nó room for Pretexts for any Interpretation, Excep tion or Restriction.

On which Account it will be requifite to view on all Sides, the Things to be demanded, in order to be very particular, and to give to their Explication, all the Extent that is neceffary; to the end that nothing may be forgot.

To this Purpole, we fhall prefent Memorials to their Excellencies, whenever They are pleas'd to require them; and we shall explain any Subject they delire to have clear'd up.

The Second is, That the Method to obtain the beft Security, confifts in the vigorous, lively, ardent, and ferious Manner, it may please the Protestant States to negotiate this Affair: Nothing being more certain, than that if they profecute it with Indifference, France is difpos'd to refuse them every Article; whereas if She obferves that they are hearty and ftrenuous; and that the Affair fenfibly touches them, and is at their Heart, She will be more easy in granting what is demanded, and more faithful in performing what has been agreed to.

A REPRESENTATION of the Ple nipotentiaries, of the Proteftant Powers, affembl'd at Utrecht, on behalf of the Proteftant States and Subjects of the Kingdom of Hungary, and of the Principality of Tranfilvania; prefented in January past, to his Lordship the Count of Sinzendorf.

Efides the Affair of concluding, (God willing)

a general Peace at this Congress, the Proteftant Kings and other High Powers did most graciously charge their Plenipotentiaries, That what they had, for the most urgent Reafons, undertaken, during -the War, for procuring to divers of the Allies and their Subjects, by the Interpofition of their good Offices, fhould take Effect upon the Return of the Peace, principally in thofe Cafes in which Provifion

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has been already made, and may hereafter be made, for the great Advantage and Tranquillity of the Confederates in general and in particular.

The aforefaid Princes and States, in regard to what has been promis'd by them, and confidering that thofe Promifes may be perform'd with a fincere Defire of procuring the Advantage of His Imperial Majefty himself, ought not, nor can neglect using their good Offices, Recommendations and Intreaties in the most preffing Manner, with His Imperial Majefty, on behalf of the Proteftant States and Subjects of the Kingdom of Hungary, and of the Principality of Tranfilvania.

It cannot be unknown to His Imperial Majefty, how indefatigably fome Perfons in Hungary and Tranfilvania did labour, during the late Troubles, and were even inftigated by fome Foreigners, to reduce the People to fo great Streights, as to oblige them to invite the Turks to their Affiftance, and commit themselves to their Protection. Nor is it lefs manifeft, that the Brethren of the Evangelical Religion in the faid Countries did, principally in Obedience to the pious Admonitions of the aforefaid Potentates, ftrenuoufly oppofe and fruftrate a Project equally pernicious to the Chriftian Intereft, and to the Houfe of Auftria, moft meritorioufly poftponing the Liberty of Confcience, which the Turks would have chearfully granted them, to their Loyalty to His Imperial Majefty; as alfo their Expectations of recovering the faid Liberty, up. on the promis'd Interceflion of the Powers aforefaid.

What useful Pains the aforefaid Powers took, and how laudable a Specimen of Loyalty did the faid States and Subjects then fhew; tho' they had long groan'd under a manifold Oppreffion (no doubt con ceal'd from His Imperial Majefty) on Account of their Religion, the Matters of Fact fpeak plainly, tho' they themselves fhould keep filent.

His Imperial Majefty will in his own Mind confider the Prefervation of His Sovereignty, the Dif appointing the Projects of His Enemies, the Opportunity of penetrating deeper into Europe, fnatch'd

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out of the Hands of the Turks, and a Handle given for accommodating happily Affairs in Hungary and Tranfilvania, as Services meriting even to be recompens'd with new Demonftrations of Clemency and Favour; how much rather as greatly deferving the Re covery of ancient Laws and Privileges?

