And forafmuch as his Majefty of Sweden has fuffer'd fo many Outrages and Injuries, without being able to receive any Satisfaction for them; fuch as having his Letters intercepted, open'd, falfly decipher'd and interpreted; his Subjects, Officers and Soldiers imprifon'd, after having been rob'd of all they had, and prohibited Commerce, which by the Right of Nature is common to all the World: fince the Emperor has difconcerted and hinder'd the Peace or Agreement with the King of Poland, and on the contrary affifted him with a great many Troops; fince he has caus'd whole Armies to march into Pruffia against his Majefty and the Kingdom of Sweden, to ruin them; fince he has entirely deny'd him the Paffage demanded in all Friendship, and under Cautions and Affurances; fince he has plunder'd his Friends, Allies, Neighbours and Relations (in hatred to his Majesty's Name) who are opprefs'd, perfecuted and defpoil'd of their Dutchies and. Lordfhips, banifh'd and chas'd from their Lands and Houfes, and almoft reduc'd to Beggary; fince he ignominiously debar'd and rejected, in a moft barbarous manner, his Ambaffadors, who were dif patch'd with full Power to treat of a Peace; and fince, in fine, he fent two ftrong Armies against his Majefty, without any juft Cause or Reason, and even without any Pretext, that may ferve for a colour to the wicked Defigns of his Enemies. Seeing all this, is there any Perfon of Understanding and Senfe, not prepoffefs'd with Paffion and private Intereft, that can deny, but both by Divine and Human Laws, and by the very inftinct of Nature, it is lawful to make use of the Means which God puts in our Hands, to resent and avenge our felves for fo fenfible an Injury? especially for Kings and Sovereign Princes, particularly when their Honour and Perfon, the Safety of their States, and the good of their Subjects are concern'd; when all Appearance of Honour and Satisfaction is deny'd them: it being most true and notorious to all the World, that not only by Menaces and fecret Practices, but alfo by Force and Violence, the Enemy has feiz'd, and would likewife take poffeffion of the Ports and Harbours of the Baltick Sea, to establish new Admiralties there, in prejudice of the ordinary Commerce and antient Liberty, and to the total Ruin of the Maritime Towns; and after fuch unjuft Enterprizes and

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Designs are yet continu'd by the Preparations of the Enemy both by Sea and Land: Is there any one, I fay, that can blame the moft Serene King of Sweden, for endeavouring by his Arms to defend his Subjects and Friends from fuch an Oppreffion?

And to fum up the whole in a few words: Are not we inftructed by the Laws of Nature to repel Force by Force? And who is he that will not judg, that his Majefty has been really forc'd against his Will to undertake this juft War, and oblig'd thereto by Constraint and urgent Neceffity, after having try'd all the ways of Right and Justice, and met with all forts of Obftructions and Hindrances, inftead of the good and wholefom Remedies he propos'd?

Now there remaining no other means to be employ'd but that of Arms, for his own Prefervation, and for the Defence and Protection of his Subjects and Friends, he defires that all Christendom would judg whether he has not taken them up with Regret, and after being forc'd by extreme Neceffity.

If there be found any one of his Enemies who fhould blame and reproach his Majefty for having taken upon him the Defence and particular Protection of the City of Stralfond (the Juftice whereof is however very apparent) the blame ought to be imputed to thofe who gave occafion to it, and who without all reafon first attack'd that City, its Ports and Territory, and exercis'd the Ravages and Barbarities mention'd above.

If his Majefty had in any manner favour'd the Enterprizes of the Emperor's and the Empire's Enemies, or if he had enter'd into a League and Affociation with them, People would not be furpriz'd if they paid him home in his own Coin: but having always perfifted in a Refolution to live in Peace, and conftantly continu'd in the Amity and Neutrality of both Parties during the Wars of Germany, without having ever given any Cause of Sufpicion or Offence; he hath at prefent all the reafon in the World to complain to all Christendom of the bad and unworthy Treatment he has met with.

For which Caufe, his faid Majefty of Sweden having no Designs to the prejudice of the Empire, against which he protests he has no Quarrel or Enmity whatsoever, has only taken up Arms for the Publick Good, for his own

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Safety, and the Prefervation of his Friends, whom he defires to put in the fame State and Liberty which they were in before this War, and by the fame means to fecure for the future the Neighbourhood and the Baltick Sea, and his own Kingdom of Sweden, against all Violence of Pirates and Robbers.

