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whole English Nation, and to the Assistance of year great and powerful Fleet, and your brave and valiant Troops, under the Command of the Earl of Peterborough. This City has thought fit, with great Chearfulness, to throw themselves at your Royal Majesty's Feet, to render you their due Acknowledgments, and most humble and respectful Thanks; for your Majesty having been graciously pleas'd to make the Cause of the King our Lord so much, assuring your Majesty, that, in Gratitude for this Royal Favour, this City in every thing, that may be within their Power and Abilities, for your Majesty's Royal Service, will apply themselves to it with the true Zeal and Attention which becomes their grateful sence of your Majesty's Goodness: confessing, that all the Glory is due to your Majesty, to whom the Christian World will owe its Tranquillity, and this City their Liberty. May God preserve your Majesty's Sacred and Royal Person, for which, we, the fathful Subjects of the Lord and King Charles III. do humbly pray, and which we judg necessary.
Barcelona, Octob. 24. 1705.
Her Majesty likewise receiv'd two Letters more to the same Effect, one from the Consistory of the Deputies, and the Auditors General of the Accounts of the whole Principality of Catalonia; the other from the military Arm of the said Principality and Counties.
In the Letter from the Earl of Peterborough to her Majesty there are these words.
«I do not sollicit your Majesty for the necessary Supports of all Kinds for this happy Beginning; your Allies, and your Parliament, can never abandon
