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ter the Pope from his fix'd Refolutions to prevent A. C. the storm that threatned Rome, a Treaty of Ac- 1708. commodation between the Courts of Rome and Vi-ne enna, was, at laft, concluded and figned (A) the Treaty be Night between the 15th and 16th of January, N. S. tween the But the most material Articles being yet unper- Pope and form'd we fhall take no further Notice of that Emperor Tranfaction, and only obferve, That on the 20th concluded of February the Marefchal de Theffé fet out from Jan. 15. Rome, having, a Week before, fent the following Letter to the Pope :

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Fter having taken the Liberty to write to Theffé "Your Holiness, and made, tho' to no pur-fets out pofe, the most humble, Reprefentations, which from the Juncture of Affairs, and the Honour I had of Rome. His 3d. being fent to You in the Quality of Ambaffador, feem'd to exact; I thought the only Bufinefs Í had now at Rome, was to demand Your Benediction, which Your Holiness is never willing to "refufe. It has been an eftablifh'd Custom among Sovereigns, for many Ages paft, to fend to one another Minifters, either to have a watchful Eye on their Interests, or to negotiate, or to entertain the Correfpondence they defire. Thefe Three Things, Holy Father, cannot any more be manag'd

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(A) By this Agreement, the Pope was to disband all his new-raifed Troops in 14 Days after the Conclufion of the Treaty; to reduce his Forces to the antient Establishment; and to difmifs out of his Service all Foreign and fufpected Officers; to proceed immediately to an acknowledg ment of King Charles III; to fend a Nuncio to the Court of Barcelona, and to receive from thence an Ambassador at Rome; And to gram King Charles all the Prerogatives which depend on the See of Rome, fuch as the Nomination to Bishopricks and Church Benefices, as alfo to the Cardinal's Cap; Comacchio was to remain in the Hands of the Eme perer, 'till the Pretenfions of the Empire, and of the See of Rome to that Place were examin'd, and decided in a Conference to be held for that purpose, between a Deputation of Cardinals and the Marquis of Prie. The Right to the Sovereignty of Parma and Placentia was to be debated in the fame Conference. The Pope was to use all poffible Endesvours to hinder the Malecontents of Naples, who had taken shelter in the Ecclefiaftical Territories, from carrying on any Plots or Machinations to.difturb the Quiet of that Kingdom. And the Imperial Troops were, to leave forthwith the Pope's Territories.

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with Your Holiness; fince Violence, as Your Holinefs acknowledges it, has made Your Court lofe the Independency, which it can no longer enjoy. No manner of Negotiation can now take Place, fince the fame Violence will, for the future, turn the Scales quite on one fide, the common Father being no longer at Liberty to hold them in that fair Ballance from which Juftice flow'd; and as for Correfpondence the Son ever refpetful, tho' not unfenfible, ftill does, and will always preferve in his Heart thofe Sentiments which Duty prefcribes to him; but when Sentiments only are in Queftion, there's no need of an Ambaffador between the Father and the Son.

"Four Months, are now paft fince I act with "Your Holiness the ambiguous Part of a Minister, and No-Minifter. The Perplexity of Ceremonies, that fettle the Laws of Publick Audiences, and do not admit the Private, makes of me, as it were a Second CARNAVAL, wherein Your Holiness for"bids Masks, and in which neverthelefs, thofe who 'have put themfelves above the Laws, take the Liberty to wear 'em. I am at Your Holiness's Court, neither in a Mask, not Barefac'd: But I know very well, I have the Honour to demand the Liberty of Retiring, as a Man altogether ufelefs. fhall give the King, my Mafter, an Account of your Holinefs's Intentions; which "have been violated by Temporal Force, which has even ftifled That which the Church used to employ. In the mean Time. I fuppofe your Holiness will charge me to be perfwaded, That the fame good Intentions remain entire in the Bottom of your Heart, and will manifeft themselves again, when under lefs Conftraint.

I have the Honour to be, &c.

