Soldiers detain'd contrary to the Tenour of the Cartel, has been pleased to condefcend to the following Articles :

I. The Ministers Plenipotentiaries of the most Serene Arbitrators fhall immediately proceed to the Examination of the Men reclaim'd on the King's Part, as Elector of Hanover, who are now at Brunswick: And immediately after that Examination, they fhall determine whether they all ought to be restored to his Majesty, or whether fome of them should be excepted.

II. After this Decifion, the faid Minifters Plenipotentiaries fhall caufe the Prufian Subaltern Officers and Soldiers, feiz'd by Way of Reprizal, to be fet at Liberty; and the next Day, they fhall caufe fuch of the Men as are reclaim'd on the Part of his Majesty, as Elector of Hanover, and are adjudged to him by that Decifion, to be deliver'd to the Perfons authoriz'd by his Majefty for that Purpose.

III. Provided nevertheless, that his Pruffian Majesty fhall likewife agree to the foregoing Articles, and declare beforehand to the Congrefs of Brunswick, that all the Differences referr'd to the faid Congrefs are thereby terminated, and that no other Pretenfion whatsoever fhall be ftarted there.

Soon after this Declaration, the Congress of Brunswick broke up, the Prifoners on both Sides were exchang'd, and the Minifters of the respective Courts return'd home. The Dukes of Saxe-Gotha and Brunswick-Lunenburgh, who were chofen Arbitrators of the Parties concern'd, made a Declaration in Writing, fign'd the 18th of April, which we shall infert here, to let the Reader fee how thofe Differences, which threatned the North Part of the Empire with a fatal War, have been terminated.

Tranflation of the Declaration of the Dukes of Saxe-Gotha and Brunfwick, concerning the Differences between the Kings of Pruffia and Great Britain, terminated at Brunfwick in the Month of April, 1739.

OME Differences having lately happen'd between

rick-William King of Pruffia, Margrave of Brandenburg, Arch-Chamberlain and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Sovereign Prince of Orange, Neufchatel, and Vallengin, on the one Part; and the most Illuftrious and most

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Potent Prince George II. King of Great Britain, &c. Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. on the other Part; which might have been of dangerous Confequence, if their Majesties, who have nothing more at Heart than the Maintenance of the publick Tranquillity, and the Prefervation of their own Subjects and Territories, had not, by the particular Providence of God, taken the Refolution to refer thofe Differences to the Arbitration and Decifion of two Princes of the Empire. We Frederick Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, and we AuguftusWilliam Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg, were chofen for that Purpose, by their Majefties the Kings of Pruffia and Great Britain, and were duly requested not only to fend our Minifters, without Lofs of Time, to Brunswick, as the Place nominated for holding the Congrefs, and declared Neutral with regard to thofe Negotiations, in order to meet there; but alfo that we Duke Frederick fhould cause a Detachment of our Troops to conduct to Brunswick the Men reclaim'd by the King of Great Britain, there to be kept 'till the breaking up of the Con grefs, preferving nevertheless, during that Time, the free and entire Difpofition as well of the Perfons reclaim'd, as of the faid Detachment: And that we Duke Auguftus-William, on the other Side, fhould likewife or der a Detachment to conduct to Brunswick the Subaltern Officers and Soldiers kept under Arrest at Hanover, there to be guarded by our Garrifon 'till the End of the Congref's; the whole conformably to the Conventions of the 24 and 6th of September, and the 2d of October laft. After we had, for the Advancement of the publick Welfare, and to give Inftances of our particular Efteem for their Majeflies, accepted of that Request, and in Confequence thereof had conducted the Perfons at the Time appointed, and kept them at Brunfwick ever fince, aocording to the reciprocal Convention, we nominated our Plenipotentiary Minifters, to wit,

M. Chriftian d'Uffeln, Privy-Counfellor, and Col. Elias de Niephagen; who, after the Plenipotentiaries of the two Kings, to wit, M. Chriftian Otto Mylius, PrivyCounsellor of Juftice and War, and Auditor-General of of Pruffia, and M. Francis Conrad Hotze, Counsellor of Hanover, and Auditor-General, had produced fufficient Informations and Proofs in Writing of the neceffary Cir• cumilances of the Affair, have at lait, by God's Affiftance, terminated that Affair, to the Tranquillity of a large

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Country in Germany; and we have thought fit to make known our Thoughts of that Matter, in Writing, and tơ publish it fairly as a Mediation and Decifion.

Therefore, in regard an amicable Agreement has been made, conformably to the Declaration exhibited by the Plenipotentiaries of the two Kings refpectively, the 3d and 4th of April, as well in relation to the 202 Pruffians reclaim'd, as to a farther Claim referved on the Part of his Britannick Majefty; as alfo touching the Exchange of the Pruffian Subalterns and Soldiers arrested, which is to be made before the other: We Frederick Duke of SaxeGotha, &c. and we Auguftus-William Duke of BrunswickLunenburg, do declare, that it is agreeable to Juftice and Equity, that of the Men reclaim'd on the Part.of the King of Great Britain, who are actually guarded by the Detachment of Saxe-Gotha, 18 be restored to his Pruffian Majefty, and 20 Perfons to his Britannick Majefty [Here the Names of thofe Perfons were inferted.] who fhall be delivered the Day after the Exchange of the Pruffian Subalterns and Soldiers, to their Majesties two Plenipotentiaries authoriz'd for that Purpose: And that the 150 Rixdollars that were confifcated, be restored to the Student Gaufen, as his Pruffian Majefty has already order'd. But as for the Perfons [Here were inferted the Names of the twelve Perfons.] who, though reclaim'd, could not be conducted to Brunswick, the Certificates and Documents produced on the Part of his Pruffian Majefty in that refpect are acknowledg'd to be fufficient. However, their Majefties referve to themfelves their refpective Pretenfions, in Cafe any of the faid Perfons can be recover'd.

