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November, 1729, in favour of the Great Duke of Tuscany, as well as of the dutchies of Parma and Placentia, it was likewife provided, that as foon as the most Serene Infante of Spain, Don Carlos, or the Prince to whom his rights may devolve, fhould be in peaceable poffeffion of the fucceffion defigned for him, and fecure from any infults of enemies, and against any juft caufe of fear, then his Royal Catholic Majefty fhould prefently give orders for withdrawing his own troops out of the faid dutchies, but not thofe belonging to the Infante Don Carlos, or to the Prince upon whom, as above-mentioned, his rights may devolve.

The under-written Ministers of the King of Great Britain, and the Lörds the States General, do, by virtue of this prefent inftrument, declare, that as his faid Royal Majefty of Great Britain, and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, are always accustomed to fulfil what they have promised, so it is ftill their meaning and intention, that in the cafes aforefaid, the Spanish troops fhall be immediately withdrawn from the dutchies of Tuscany, Parma, and Placentia.

This declaration is to be kept fecret, but is, nevertheless, to be of the fame force, &c.

Separate Article.

WHEREAS the treaty concluded this day between his Imperial Catholic Majefty, his Britannic Majefty, and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, could not be fubfcribed or figned by the Minifter of the faid States General refiding at the Imperial court, because, according to the custom of the Republic, and the form of its government, the full powers could not be difpatched to the faid Minifter fo foon as was neceffary; it is agreed between his Imperial Majefty, and his Royal Majefty of Great Britain, that the faid States General

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General (there being feveral conditions in the faid treaty, wherein they are particularly concerned) fhall be held and reputed as a principal contracting party, according as they are alfo named in the faid treaty, in firm hope and confidence that they would accede to it, as foon as the ufual form of their government would admit of it. And because the zeal which that Republic manifefts for establishing and fecuring the public tranquillity, leaves their faid Majefties no room to doubt, that the faid Republic is defirous of becoming, as foon as may be, a principal contracting party in the faid treaty, to the end the may partake of the advantages therein ftipulated for her; both their Majefties will therefore unite their endeavours, that this treaty may be figned at the Hague, on the part of the faid States General, within the fpace of three months, to be computed from the day of the figning of the prefent treaty, or fooner if poffible; for it appeared neceffary both to his Imperial and to his Royal Britannic Majefty, in order to obtain the end propofed by the present treaty, and for completing the public tranquillity, that the faid States General fhould enter into a part and partnership of the faid conventions.

This feparate article fhall have the fame force, &c.

A Declaration concerning Eaft Friesland.

THE States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands having, upon feveral occafions, affured his Imperial and Catholic Majefty, that how much foever they are interested in the re-establishment and prefervation of the peace in their neighbourhood, and by confequence that of the province of Eaft Friefland, it was never their intention to prejudice in the least the dependence of the faid province of Eaft Friefland upon the Emperor and the Empire; his faid Imperial and Catholic Majefty, to give the States a fresh proof of his defire to oblige them, as far as is confiftent with juftice, has been pleased to ex

plain to them his true fentiments on that affair, and by that means to recover them from the fears they feem to have received. In order to this, no hesitation has been made to declare to them on his part, by the prefent act, that his intention always was and ftill is,

I. That an amnefty, which he has moft graciously granted to thofe of Embden and their adherents, shall have its entire effect; and therefore that the several pains and penalties pronounced against thofe of Embden and their adherents, upon the fcore of their renitency (refiftance) fhall not be put in execution. And as for those of them which have actually been executed fince the moft gracious acceptance of the submiffion made by the people of Embden and their adherents, the whole fhall be reftored upon the foot it ftood before the faid fubmiffion was accepted, that is to fay, before the 3d of May, 1729, faving what is hereafter mentioned, of an agreement to indemnify thofe for their loffes, who were plundered during the late troubles.

II. His Imperial and Catholic Majefty having, by his refolution of the 12th of September, 1729, moft graciously permitted thofe of the town of Embden, and their adherents, to draw up a fresh account of their grievances, or matters wherein they thought themfelves aggrieved by the decrees of 1721, and the years following, concerning the ground of the affairs upon which they differed with the Prince; and the faid grievances having been afterwards exhibited to the Imperial Aulic Council, with all fubmiffion, the

of November the fame year; his faid Majefty has already ordained, by his moft gracious refolution of the 31st of Auguft, that thofe grievances fhould be examined as foon as poffible.. And, as it has been often declared, it has been and ftill is his conftant defire, that they should be determined and decided with all the juftice and difpatch that is poffible, according to the agreements, conventions, and decifions, which

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make the particular law of the province of East Friefland, and which are referred to in the Prince's reverfal letters, paffed and fworn to at his acceffion to the regency: provided, nevertheless, that under the denomination of thofe agreements, conventions, and decifions, none be comprehended which were abrogated and annulled by his Imperial Majefty's august predeceffors in the Empire, or which ftrike at the fupreme rights of the Emperor and the Empire over the province of Eaft Friefland. And his Imperial and Catholic Majefty, as a farther proof of his moft gracious intention to cut as fhort as justice will admit him, the examination of the grievances of the people of Embden, and their adherents, has already ordained, by his refolution of the 31st of Auguft last year, that, as foon as the account thereof is delivered to thofe who are properly to take cognizance of the fame, according to the tenor of the refolution above-mentioned, they fhall anfwer it very foon, and once for all; after which his Imperial Majefty, with the advice of his Imperial Aulic Council, will redress every complaint, article by article, which fhall appear to be grounded on the agreements above-mentioned.

III. It having been already ordained, pursuant to his Imperial and Catholic Majefty's laft refolution of the 31st of Auguft, 1730, that the people of the town of Embden, and their adherents, ought to be admitted into the Affembly of the States, which is to be called together to deliberate freely upon the affairs that lie before them; his Imperial and Catholic Majefty will take care that this refolution fhall have its intire effect, and that none of those who have a right to affift therein be excluded, contrary to the tenor of it.

IV. As to the indemnification, his Imperial Majeftv thinks it proper, that an account be taken of the damages, which, according to the tenor of the amnesty published the in the year 1728, and of the refolution

refolution of the 12th of September, 1729, ought to be made good by the renitents; and that the faid account be communicated to them, that they may make their objections after which, his Imperial and Catholic Majefty will caufe the difference to be amicably adjusted, or, on failure of an accommodation, will, with the utmost equity, fix the fum which fhall be required to make good the damages fuftained.

V. His Imperial and Catholic Majefty perfifts in the intention he always had to take particular care of the payment of the intereft of the fums which the States of Eaft Friesland, and of the town of Embden, have borrowed of the subjects of the United Provinces, as alfo of the reimbursement of the capital, according to the engagements entered into on that ac

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HE more ancient treaties, between England and France, which are fre1632. quent and numerous, may be seen in Rym. Fæd, vol. i. part ii. p. 50.

vol. iii. part ii. p. 3.

vol. iv. part iii. p. 171.

vol. vi.

part ii.

vol. xii. p. 690.

P. 88.

vol. xv. p. 211-640.

vol. xvi. p. 645.

vol. xix. p. 66.

Corps Dip. tom. vi. part. i. p. 31-33.

Pap. Off. B. 11.

Treat. 1732, vol. ii. p. 41-310.

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