STATE PAPERS,
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towards his Majefty and all others, Eremervorde, the council of Ver-
of whatfoever ibey {hall be found failles was already employed in
to owe, by producing receipts from framing it; and the faid decree
the faid John Faidy, his attornies, implies in clear and precife terms,
receivers, and general cafhiers of that it was determined in the
the accounts they Ihall have given council of Verfailles, to change
in at the lime they fnall be ba- the government and fyflem of the
lanced and acquitted : I: is his ma- eleftcrate of Hanover, notwich-
jefty's will, that any difputes that Handing vvhat was exprefsly pro-
ihall arife with regard to the di- mifed by the capitulation made the
reclion, receipt, and general admi- pthof Auguft, 1757, upon th:" fur~
niftration of the duties and re- render of the capital, and that the
venues of what nature foever they adminiiiration herein mentioned,
be, of the elcdorate of Hanover, with which the faid John Faidy is
countries, llates, provinces, towns, charged, was to extend itfelf to the
diftricts, commonalties, and admi- countries which might hereafter be
niftrations, wherewith the faid John conquered.
Faidy is charged, appurtenances If this confefTion, made by the
and dependencies thereof, be crown of France itfelf, cannot but
brought before the intendant and be confidered as an undeniable
commiiTary, who has the depart- proof, that the fame crown had
ment of the conquered country, a premeditated defign of making
and adjudged by him, faving an an ill ufe of the cefiation of arms,
appeal to the council, his majeity in order to proceed in taking pof-
referving to it the determination feilion of the provinces they had
thereof, and forbidding the fame not yet feized upon, when the
to all courts and judges : His ma- ceiTation of arms was concluded,
jefty enjoins the faid intendant and bring to utter deltrudtion the
and commifTary of the faid de- eledorate of Hanover, without
partment, to fupport the execution leaving the fovereign thereof any
of the prefent decree, which (hall method of preferving it; neither
be executed, notwithllanding all can any one diipute, but that great
oppofition and hindrances, of weight is hereby added to the
which, if any fhould happen, his motives, which have induced the
majelly referves to himftlf and king, our fovereign, to take up
his council the cognizance, and arms afrefli, and which have aU
■forbids the fame to ail courts and ready been laid open to the eyes of
judges. the public. Done at the King's council of
ftate, held at Verfailles the Lewis Fra. Armand du Pleffis,
i8th of the month of Oclober, Duke de Richelieu, General of the
1757. French army in Germany.
(Signed) Eynard, The breaking of the capitula,
and compared with the paraphe. tion of Clo^er-feven, in fpite of
It appears from the date of this the moll folemn treaty, and the
decree, and by what is faid therein, word of honour given by the gene-
ihat, in the weeks immediately rals, renders void the treaty made
fubfeque.nt to the convention of with the country of Hanover, whea
the
