not confidering the Duty of his Allegiance, but having withdrawn his due Obedience from her faid late Majesty, did at several Times, in the faid Years of our Lord 1710, 1711, and 1712, falfely, maliciously, wickedly, and traiterously aid, help, affist, and adhere to the faid Duke of Anjou, then an Enemy to her faid late Majesty, and against her faid Majefty, and in Execution and Performance of his faid aiding, helping, affifting, and adhering, and in Confederacy and Combination with the then Enemies of her late Majefty, and with divers other wicked and evil-difpos'd Perfons, did at feveral Times, in the Years aforefaid, advife and coun fel the Enemies of her late Majefty against her faid Majefty; and in fuch counselling and advifing, did concert with them, and did promote the yielding and giving up Spain and the Weft-Indies, or fome Part thereof, to the faid Duke of Anjou, then in Enmity with her Majefty, against the Duty of his Allegiance, and the Laws and Statutes of this Realm.

All which Crimes and Mifdemeanors, were committed and done by him the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke a gainst our late Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Crown and Dignity, the Peace and Intereft of this Kingdom, and in Breach of the feveral Trufts repos'd in him the faid Vifcount, and he the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, was one of her Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State, and one of her Privy Council, during the Time that all and every the Crimes before fet forth, were done and commitred.

For which Matters, and Things, the Knights, Citizens and Burgeffes of the House of Commons in Parliament affembled, do, in the Name of themselves, and of all the Commons of Great Britain, impeach the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke of High Treafon, and other High Crimes and Mifdemeanors in the faid Articles contain'd; and the faid Commons, by Proteftation faving to themfelves the Liberty of exhibiting, at any Time hereafter, any other Accufations or Impeachments against the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, and alfo of replying to the Anfwers which the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke shall make to the Premiffes, or any of them, or to any Impeachment or Accufation, that fhall be by them exhibited, according to the Courfe and Proceedings of Parliament, do pray, that the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, be put to answer all and every the Premiffes; and that fuch Proseedings, Examinations, Trials, and Judgments may be

upon them, and every of them, had and used, as fhall be agreeable to Law and Juftice: And they do further pray and demand, that the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, may be fequeftred from Parliament, and forthwith committed to fafe Cuftody.

The fame Day, Aug. 6. the Lords fent a Meffage to acquaint the Commons, that their Lordships had order'd Henry Viscount Bolingbroke to be forthwith attach'd, by the Gentleman Usher of the Black-Rod attending the Houfe of Lords, and brought to their Lordships Bar, to answer the Articles exhibited against him by the House of Commons: But the Lord Bolingbroke had long before confulted for his Safety by retiring into France. As to the Duke of Ormond, the Night between the 20th and 21st of July, he went from his House at Richmond, accompany'd only by one Renauld, his Confectioner; and embarking privately on board a Veffel, on the Coast of Kent, a few Days after landed in France.

On the 8th of August, the ingroffed Articles against his Grace were read, upon which it was order'd, ift, that Mr. Secretary Stanhope do carry the faid Articles to the Lords; 2dly, that Mr. Secretary Stanhope be directed, before he exhibits the faid Articles to the Lords, to impeach James Duke of Ormond to the fame Effect, and in the fame Form, as was before recited, in Relation to Henry Viscount Bolingbroke: Which Mr. Secretary did, the fame Day, accordingly. The Articles against his Grace are as follows:

Articles of Impeachment of High Treafon, and other High Crimes and Mifdemeanours, against James Duke of Ormond.

Art. I.

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HAT whereas James Duke of Ormond, in or about the Month of April 1712, being appointed General of the Forces in the Netherlands of her late Majesty Queen Anne, with Orders to profecute the War against France with all poffible Vigour, in Conjunction with her faid Majefty's Allies; and having, by her faid Majefty's Directions, and in her Name, given her faid Allies the moft folemn Affurances to that Purpofe, was thereupon admitted into the Counfels, and made privy to the most fecret Designs of the Generals of the Confederate Army against the common Enemy, and of the Measures they thought most proper to carry on the War with Succefs; and whereas, in the Year 1712, the faid War was carry'd on between her faid late Majefty and the faid French King, and during all the faid Year the War did continue, and

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for all that Time the faid French King and his Subjects were Enemies of her late Majefty, he the faid James Duke of Ormond, then General of her Majesty's Army, and a Subject of her Majefty, not confidering the Duty of his Allegiance, but having withdrawn his true and due Obedience from her faid late Majefty, and Affections from his Country, did, during the faid War, falfly, maliciously, wickedly, and traiteroufly aid, help, affift, and adhere to the faid French King, against her faid late Majefty; and in Execution of his faid aiding, helping, and adhering, maliciously, falfly, and traiterously, contrary to the Duty of his Allegiance, and the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, did, on or about the 26th of May 1712, fend private Intelligence and Information to Marthal Villars, then an Enemy to her faid late Majefty, and General of the French King's Army, against her Majesty and her Allies, of a March the Army of her faid late Majefty and her Allies was then going to make, and of the Designs of the faid Army in making the March.

