6 was fear'd that this Affair would occafion farther A. C. Troubles, and even perplex the whole Confederacy; 1708. that Prince threatning to recall his Forces from the Service of the Allies. But Monfieur de Walderfee, the Danish Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Great-Britain, having prefented a Memorial upon The King that Head, her Majefty was not wanting to promote of Denthe Common Caufe; which must have fuffer'd confi- mark derably, if thofe Troops were recall'd in this critical threatens Conjuncture; And thereupon Mr. Boyle, one of the to recallhis Principal Secretaries of State, by her Majefty's Or- Troops. der, made him the following calm, but home Anfwer: That, as her Majefty had all the Reafon The Queen's in the World to extol the Juftice and Friendship. Answer to of his Danish Majefty, fhe was, at the fame Time, the Davery well pleas'd with his Moderation hitherto, nifh Memo⚫ and hop'd his Majefty would, on his Part, contri-rial, May 6 bute to appease the unhappy Divifions, that, for 25. fome Time, the City of Hamburgh had been afflicted with, without any Thought of ufing extraordinary Force to effect it; fince her Majefty was fully perfuaded, That neither the Princes, who were Directors of the Circle of the Lower-Saxony, nor any Body elfe, that acted by the Imperial Commiflion, had any other Defign, than to reftore Peace and Tranquillity among the Magiftrates and Burghers, upon the ancient Foot, with out Prejudice to the Privileges of the City, or doing the least Injuries to the Law, or the Frontiers of his Danish Majefty; That it was the Inte reft of her Majefty, the Queen of Great-Britain, as much as any Prince whatever, to be watchful over the Safety of the faid City of Hamburgh, seeing her Subjects had fo great a Trade, and fuch confi derable Effects there; That as her Majefty was in Hopes to fee an happy Iffue of the Imperial Com million, in re-fettling the Affairs of Hamburgh; fo fhe made no Doubt, but the Trade fhould be free as before; That the Rights and Privileges of every Body fhould be preferv'd; and as he could. not yet fee that his Majefty, the King of Denmark, had any juft Caufe to carry his Apprehenfions of Troubles fo far; She flatter'd herfelf, his Danish Majesty would recall the Orders he had given the • Duke of Wirtemberg, and would fuffer his Troops 6 to A. C. 1708. Which has the defir'd Effect. See the laft Years Annals P. 55. . 6 to continue in the Service of the Queen and her Allies, during this War, as it had been ftipulated in the 10th Article of the Treaty concluded between them in 1701, feeing there was nothing contain'd in that Article, nor in any other, whereof Mention was made, in the forefaid Memorial, that could justify the Recalling of the faid Troops, in the prefent Cafe; and 'twas very evident, That 'his Danish Majefty's starting of Difficulties, in fo nice a Conjuncture, must unavoidably tend to the Service of the common Enemy; and the Recalling his Troops, in that Manner, must be look'd upon, by all the Allies, in refpect to the fatal Confequences that would attend it, as an open Declaration in Favour of France: But as her Majefty, the Queen of Great-Britain, was very well fatisfy'd of the King of Denmark's great Zeal for the publick Good, the hop'd his Danish Majefty would still re'tain the fame Moderation, in Reference to the Troubles of Hamburgh, as fhe and her Allies had, upon all Occafions, a very particular Regard for the Intereft of his Majefty, the King of Denmark, fo as to give him no Caufe of Jealoufy or Complaint. This Anfwer being tranfmitted to the Court of Denmark, had the defired Effect; the Danish Troops being continued in the Pay, of her Britannick Majefty and her Allies. 6 * The King of Sweden, having_communicated to the Queen of Great-Britain the Treaty he Concluded the laft Year, at Alt-Ranstad, with the Emperor, in Favour of the Reform'd of Silefia; and defir'd Her Guaranty of that Treaty, Her Majefty readily accepted the fame, and to exprefs her Satisfaction in every Thing that contributed to the Promoting of the Proteftant Intereft, wrote the following Letter to his Swedish Majesty. ANNE, A. C. ANNE, By the Grace of God, Queen of Great- Moft Illuftrious moft Potent Prince, Brother, Coufin, and the King WE have read your Majefty's Letters with The Queen's great Joy and Affection, wherein we find Letter to many Tokens of a particular Friendship for us; of Sweden and to our great fatisfaction, perceive what un- about the common Advantage has happen'd to Religion by Treaty of your late Treaty. So much the lefs as your Ma- Alt-Ranjefty has infifted upon your own particular In- ftad, in fatereft, by the faid Treaty, fo much the more vour of the Fame have you acquir'd, and the more Immortal Reform'd it will make your Name to Pofterity; for, as a in Silefia. true Prince, Hero, and Chriftian, your Endeavours cannot have a greater and better View, than to make the promoting of the Fear of God among Men, your chief End, and to oblige great Potentates to keep their Treaties inviolable and facred; therefore we firmly