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have the Glory to co-operate in so honourable an Undertaking, as the Establishing the Liberty and Felicity of their Native Country, the said most Serene Queen, has been pleased to Command me to declare a-new her Royal Pleasure, That I shou'd in her Name, Succour and Support them accordingly; by these Presents I declare and publish, That all the Generals, Commanders, Officers, Soldiers, &c. of the Saniards, of whatsoever Degree they may be, that will leave the Service of the Duke of Anjou, and give all due Obedience to his Catholick Majesty King Charles III on their repairing to me, shall be maintained in the Service of his Catholick Majesty, in the same Posts, Honours and Degrees which they had before, without exception of Persons; and that from the same Hour, they shall be paid and maintained punctually, according to the Pay they before enjoy'd, out of the Treasury, which for these glorious Ends, the said most Serene Queen has caused to be remitted to my Order. Tis to be hoped there will be no Spaniards of Reputation, that will not make use of so favourable an opportunity of having the Honour to free their Country from Slavery truly Ignominious, and of gaining the peculiar Esteem of their Lawful Monarch King Charles III.»
The Confederates were now esteem'd in a Condition to March to Madrid, and this was resolved on in a Council of War early in the Spring.
The Catalans, in the mean time, undertook their own Defence, with the Assistance of some few Regular Troops to be left them, tho’ it is very probable they might have been attack'd from the side of Rousillon, where the Enemy were collecting an Army.
