ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758.
230
September 28. * Your excellency has too well obferved, during your refidence here, how faith- fully we have afted, and how ar- dently we have defired tocontinue the negotiation begun, to pave the way to more particular expla- nations, and to the relief which the ftates of the king Hand fo much in need of. Your excel- lency, 1 fay, has too well ob- ferved all this, to make the lead doubt that the hopes which you gave occafion to, in your letter of the 27th, are not entirely agreeable to the miniftry, who are under the greateft obligations to your excellency for the zeal which you fhew in this affair, and the care which you have pro- mifedtotake. As to a more par- ticular convention mentioned to us by your excellency, 1 fhall conform entirely to what his royal
- determined with regard to time,
- firft fuppofes that the principal
- negotiation will follow, and that
- equitable terms will be granted
- on both fides. The promife of
- theKing,theDukeof Brunfwick,
- and the J>andgrave of Hefie,
- not to employ their troops du-
- ring the prefent troubles, muft be
- founded upon the hopes, that in
' confideration thereof their ftates ' (hall be delivered from the op-
- preflion under which they at pre»
- fent groan, and that no pretences
- (hall be made to put ofF this con-
- dition till a general peace, which
- a feries of unforefeen events, of
- which the prefent year has fur-
- nifhed fo great a number, may
- long prevent.'
LalHy, it is plain that France herfelf underllood the convention in the very fame fenfe. For whe- ther the hands of the Hanoverians
highnefs theDukeof Cumberland were tied up by the fufpenfion of
Ihall fignify on that head. I add, however, that the king's mi- nilter has feen, with great plea- fure, the efforts which your ex- cellency, who hath fo fure and ex-
arms concluded at Clofter-feven, till a general peace, or whether the ftate of inadtion was only to laft till it (hould be feen whether the king, as eleflor, could obtain a tenfive a kno'vledge, hath made particular accommodation : In the to bring things to a formal former cafe, and if that obligation negotiation. And as there is the exilted already, why did France in- greateft reafon to think, that the fill upon having it Itipulated by the exhibition of full powers will, fcheme of explanation propofed by with this view, be infifted upon. Count deLynar. And in the other, the miniftry make no doubt the king muft have been at liberty but your excellency will take to put an end to the truce when all pofTible care to caufe thofe there were no hopes left of obtain- of Marfhal Richelieu, or of any ing a particular peace. In a word, other, to extend farther than to a if we but fimply confider the con- negotiation ^7^/»?m»i, and con- ventionof Clofter-fevren, both thefe fequently to an entire conclufion points are inconteftible. If the of the accommodation which they convention was a fufpenfion of have in view. The articlei con- arms, a military regulation, the tained in yourexcellency'slchcme duration of which depended upon of explanation will furnifh fuf- the fuccefs of the propofals for ficient arguments on this head, a particular peace, it might then as every fufpenfion of arms un- be revoked when the courts of
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