which you have fhewn in your Letter to his Majefty, which was communicated to them by Baron Bothmar.

As to my own Particular, the Inclination and Zeal I always had for the Proteftant Succeffion, on Account of the Good of my Country, is now become perfonal for

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the King, who, fince the Queen's Death, has, in a very gracious Manner, been pleas'd to honour me with feveral Marks of his Royal Favour.

'Tis with the greateft Satisfaction, that I fee the good Effects which the Union between the King, his King doms, and this Republick, will have through all Europe; and as I have always done the utmoft in my Power to preferve this Union, fince I have had the Honour to be employ'd as Embaffador to your High Might ineffes, fo 1. fhall continue to apply all my Endeavours to that End, as long as I shall remain with you in that Quality, and even afterwards, fhall never forget the perfonal Marks of Friendship and Efteem, which I have receiv'd from the principal and moft valu'd Members of this Repub Lick.

Hague, Aug. 39,

N. S. 1714.

STRAFFORD.

Some Days before, the Refident of Hanover at the, Hague, deliver'd the following Letter from the King to the States-General.

High and Mighty Lords, most dear Friends and Allies,

HE Letter of the 15th Inftant, which your High Mightieffes have written to us, or our good Friends and Neighbours, has been deliver❜d to us by an Express. As nothing more agreeable could happen to us upon our Acceffion to the Throne, than to receive from your High Mightinefles fuch obliging Affurances of your good Intentions for us, and the publick Good, fo nothing is wanting in our Acknowledgment in that Refpect, and in the high Efteem we have for your High Mightineffes and your Friendship. Your High Might ineffes are to be entirely perfwaded, that feeing it has pleas'd God to call us to the Throne of Great Britain, we shall make it one of our most ferious Applications, to embrace all Oppor tunities to acknowledge, by all poffible Means, what you have done for us on this Occafion; to contribute to the Strengthening and Increase of your Profperity and Secu rity, and that of your Republick ;, to live with you in an indiffoluble Union; to concur with a Concert of Zeal and Forces to the Prefervation of the Proteftant Religion, and the Liberty of Europe; and to fupport and fecond the laudable Intentions of your High Might ineffes. Upon our Arrival in Holland, where, with the Affiftance of God, we intend to be in a few Days, we shall have the Satisfaction

Satisfaction in a more ample Manner to confirm all this to your High Might ineffes by Word of Mouth. We thank you in a particular Manner for your obliging Invitation, and are much oblig'd to you for the fame. main, High and Mighty Lords, your affectionate for ever, &c.

Hanover, Aug. 21,
N. S. 1714.

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GEORGE LOUIS, R

Before the Receipt of this Letter, the States General. had appointed Meffieurs Van Welderen, Noordwyck, Taats van Amerongen, and Burmania, to receive his Britannick Majefty on the Frontier of their Territories; and fome Days after, the States of Holland nam'd Deputies of their own to receive his Majefty at his Entrance into that Pro vince, and to conduct him to the Hague. On the other Hand, their High Mightineffes caus'd eight Men of War to be equipp'd with all poffible Expedition, in order to join the British Squadron appointed to convoy the King over to England.

The Court of France, tho' ftunn'd by the unforeseen Accident of the Queen of Great Britain's fudden Death, yet, with great Prudence, follow'd the best Counfel, which, in the prefent Condition of their Affairs, they could take; and that was, readily to acknowledge King George. Accordingly, befides the Declarations mention'd above, Monfeur de Chateauneuf, their Embaffador at the Hague, made the Earl of Strafford the ufual Complements of Condolance upon the Death of the late Queen, and at the fame Time thofe of Congratulation upon King George's Acceflion to the Throne.

Meanwhile the Pretender, who having, upon the Peace of Utrecht, been forc'd to depart the Dominions of France, was retir'd to Bar-le-duc in Lorrain, receiv'd there, on the 4th of Auguft, the News that the Queen was either dead, or paft Recovery; upon which he inftantly took Poft for Verfailles, but the King of France having Notice of his · Arrival, immediately fent the Marquefs de Forcy to him with this unwelcome Meffage, viz. That his Moft Chriftian Majefty was furpriz'd at his being return'd into his Dominions, knowing the Engagements he was under, in Refpect to the Succeffion of the Crown of 'Great Britain in the Houfe of Hanover; and therefore défir'd him to quit his Territories.". Upon which the Chevalier

Chevalier de St. George (for that was the Title the Pretender had taken upon his Departure from France) having made a Vifit to the Queen Dowager of England at the Monaftery of Chalios, return'd to Bar-le due, and foon afterwards went to Luneville, where the Court of Lorrain then refided, and after that to Plombieres.

