of the Confederates: And having Notice that the Generals of the Auxiliaries, paid by Her Majefty, whofe Honour and Confciences would not permit them to abandon the Confederates, and leave them as a Sacrifice to France; but for the Stake of the common Intereft of Europe, and according to the true End and Defign of their Conventions, did refufe to withdraw with the Duke of Ormonde, without particular Orders from their respective Masters; he the faid Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, being then Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, and one of Her Majefty's Moft Hon. Privy Council, in Violation of his Oath, and the Duty and Truft repofed in him, did take upon himself an arbitrary and illegal Power, to refule and put a Stop to the Pay and Subfidies due on Account of the faid foreign Troops, altho they were intitled thereto by the Conventions entered into with Her Sacred Majefty, and by exprefs Provision made by Act of Parliament for the Payment of the fame. By which fatal Separation, which, pursuant to his evil Counfels, was afterwards made, great Numbers of the Confederate Troops, who had before, on many Occafions, fignaliz'd themselves in the Defence of the Caufe of Europe, foon afterwards, at the unfortunate Action of Denain, fell as Sacrifices to the Fury and Revenge of France; the Siege of Landrecy was raised; the important Towns and Fortreffes of Quefnoy, Bouchain, and Douay, were retaken by the French Army; and not only the Fortune of the War, but the Fate of Europe, decided in Favour of France.

ARTICLE X.

That in further Execution of his pernicious Designs, to compleat the Destruction of the Common Caufe of Europe, and to render it impracticable for Her Majefty to refume the War against France, in Conjunction with her Allies, or to recover the Union with Her Majefty's old and faithful Allies, fo neceffary to the Prefervation of thefe Kingdoms; he the faid Robert, E. of Oxford and E. Mortimer, then Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, did carry on and concert with the Ministers of France, a Private and Separate Negotiation for à Gefferal Sufpenfion by Sea and Land, between Great Britain and France, and to that End, among others, did advife Her Majefty to fend over Henry, Vilc. Bolingbroke, Oneof her Principal Secretaries of State, to the Court of France,

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with Powers to fettle the faid Sufpenfion. In pursuance of which, a destructive Treaty of Sufpenfion was made in France on the Nineteenth of Auguft N. S. 1712, by the faid Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, on the part of Her faid Majefty, for Four Months, without the Knowledge or any Participation of the Allies, and before any Terms of Peace were fettled with the Enemy, either for Great Britain or the Allies. By which evil Counfels, the exprefs Terms of feveral of the aforemention'd Treaties were exprefly contravened and broken, the good Friends and ancient Allies of Her Majefty and thefe Kingdoms, were totally depriv'd of the juft Affiftance to which they were thereby intitled, and were left expos'd to the Infults of the common Enemy; and the Sacred Ties of Union and Friendship between Her Majefty and ber Allies being cut alunder, Her Majesty's Perfon and Government, the Safety of her Kingdoms, and the Proteftant Succeffion to the Crown of thefe Realms, were left expos'd to the Enterprizes of her moft formidable Enemy.

ARTICLE XI

That whereas the States General of the United Provinces were, in or about the Month of September or October, in the Year of our Lord 1712, in Poffeffion of the ftrong and important Town and Fortrefs of Tournay: And whereas the French King had, during the Courte of the faid private, feparate, and traiterous Negotiation, between him the faid Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and others, and the Ministers of France, fignify'd his Confent to the Minifters of Great Britain, that the faid Town and Fortress of Tournay fhould remain to the faid States General as Part of their Barrier: And whereas Her Majefty, in Her Inftructions of December the Twenty Third, 1711, to her Plenipotentiaries at Utrecht, had exprefly directed them to infist with the Plenipotentiaries of France, in the General Congrefs, That towards forming a fufficient Barrier for the States-General, Tournay fhould remain to Their High Mightineffes; and did afterwards declare her felf conformably thereunto, in her Speech to both Houfes of Parliament, on the Sixth of June 1712, in which fhe communicated to them the Terms whereon a Peace might be made. And whereas for feveral Years before, and till the faid Months of September and October, in the Year of our Lord 1711, there was

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open War between her late Majefty and the French King, and the faid War continuing for all the faid Time, and afterwards, the faid French King and his Subjects were Enemies to Her Majefty: He the faid Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, then Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, and a Subject of Her Majefty's, not confidering the Duty of his Allegiance, but having altogether withdrawn the cordial Love, and true and due Obedience, which every true and faithful Subject owed to Her faid Majefty, and designing to give Aid and Succour, and to adhere to the faid French King, did, in or about the Months of September or October, 17122 during the faid War, falfy, malicioufly, wickedly, and traiterously aid, help, and affift, and adhere to the French King, than an Enemy to her late Majefty: and in execution and performance of his faid aiding, affifting, and adhering, maliciously, falfly, and traiteroully did counfel and advise the faid Enemy, in what manner and by what methods the faid important Town and Fortress of Tournay, than in poffeilion of the States-General, might be gain'd from them to the French King, contrary to the Duty of his Allegiance, and the Laws and Statutes of this Realm.

ARTICLE XII.