In Witnefs whereof, we have fign'd the prefent Decifion, in Quality of Princes of the Empire, chofen for that Purpofe, and have caufed the Seal of our Arms to be affix'd thereto. Done at Fridenftein the 16th of April, and at Wolfembuttle the 18th of April, 1730.

Sign'd,

Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Gotha. Auguftus-William, Duke of Brunfwick-Lunenburg.

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FRANCE.

FRANC E.

HE moft Chriftian King having refolved to publish Ta a Declaration, in order to fupprefs all Difputes about Janfenifm and the Constitution Unigenitus, the faid Declaration was Sign'd and Seal'd the 24th of March. And his Majefty refolved to go to the Parliament of Paris, and hold his Bed of Justice, to cause the faid Declaration to be register'd in his Prefence. The first Prefident, and the King's Attorney and Solicitor-General were fent for to Verfailles, and acquainted with the King's Declaration and his Majesty's Defign, and it's faid they made ftrong Reprefentations against it, but the King remain'd inflexible. And on the 3d of April, N. S. his Majefty went with the ufual Solemnity to the Parliament, and fitting under a Canopy in his Bed of Juftice, the Chancellor acquainted the Attorney with the King's Intention, and the Motives that had induced him to come thither and hold his Bed of Juftice. The first Prefident having made a Speech in the Name of the Parliament, the Chancellor took the Votes of the Parliament, and having communicated the fame to the King, he pronounced the Registering of the following Declaration.

LEWIS, 9c.. To all to whom these Presents shall

come, Greeting. After the Divifions and Troubles, which the refufing to fubmit to the Bull Unigenitus had occafion'd in the Church of France, we had Reason to hope in the Year 1720, to fee the Peace thereof happily restored: Explanations drawn up with a Spirit of Concord and Charity, approved by all the Cardinals, all the Archbishops, and almoft all the Bishops of our Kingdom, who had accepted the Conftitution, nay, adopted by most of the Prelates who had at first hefitated to receive it, left no Pretence for thofe, who affecting to decry it by Interpretations contrary to its true Senfe, were willing to plead them in Excufe for their Refi ftance. It was under these favourable Circumstances that we thought fit to publish our Declaration of the 4th of Auguft 1720; whereby at the fame Time that on the one hand we order'd the Bull Unigenitus to be observed according to its Form and Tenour throughout our Dominions, and forbid every Thing that was contrary to the

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fame; we on the other Hand took the likeliest Precautions to fecure the Repofe and Tranquillity of fuch of our Subjects as should make their Prejudices give Way to the Authority of the Head and Body of Chief Pastors: We have indeed had the Satisfaction to fee entire Bodies, and a great Number of Subjects of different Orders of the Church of France come into thefe Sentiments, and edify her by the Sincerity of their Return; but we know, that not all who imitated them in their Refiftance, have as yet follow'd the Example of their Submiffion; and we fee with Difpleasure, that there are even fome, who instead of making a right Ufe of our Indulgence, did all they could to blow up the Flame we thought to have extinguish'd by our Declaration. They not only threw in new Appeals, and took the fame Liberty to attack the Constitution without ceafing, by Libels equally injurious to the Pope, the Bishops, and the whole Church, and contrary to the Refpect that is due to our Authority: but they went fo far, as to call in Question the Power vefted in the Bishops to inftruct the Faithful in the Submiffion they owe to the Bull Unigenitus, and to examine the Sentiments and Difpofitions of the Clergy, when they apply to them either for Admiffion into Holy Orders, or for Vifa, or Canonical Inftitutions. Neither is it at the Constitution Unigenitus alone, that the Enemies of that Bull and of Peace are ftriking; they are petpetually attacking, directly or indirectly, the Conftitutions of the Popes that condemn'd the Five Propofitions drawn from Janfenius's Book, or that prescribed the Signing of the Formulary; they revive the frivolous Subtleties that were invented to elude the Obfervation of thofe Bulls; they cry up the Diftinction between Fact and Right, and turning to a bad Ufe what was done in the Pontificate of Clement XI. they constantly undertake the Defence of the cautious Silence upon the Article of Janfenius, though declared infufficient by the Bull Vineam Domini Sabaoth, publifh'd by Clement XI. and unanimously accepted by all the Pre lates of our Kingdom. We ought not therefore to divide Two Objects, which, tho' different, are but too clofely united in the Minds of moft of thofe that make it their Study to perpetuate the prefent Troubles in the Church; and fince they oblige us to explain our Intenions more at large with Regard to the Execution of the Bull Unigenitus, we think we ought at the fame Time to take new Precautions against thofe perverfe Spirits,

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