believe, that according to the, lately concluded Treatybetwixt the Emperor and your Majefty, what was concluded by the Weftphalian Treaty, but forgotten by the length of Time, or wholly made void and null by the Ambition of Princes, fhall again be brought and restored to its former juft Right. On our part, we very willingly and readily accept the Guaranty of that Treaty, it being our Defign zealously to improve every Opportunity to unite all the Power that "God has given us, with that of your Majefty, to refcue opprefs'd Europe. We cannot forbear to make use of this Opportunity to acquaint your Majefty how we concur with other Proteftants in our Hopes and earneft Defires, that your Majefty will procure for thofe call'd Reform'd, that they' may enjoy the fame Freedom which the Lutherans do already enjoy by your Majefty's powerful Interceffion and Mediation, and recommend your Majefty and all your Defigns to the Protection of the Great God; for whofe Honour you have hitherto behav'd you felf with fo much Zeal. The A. C. The King of Sweden being now engag'd in a di1708. ftant perplexing War against the Muscovites; the Imperial Court, who were chiefly induc'd to conclude the Treaty of Alt-Ranftad, by the Apprehenfion of a Rupture with that Monarch, were not only very flow in executing what was ftipulated for the Lutherans; but refus'd to do any Thing, in behalf of the Reformed of Silefia. Hereupon the British, Dutch, and Pruffian Minifters at Vienna, were inftructed to fecond the Baron de Stralenheim, the Swedish Ambaffador and Plenipotentiary, in order," by their joint Endeavours to procure the punctual Execution of the Treaty before mention'd; And the King of Pruffia having caus'd a Deduction of the Rights of the Reformed in Silefia, to be drawn up, the faid Baron deliver'd it to the Imperial Commiffioners, with the following Letter: The Baren de Stra Letter to the Impe Gentlemen, C Do my felf the Honour to fend to your Excel"lencies the inclofed Deduction, which will fully lenheim's inform you wherein the well-grounded Right of the Reformed, and their Pretenfions, confift. I rerial Com- 'commend it most earnestly to you, in the Name, of the King my Mafter, and defire you to tranfmit it to his Imperial Majefty,and toback it with your favourable Conftruction. I am, with much Affection, miffioners. Breflaw, Feb. 8. 1708. Of your Excellencies, The most humble Servant, Sign'd, The Baron de Stralenheim, A Deducti- §. 1. Waded at Alt-Ranftade,, the 1ft of Hereas by Virtue of the Treaty con on of the Rights of the Reformed in September, 1707, between their Imperial and Swe dif Majefties, all that has been done, chang'd, Silefia. or alter'd, in Matters of Religion, contrary to the true Sense of the Treaty of Peace of Ofna-" burg, to the Prejudice of thofe of the Confeffion of Augsburg, ought to be reftor'd and re-inftated, according to the Meaning of the faid Treaty: It cannot . A. C. cannot be denied, That the States, Counts, Ba rons, Gentlemen, as alfo the Subjects, Burghers,and 1708. Inhabitants, both of the Towns and open Country in Silefia, of the Confeffion of Augsburgh, who call themselves REFORMED, have the fame Rights with thofe of the Confeffion of Augsburg, 6 who ftile themselves LUTHERANS, 6 6 6 S. 2. For it is beyond Contradiction, that the Reformed have not only been comprehended under the general Denomination of thofe of the Confeffion of Augsburg, before the Treaty of Westphalia, as clearly appears from the Decrees made by the Proteftant Electors, Princes, and States of the Empire, at the Affembly of Naumburg, in the Year 1561, and at the Diet of Augsburg, in 1566. But if that Matter fhould ftill admit of any Doubt, the following Words of the Treaty of Peace would fully clear it: Unanimi quoque CeSaree Majeftatis omniumque Ordinum Imperii Confenfu placuit, ut quicquid Juris aut Beneficii cùm alia Conftitutiones Imperii, tùm pax Religiofa & Publica hæc Tranfactio in eaque Decifio Gravaminum, ceterifque Catholicis Augf. Conf. addictis ftatibus & fubditis < tribuunt, id etiam iis qui inter illos REFORMATI vocantur, competere debeat, licet duas Partes inter fe conftituant. S. 3. The Imperial Commiffioners do alfo own 6 it themselves in their Letter of the 19th of Janu6 ary 1708. but they make a Diftinction between the Reformed of the Empire, and thofe of Silefia, although the Paffage of the Treaty of Peace before. quoted imports: Ut quicquid Juris aut Beneficii, N. B. publica hac Tranfa&tio, (id eft Pax Ofnabru genfis) in eaque Decifio Gravaminum, Aug. Conf. ftatibus & fubditis tribuit, id etiam iis qui inter illos REFORMATI vocantur competere debeat By which it appears, That the Peace of Ofnaburg allowing the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects of Silefia of the Augsburg Confeffion, does confequently allow the fame to the REFORMED, according to the Tenor of the faid 7th Article. S. 4 Altho' the faid 7th Article fhould not be fo pofitive as it is, it would, nevertheless, be unqueftionable in the prefent Cafe, and in Relation to Silefia, That the Reformed are comprehended in thofe |