And to come to a Conclufion; his Majefty has this Confidence, That all honeft People who fhall fee this Manifefto and his Declaration, and read it without prejudice, and confider the Reasons therein briefly and truly laid down, will find caufe for blaming and condemning the Procedure of his Enemies, as moft unjuft and deteftable, moft wicked and dangerous Examples for the Electors and other Princes of the Empire, upon whom the like Attempts and Ufurpations may be endeavour'd to be made afterwards. He hopes alfo that all Germany, and even all Chriftendom, will favour the juft Refolution he has taken to defend himself by Arms, in order to prevent and repel the violent Enterprizes of thofe Ufurpers, who have fo unhappily confpir'd his Ruin, and given the Emperor fuch pernicious Counfels, as tend only to the Ufurpation of what is another's, and of the Liberty of Germany; his Majefty being willing favourably to believe, that they have herein exceeded the Powers, Inftructions and Commands of the faid Lord the Emperor, and eluded the good and wholefom Counfels of the Electors and Princes of the Empire.

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A Treaty between Lewis XIII. King of France, and Charles I. King of Great Britain, for the Reftitution of New France, Acadia and Canada, and the Ships and Merchandizes taken on both fides. March 29. 1632.

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'N the first place, on the part of his moft Chriftian Majefty, according to the Powers given by him to the Sieurs de Bovillon, Counsellor of State to the King, and of his Privy Council; and Bouthillier, alfo Counsellor to the King in the faid Councils, and Secretary of his Commands, a Copy whereof fhall be inferted at the end of thefe Prefents; it is promis'd and agreed, that the Sieurs Lumague and Vanelly fhall give Caution and Security in the name of his faid Majefty, and in their own private Names, prefently after the figning and date of these Presents, to pay in the space of two months, counting from the day of the faid Date, to Sir William Wake, Ambaffador of Great Britain, or any one that he fhall appoint, in the City of Paris, the Sum of 64246 Livres, 4 Sols and 3 Deniers, for the Merchandizes and Goods of the Ship call'd James, and the Sum of 69896 Livres, 9 Sols, 2 Deniers, for the Merchandizes of the Ship call'd the Bleffing, the whole at the King's Charges; and that in fifteen days the faid two Ships, the James and the Bleffing, being at prefent in the Port and Harbour of Diep, with their Ropes, Guns, Ammunition,Tackle, Furniture and Victuals, which were found at their Arrival at the faid Diep, shall be restor❜d to the faid Lord Ambaffador of England, or to any one whom he fhall appoint; and if any thing thereof be found wanting, he fhall be paid for it in Specie.

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of the Ship, the Guns, Ammunition, Tackle, Furniture and Victuals of the fame, fhall be paid according as all thefe were fold at Calais; as alfo the Sums to which the reft of the faid Ship, that was found in it when it was taken, fhall have amounted to, fhall be paid upon the foot of the laft Sale made at Calais; for the Payment of which the faid Sieurs Lumage or Vanelly fhall give Caution to pay it at Paris to the faid Lord Ambaffador, or to any one whom he fhall appoint in the forefaid Term.

III. On the part of his Majesty of Great Britain, the faid Lord Ambaffador, by virtue of the Power granted to him, which fhall be inferted at the end of these Prefents, hath promis'd, and doth promife, for and in the name of his faid Majefty, to render and reftore to his moft Chriftian Majefty all the Places poffefs'd in New France, Acadia and Canada, by the Subjects of his Majefty of Great Britain, and caufe them to depart from thofe Places. And for that effect the faid Lord Ambaffador fhall presently, upon paffing and figning these Prefents, deliver to the Commiflioners of the moft Chriftian King, in good Form, the Power which he hath receiv'd from his Majefty of Great Britain, for the Reftitution of the faid Places, together with the Orders of his faid Majefty to fuch as command in Port Royal, Port Quebeck and Cape Briton, to give up the faid Places and Fort, and deliver them into the hands of thofe whom it fhall pleafe his moft Chriftian Majefty to appoint, in eight days after the faid Orders fhall have been notify'd to thofe who do command, or fhall command in the faid Places; the faid fpace of eight days being given them to remove, in the mean time, out of the faid Places and Fort, their Arms, Baggage, Merchandizes, Gold, Silver, Utenfils, and in general every thing that belongs to them to whom, and to all who live in the faid Places, is granted the space of three Weeks after the expiration of the faid eight days, for entering (during the faid time, or fooner if poffible) into their Ships, with their Arms, Ammunition, Baggage, Gold, Silver, Utenfils, Merchandizes, Furs, and in general every thing_belonging to them, in order to depart thence into England, without any longer ftay in the faid Countries.

IV. And it being neceffary the English fhould fend to thofe Places to receive their People, and carry them into England,