That whereas her late Majefty Queen Anne, not only in pursuance of the. Treaties fhe flood engaged in to her good Allies, and in particular to his Imperial Ma efty, for the Recovery of the Monarchy of Spain to the Houfe of Au ftria, thereby to preferve a due Ballance of Power in Europe, but also from her juft Refentment against the Duke of Anjou, who then ftiled himself King of Spain, and who, in defiance of her Majefty's Title to the Crown, had acknowledg'd the Pretender as King of Great Britain and on these jaft Foundations her Majefty had, in vindication of the Honour of the Crown, and in juftice to her People, at a vaft Expence of Blood and Treasure, and on the earnest and repeated Advices of her Parliament, profecuted a vigorous War againft the faid D. of Anjou. And whereas, in the Years of our Lord 1710, 1711, 1712. the faid open, bloody, and expenfive War was carried on between her faid late Maj. Queen Anne, and the faid Duke of Anjou, and during all the time aforefaid the faid War did continue, and for all that time the faid Duke of Anjou, and the Subjects of Span u : adhering

adhering to him, were Enemies of her late Majefty: He the faid Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, then Lord High Treafurer of Great Britain, and one of her Majesty's Privy Council, and a Subject of her faid Majefty, not confidering the Duty of his Allegiance, but having withdrawn his true Obedience from her faid late Majefty, did at feveral times, in the faid Years of our Lord, 1710, 1711, and 1712, fallly, malicioully, wickedly, and traiterously, aid, help, aflift, and adhere to the faid Duke of Anjou, then an Enemy to her faid late Majefty and in the execution and performance of his faid aiding, helping, affifting and adhering, and in Confederacy and Combination with the then Enemies of her late Majefty, and with divers other wicked and evil difpofed Perfons, did at feveral times, in the Years aforefaid, advife and counsel the Enemies of her late Majefty; and in fuch counfelling and advifing, did concert with them, and did promote the yielding and giving up Spain and the Weft-Indies, or fome part thereof, to the faid Duke of Anjou, then in enmity with her Majefty, against the Duty of his Allegiance, and the Laws and Statues of this Realm.

ARTICLE XIII.

That whereas the Riches, Power, and Strength of thefe Kingdoms depend entirely on the flourishing Condition of Trade and Navigation, and Her Late Majefty Queen Anne having due regard thereto, as well as to the juft Expectations of her People, after the vaft Expences they had fo chearfully undergone in fupport of the War, did, on the firft. opening the Conferences for a general Peace, declare from the Throne to Both Houfes of Parliament, on the Seventh of December, 1711, That fhe would endeavour that after a War, which had coft fo much Blood and Treasure, the Nation might find their Intereft in Trade and Commerce improv'd and enlarg'd by a Peace: And on the Sixth of June 1712, when he was pleafed to communicate the Terms on which a General Peace might be made, did declare, that nothing had moved Her Majefty from fteadily purfuing the true Intereft of her own Kingdoms, and that the Terms of Peace obtain'd for her own Subjects were fuch, as the had Reafon to expect would make her People fome Amends for the great and unequal Burden which they had lain under thro' the whole Courfe of the War, and hoped that

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none of the Confederates would envy her Share in the Glory and Advantage; and afterwards declared to Both Houfes of Parliament her Satisfaction in the near View fhe had of Peace, fince it would in fome measure recompene her Subject for their vaft Expence: And after the Conclufion of the Treaty of Peace and Commerce with France, did declare from the Throne on the Ninth of April 1713, That the many Ad vantages fhe had obtain'd for her Subjects, had occafion'd much Oppofition and long Delays to the Peace,; but it afforded her great Satisfaction, that her People will have it in their Power, by Degrees, to repair what they had fuffered during fo long and burdenfom a War. Whereon Both Houses of Parliament did from Time to Time express their grateful Acknowledgments to Her Majefty, for her great Care and Concern for the Welfare of her People. And whereas at the fetting on foot, and in the Progrefs of the faid private, feparate, and pernicious Negotiations between the Minifters of Great Britain and France, it was laid down as a Principle, on the Part of Great Britain, never to be departed from, That France fhould confent to adjust the Interefts of Great Britain in the first Place, that the Ministers of Great Britain might thereby be enabled to engage the Queen to make the Conclufion of the General Peace eafy to France; and on this plaufible Pretence it was infifted on by the Minifters of Great Britain, to remit the Difcuffion of the particular Interefts of the Allies to General Conferences; and throughout the whole Course of the faid feparate Negotiation, all imaginable Conceffions were not only made by the Minifters of Great Britain for the real Advantage of the Interefts of France against the Allies, but all Meafures were entred into and concerted between them, that even the Minifters of France could dictate, in order to ftrengthen their Hands, and to enable them to impose the Terms of a General Peace; He the faid Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, having nothing in View, thro' the whole Courfe of the faid Negotiation, wherein he was wickedly and principally engag'd in concert with France, but the final Deftruction of his Country, and to that end the facrificing the Commerce of Great Britain to the Aggrandifement of France, was not only wanting in his Duty to Her Majefty, in not infifting on in all Events, and not

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