Wherefore the Kings and States aforefaid, by whofe Care and feafonable Exhortations, the Sovereignty of the Emperor was refcu'd from the Danger it was in, are confident, that they will find his Imperial Majefty, who is the moft religious Obferver of Law and Equity, difpos'd to give ear to their Interceffion, when they are only endeavouring, that Subjects, who have in that Cafe merited in the highest Degree, to be reftor'd to their Ancient Privileges, and to his Favour, and to enjoy them without Moleftation; the only Intention and whole Aim of the Requests and moft preffing Sollicitations of the aforefaid Princes and States being, that the States of Hungary and Tranfilvania of the Auguftan and Helvetian Confef fion, may enjoy again the free Exercife of their Religion; and that their Churches, Schools, Parishes, and Hofpitals, with their Revenues of what Denomination foever, they anciently poffefs'd, may be entirely and inviolably reftor'd, particularly in Hungary, pursuant to the Articular Conftitutions and the 6th Conftitution of the Royal Diploma, in the Years 1608, 1625, 1630, 1635, but especially of that in 1647, in Transilvania, purfuant to the approv'd Conftitutions, which were confirm'd by the Royal Diploma; without the leaft Infraction, difadvantageous Interpretation or Diminution; fo that whatsoe ver has hitherto been done or begun to be done against the fame, whether by Violence, or any other Way, may be without Delay regulated and corrected Bona Fide, by the aforefaid Articles and approv'd Conftitutions; and that the aforefaid States may be never, on any Pretext whatsoever difturb'd or molefted for the future, in the full Exercife of them: And that therefore the Articles 25 and 26 of the Year 1681, and the 21ft of 1687, as far as they are any wife contrary to the Articles, Laws, and Diploma's of former Times, may be corrected and inferted in the new Conftitutions of the Kingdom. Now

Now that his Imperial Majefty's moft folid Intereft will oblige him to answer his Subjects most humble Petitions fo conformable to the Laws, may be inferr'd with the greater Certainty; because it is evident, that Subjects are more ready to obey Commands, more courageous in the Defence of, their Country, more loyal, and more chearful in carrying on Trade, when they are allow'd by the gracious Clemency of the Prince, fo to enjoy their Rights, that they may find their Advantage in being good Patriots and faithful Subjects: And for this End 'tis abfolutely neceflary that their ancient Rights and Privileges be inviolably preferv'd, especially thofe, that regard their Faith to God.

This is really the only and moft infupportable Article to Chriftians, and which the aforefaid Subjects complain of and lament, that the free Exercife of their Religion is disturb'd, impair'd, and almoft intirely ftop'd; a Remedy for which Evil, they, in the moft fubmiffive Manner, pray for from God and his Imperial Majefty, refolving in all other Things, to retain at all Times, toward the Emperor, their Loyalty, which is dearer to them even than their Lives and Fortunes.

Furthermore, fince it is manifeft, that thofe of the Evangelical Profeffion are in Hungary five times more numerous, than the Roman Catholicks, and above that in Transylvania, the aforefaid Princes and States do not fear to promife to his Imperial Majefty as well as to themfelves, that his Imperial Majefty will, by graciously restoring the aforefaid Liberty of Confcience, gain that Glory, which the firft of the Emperors obtain'd by granting, relieving, and pardoning, and befides enjoy a molt flourishing Kingdom and Principality, never to be feduc'd by any Enticements of Enemies, or thaken by the Violence of their Arms, the Hearts of the Subjects being the Barrier against the Enemies of Christendom, Furthermore, new Occafion will be given to his Imperial Majefty's moft amicable Confederates (when they fee the good Succefs of their Labour, which they undertook from the most weighty Motives, and moft conducing to the Intereft of his Imperial Majefty)

jefty) as well to congratulate his Imperial Majesty as themselves, and this Favour will be a fresh Incitement to them, to purfue, with the greatest Earnest nefs all thofe Things, they fhall judge grateful and acceptable to his Imperial Majefty.

A REPRESENTATION of the Plehipotentiaries of the Kings, and of the other High Potentates of the Evangelical Religion, affembled at Utrecht, deliver d both by Word of Mouth and by Writing, to the Imperial Plenipotentiaries, Jan. 19. 1713. on Behalf of the Protestants in Silefia.

As the King's and other high Potentates of the Evangelical Religion, did, laft April, by their Plenipotentiaries, declare, how earnestly they defired, that all things fhould be entirely reftor'd, in the Sacred Roman Empire, with relation to facred and ecclefiaftical Matters, and to fuch Things as have been chang'd with refpect to them, to the fame Condition, in which they were, or ought to have been, pursuant to the Treaty of Weftphalia; and that the faid Treaty fhould, for the future, remain inviolable; and that the Claufe infringing it, and the Statute of the Years 1618, and 1624, which was inferted in the 4th Article of the Treaty of Ryfwick, may be utterly abolish'd, not doubting in the leaft but that his Sacred Imperial Majefty, and the Roman Catholick States of the Empire. will even freely help forward and promote an Affair fo falutary to the Publick, and very fhortly give them a favourable Anfwer. So the aforefaid High Kings and other Powers of the Evangelical Profeffion, tho' with respect to the general Reftitution, they have already had Regard alfo of thofe in Silefia, who are of the Auguftine Confeffion, and are call'd Reform'd; yet they cannot but demand likewife, in the most preffing and particular manner, on their Behalf, that his Imperial Mujefty wou'd gra