Art. II. That whereas in or about the Month of May 1712, a traiterous Defign was carry'd on between Henry St. John Efq; one of her faid late Majefty's principal Secretaries of State, and other evil-difpofed Perfons, and the Minifters of France, to defeat the juft Expectations of the great Advantages over the common Enemy, her Majefty and the Nation had the reason to hope for, from the great Superiority of the Confederate Forces in the NetherLands, to obtain which, very large Sums of Money had been cheerfully given by the Parliament; and to that End, the faid Henry St. John had given fecret Affurances to the French Minifters, that her Majefty's General in the Netherlands (tho' under the moft folemn Engagements to act vigorously in concert with the Allies) fhould not act against France; and had alfo engaged the faid James Duke of Ormond, to concur in the faid wicked Purposes; which evil Practices of the faid Henry St. John and others, when they were firft fufpected, giving the greatest Alarm to the Minds of the Allies, to the Parliament, and to the whole Kingdom, and being thereupon openly difavowed by all the Confpifators in the most publick Manner; he the faid James Duke of Ormond, in order to disguise, and conceal from her faid late Majefty, and the whole Kingdom, the faid traiterous Defigns then carry'd on by the faid Henry St. Jolm, and other falfe Traitors to her Majefty and their Country, in Aid and Comfort of the French King, then in open War with, and an Enemy of her faid late Majesty,

did, by his Letter of the 25th of May 1712, to the faid Henry St. John, then her Majefty's principal Secretary of State, call'd his publick Letter, because prepared and intended to be read before her faid Majefty and her Council, wickedly, falfly, and treacherously abufe and impofe upon her faid Majefty and her Council, by affirming and declaring therein, that if he found an Opportunity to bring the Enemy to a Battle, he should not decline it, altho' by a private Letter writ by the faid James Duke of Ormond, of the fame Date, and to the faid Henry St. John, defigned to be read to the faid Henry St. John and the Confpirators only, he the faid James Duke of Ormond, did, on the contrary, wickedly promife and engage, that he would not attack or moleft the French Army, or engage in any Siege against France.

Art. III. That he the faid James Duke of Ormond, in or about the Month of June 1712, being at that Time General of her Majefty's Forces against France, and a Subject of her Majefty, nor confidering the Duty of his Allegiance, but having altogether withdrawn the cordial Love and due Qbedience which every faithful Subject owed to her faid Majefty, and devoting himself to the Service of France, and defigning to give Aid and Comfort to the French King and his Subjects, then in open War with, and Enemies to her faid late Majefty, in Violation of the many Treaties of Alliance between Great Britain and feveral other Princes and States, for carrying on the War against France, and of the faid Inftructions to him on or about the 7th of April 1712, under the Sign-Manual, in Pursuance thereof, and of the folemn Declaration he had but lately before, by her faid Majesty's Command, and in her Name, made to the Penfionary of Holland, and the Generals of the Confederate Army, to push on the War with all pofile Vigour: And alfo in open and manifest Violation of the laft Order, fent him by a Letter from the faid Henry St. John, on or about the 7th of June 1712, whereby the faid James Duke of Ormond was directed to make no Ceflation of Arms with the French, unless the Articles demanded by her Majefty, and exprefly mention'd and fet down in the faid Letter for the faid Ceflation, hould be comply'd with by France; and whereby he the faid James Duke of Ormond, was likewife further exprefly directed and told, that in Cafe the Conditions therein mentioned were not comply'd with by France; that then he was entirely free from Restraint, and at Liberty to take all reafonable Measures in his Power, for annoying the Enemy, and at full Liberty of acting against France, did,

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on or about the 25th of June aforefaid, falfly, maliciously, wickedly, and traiteroufly aid, help, aflift, and adhere to the French King, against her faid late Majefty, and then in open War with her Majefty: And in Execution of the said aiding and affifting, helping and adhering to, and in Pursuance of a wicked Promife he had fecretly made the fame Day to Marefchal Villars, General of the French Army, to that purpofe, malicioufly, falfly, and traiterously, contrary to the Duty of his Allegiance, and the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, did advise and endeavour to per fuade the Generals of the Confederate Army against France, and the Deputies of the States General, to raise the Siege of Quesnoy, a French Town then befieg'd by them; and did then further traiterously and wickedly refufe to act any longer against France; and then alfo traiteroufly and wickedly told the faid Generals of the faid Confederate Army, and the faid States Deputies, that he could no longer cover the Siege of Quefnoy, but was obliged by his Inftructions to march off with the Queen's Troops, and thofe in her Majefty's Pay: Whereas in Truth, and the Commons exprefly charge, that he the faid James Duke of Ormond, did traiterously and wickedly make the faid Declaration, and refufed to act against France, in manifeft Contradiction, not only to his original Orders, but alfo of the faid Letter to him of the 7th of June, from the faid Henry St. John, fince none of the Articles demanded by her Majefty for a Cessation of Arms, and exprefs'd in the faid Letter to be the Condition without which no Ceffation of Arms was to be made, had been comply'd with by the French. And in further Execution of his faid traiterous Defigns, he the faid James Duke of Ormond, by a Letter to the faid Marhal Villars, on the 24th of June aforefaid, did traiterously, and wickedly fend Intelligence to the faid Marshal Vil lars of the beforementioned Pafliges, between the faid James Duke of Ormond, and the Generals of the Confederate Army, and the States Deputies, and how his Propofitions were received by them; and alfo of the Difpofition he obferv'd in the foreign Troops to adhere to the faid Confederates in Cafe of a Separation by the Troops of Great Britain.

Art. IV. That he the faid James Duke of Ormond, did not only wickedly, and falfly affirm to the Generals of the Confederate Army, and the States Deputies, that his Refufal to act any longer against France, and to cover the Siege of Quesnoy was in Purfuance of the Inftructions he had received for that Purpofe; but alfo to induce the faid

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