About this Time, Mr. Laws, the British Minister at Bruffels, having notify'd to the Council of State, to whọm the Government of the Spanish Netherlands was then committed, the Death of the Queen of Great Britain, and the Acceffion of King George to the Crown, the faid Council, in a Body, went on the 12th of August to Mr. Laws's Houfe, and made him a formal Complement of Congrarulation and Condoleance on this Occafion. The Council of Finances went likewife to his Houfe in a Body on the fame Account.

We return now to England, where, on the 5th of Augut, the Lords of the Regency took into Confideration the Complaint of the Merchants, whofe Ships had been made Prize by the Swedes, and gave fome Directions thereupon. On the 6th their Excellencies confider'd farther of the Bufinefs that had a long Time been depending before the Privy Council, relating to the Election of a Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the City of Dublin, and determin'd it to be one of the ancient Privileges of that City to chufe their own Magiftrates. This Determination being immediately difpatch'd away to the Lords Juftices of Ireland, their Excellencies, on the 17th of August, fammon'd the nominal Lord Mayor of Dublin, and the Aldermen in Town, and propos'd to them to proceed forthwith to the Election of a Mayor and Sheriffs for the remaining Part of the Year till Michaelmas next: But the Mayor declin'd proceeding to a Choice in Conjun&tion with the Aldermen; whereupon the Aldermen, after the nominal Lord Mayor had refus'd either to proceed to an immediate Choice, or to name a Time when he would go upon the Election, went into a Choice without him, which by a Majority fell upon Alderman Page, for Lord Mayor for the remaining Term, and on Mr. Sommervill, a Merchant of that City, for Sheriff, with Mr. Crowder, who was formerly elected by the Aldermen, and approv❜d by the Government. The nominal Mayor thereupon withdrew himself, being privately countenanc'd in his refractory Behaviour by Sir Conftantine Phipps, by whose Influence the Privy Council declin'd approving the

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Choice of Alderman Page, and contented themselves with fending an Account of what had pafs'd to the Lords Juftices of Great Britain, who thereupon taking into Confideration the late, and former Behaviour of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in relation to the Choice of the Magiftrates of the City of Dublin, and other Matters, which had rais'd the general Odium of the well-affected to the Hanoverian Succeffion against him; their Excellencies (notwithstanding what was alledg'd in his Favour by two or three Lords) refolv'd to remove both him and the Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland, from the Station of Lords Juftices there; and appointed his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, and the Earl of Kildare, to be two of the Lords Juftices of Ireland in their Room. But before the Refolution of the Lords Regents. of Great Britain reach'd Dublin, the Lords Juftices and Privy Council of Ireland, had drawn up a Representation, Containing Reafons why they could not comply with the late Orders they had receiv'd from the Lords of the Regency, being in Subftance,

1. Because the allowing the City of Dublin to chufe, their Magiftrates, was derogatory from the Prerogative of the Crown.

2. Because the fame might prove dangerous to the Church as by Law establish'd.

3. Because they could not do it in Confcience.

Thefe Reafons being tranfmitted to England, and laid before the Lords of the Regency, their Excellencies, upon mature Deliberation, refolv'd, That the fame were frivolous, fcandalous, &c. againft which, however, two or three of the Lords Regents protefted: But the King had before entirely approv'd, by Letter, their Excellencies Conduct in that Affair, and return'd them his Thanks

for it.

On the 28th of Auguft. Mr. Murray arriv'd Exprefs from Hanover, with feveral Orders from the King to the Regency and Council, particularly for the preparing a Patent, for creating the Prince Royal Prince of Wales; and for removing the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke from his Office of Secretary of State, which was done on the laft of Auguft with particular Marks of Difpleafure; three of the Lords of the Regency, viz. the Dukes of Shrewsbury and Somerset, and the Lord Cowper taking the Seals from him, and locking and fealing up the Doors of his Office in the Cockpit.

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