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THE

Historical Register,

CONTAINING

An impartial RELATION of all
TRANSACTIONS, both Civil and Mili-
tary, Foreign and Domeftick, that hap-
pen'd during the firft Seventeen Months
of the Reign of King GE OR GE.

VOLUME II.

Wherein is contain'd,

I. Articles of Impeachment against Henry Viscount Boling-
broke,

II. Articles of Impeachment against James Duke of Ormond.
III. Articles of Impeachment against Thomas Earl of
Strafford.

IV. Anfwer of Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
to the Articles of Impeachment exhibited against him.
V. Proceedings of the General Affembly of the Church
of Scotland, in the Year 1715.

VI. Treaty of Peace and Commerce, concluded at Utrecht,
between Philip V.King of Spain, and the States-General.
VII. Treaty of Peace fign'd at Baden, between the Em-
peror and the Most Christian King.

VIII.. Treaty of Peace concluded at Utrecht, between the
Kings of Spain and Portugal.

IX. A General Review of the State of Affairs in Europe,
as they stood at the Beginning of the Year 1715.

X. The Renewal of the Alliance between the King of
France and the Catholick Cantons of Sawitzerland.
XI. A General Review of the Affairs of Europe, as they
ftood at the Beginning of the Year 1716.

XII. A Chronological Diary, &c.

LONDON: Printed, and Sold by C. Meere in the
Old Baily. M.DCC.XXIV.

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ARTICLES of Impeachment of High Treafon and other High Crimes and Misdemeanours, against Henry Viscount Bolingbroke.

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HEREAS a Treaty of Alliance was made and concluded on or about the 7th Day of Sept. 1701, between Leopold, then Emperor of Germany, his late Majefty King William III. of ever glorious Memory, and their High Might ineffes the States-General of the United Provinces, for repelling the Greatness of the common Danger which threaten'd all Europe, from the Duke of Anjou's having taken Poffeffion of the Monarchy of Spain; wherein it was, among other Things, agreed, That in Cafe the faid Confederates shall be forced to enter into a War, they fhall communicate their Defigns to one another, as well in Relation to the Actions of the War, as all other Things wherein the common Caufe is concerned; and that it shall not be permitted to either Party, when the War is once begun, to treat of Peace with the Enemy, unless jointly and by a Communication of Councils: And in and by a defenfive Treaty and Alliance, made and concluded in or about the Month of November 1701, between his faid late Majefty King William III. and the States-General, it was, among other things, exprefly agreed, That when the War is begun, the faid Confederates fhall act in Concert, according to the 7th and 8th Articles of the Treaty of the 3d of March 1677, between England and Holland, and that no Peace, nor Truce, or Sufpenfion of Arms, hall be negociated or made, but according to the 9th and 10th VOL. II.

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Articles of that Treaty, by which it was agreed, That when the Allies came once to open War, it shall be lawful for neither of them afterwards to come to any Seffation of Arms with him who shall be declared and proclaimed an Enemy, without it be done conjointly and with common Confent, and that no Negociation of Peace fhall be fet on foot by one of the Allies, without the Concurrence of the other, and that each Ally shall continually and from Time to Time impart to the other every thing that paffes in the faid Negociation. And in and by a Treaty enter'd into and concluded, on or about the Month of June 1703, between her late Majefty Queen Anne of ever blef fed Memory, and the States-General, it was, among other Things, agreed, That all Treaties and Alliances then fubfifting between them should be returned and confirmed: And whereas a long, bloody, and expenfive War, had been carry'd on by her late Majefty, in Conjunction with her faid Allies, and other Confederate Princes, against France and Spain, as well in Refentment of the Indignity offered to thefe Kingdoms, by their having acknowledged the Pretender King of thefe Realms, as for obtaining a juft Satiffaction to his Imperial Majefty, and for the Prefervation of the Proteftant Religion and the Ballance and Liberties of Europe; and from the great Succeffes with which it had pleafed Almighty God to blefs the Confederate Arms, they had juft Reafon to hope for an honourable, safe, and lafting Peace; and altho' the French King was encouraged, in or about the Month of April 1711, to make Propofitions of Peace to her late Majefty, figned by Monfieur de Torcy, his Secretary of State, which her faid Majesty having pleased to communicate to the Minifters of the StatesGeneral, he did, however, graciously declare, by Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, then Henry St. John Efq; and one of her principal Secretaries of State, her Sentiments to them, that the faid Propofitions were too general, and, at the fame Time, the faid Viscount did, in her Majefty's Name, and by her fpecial Command, give them her utmost and most folemn Affurances, that in making Peace, as in making War, fhe would act in perfect Concert with them: In which Sentiments the States concurring with her Majefty, reciprocal Affurances of mutual Confidence, fo neceffary to prevent the Defigns of the Enemy, were returned by them to her Majefty: Notwithstanding which,

Art. I. He the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, then being one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, and of her most honourable Privy Council, but having enter'd into a most treacherous Confederacy with the Mini

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fters and Emiffaries of France, to fruftrate the juft Hopes and Expectations of her Majefty and her People, by difuniting the Confederacy, at the most critical Juncture, when they were ready to reap the Fruits of fo many Triumphs over the common Enemy, and moft wickedly intending, as far as in him lay, to enable the French King, fo exhausted and vanquished as he had been, on all Occafions, to carry bis Defigns by a Peace glorious to him, and to the Ruin of the victorious Allies, and the Destruction of the Liberties of all Europe; and having no Regard to the folemn Treaties her Majesty then flood engaged in, nor to the Honour or Safety of thefe Kingdoms, did, in or about the Months of July or Auguft, in the Year of our Lord 1711, maliciously and wickedly form a most treacherous and pernicious Contrivance and Confederacy with other evil-difpofed Perfons, then alfo of her Majesty's Privy Council, to fet on foot a private, feparate, difhonourable, and destructive Negociation of Peace, between Great Britain and France, without any Communication thereof to her Majesty's Allies, according to their faid feveral Treaties; and was not only wanting in his Duty and Truft to her Majefty, by not oppofing, and, as far as was in his Power, by not advifing her Majefty against going into any private, feparate Negociation with France, but in Execution of his Purposes aforefaid, he the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, did advife her late Majesty to fend Matthew Prior Efq; directly to the Court of France, to make Propofitions of Peace, without communicating the fame to her Majefty's Allies; and accordingly the faid Matthew Prior, by the Advice and with the Privity of him the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, and other falfe and evil Counsellors, in or about the Months of July or Auguft, in the Year of our Lord 1711, was fent in a clandeftine Manner from England to France, and did communicate the faid Propofitions of Peace to the Minifters of France, in which the particular Interefts of Great Britain, as well as the common Intereft of Europe, were fhamefully betrayed; and in Manifeftation of his faid Defign to exclude her Majefty's Allies from their juft Share in the faid Negociation, an exprefs Article was inferted in the faid Propofitions, by the Privity and Advice of him the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, that the Secret fhould be inviolably kept till allowed to be divulged by the mu tual Confent of both Parties; altho' the French King had, in the Propofitions figned by Monfieur de Torcy, and tranf mitted in the Month of April preceding, offered to treat

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