Having taken a full View of all the Foreign Tranfactions, Military and Politick, wherein her Britannick Majefty, had any Immediate or relative Share, 'tis now high Time, ro return to Great Britain, and refume the Thread of Affairs there, which we left off at her Majefty's going to VVindfor, on

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July

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the 26th of June; having, the fame Day, order'd a Proclamation to be publifh'd, about the Trade to Newfoundland. The new Parliament being met, on the 8th of July, was Prorogued to the 9th of Septem- Parlia ber; thence to the 21ft; and fo to the 16th of No- ment provember. In the mean Time, Count Bergomi, Envoy rogued. Extraordinary from the Duke of Modena, had his Publick Audience of her Majefty, and the Prince, at VVindfor; And on the 18th of the fame Month of July, Antony Artemonowitz de Matueof, Privy Coun- Audiences fellor and Governor of the Province of Jawslavy, Foreign and Ambaffador Extraordinary from the Czar of Ministers. Mufcovy, had his private Audience of Leave of her Majefty and her Royal Confort. The fame Day, the Baron le Begue, Envoy Extraordinary from the Duke of Lorrain, had his firft private Audience of the Queen and Prince; And Two Proclamations were order'd to be publish'd, for a publick and General Proclama Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for Disappointing the tions for a Ambitious Defigns of France, by the late wonderful Suc- Thanksgiv cefs be had given to her Majefty's Councils and Forces, ing, dated against the Infolent Attempt to invade her Kingdom of July 18th. Great Britain; and by giving to her Arms, in Conjuntion with thofe of her Allies, under the Command of John Duke of Marlborough, a Signal and Glorious Victory, near Audenarde in Flanders: Appointing the 19th Day of August next enfuing, to be religiously ob ferv'd, for that purpose, throughout England; and the 26 of the fame Month, throughout that Part of Great Britain call'd Scotland. A Week † before, another Proclamation came out, Directing and Appointing Proclama + July 11. the refpective Times and Places,for keeping Circuit-tion for Courts in Scotland, for the better and speedier Admi- Circuitniftration of Juftice, and further Prefervation of the Courts in Publick Peace there, pursuant to an A8 in the laft Scotland. Parliament, for rendring the Union of the Two King

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On the 25th of the fame Month, Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's-Bench, now re- The Lord.. turn'd from the Bath, and recover'd of a dangerous Ghief Illness, was, by her Majesty's Command, fworn uftice one of her moft honourable Privy Council. The Holt next* Day, the Lord Mayor,Aldermen, and Com- Sworn a mons, of the City of London, prefented a Congra- Priy tulatory Counsellor.

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A. C. tulatory Addrefs to her Majefty, which being fhort, 1708. well-penn'd, and prophetick, we fhall infert it in this Place, being as follows:

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Moft Gracious Sovereign,

The City WE cannot be filent when we obferve the ᎳᎬ Series of the Divine Providence, crowndon's con- ing your Majefty's Endeavours, for the Defence of gratulatory your own Subjects in their Religion, Laws and Addrefs. Liberties, and reftoring Liberty, to injur'd Na

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tions, with fuch fignal and glorious Succefs.

"The intended Invafion of your Kingdoms was not fooner heard of than it was baffled; and the Pretender to them, forced to return with equal Shame and Confuffion to his former Pupilage; and fince the Almighty hath given your Enemies fo fatal a Blow, by the Arms of your Majefty and your Allies, under the Command of the Victorious Marlborough, we have good Reafon to promife our felves, That the Ambitious and Haughty Monarch of France shall be speedily compell'd to beg Peace, which heretofore he vainly boafted to give.

To the God of Battel, therefore we have return'd (and in Obedience to your Royal Command, fhall in a folemn manner return) our unfeign'd Thanks; and we humbly beg Leave to congratulate your Majefty, the Royal Instrument; and to affure your Majefty, that we are ready to do every thing that can be expected, by the beft of Sovereigns, from the moft grateful and most • loyal Subjects.

The fame † Day, Andrew Knipe, and Robert Knighted Dunkley, Efq; the firft a Common-Council-Man of †July 26. Aldgate, and the other of Tomer-VVard, receiv'd the Mr.Wright Honour of Knighthood; as did fome Days before, and Capt. Thomas Bury of Exeter, Efquire. About the middle Edwards of the fame Month, William VVright Efq; was, by premated. her Majelty,appointed Commiffioner at Portsmouth;

and Captain Edwards, who fought fo bravely at Sea the Summer before, but was taken and carried Prifoner to France, being now exchanged for the Chevalier de Nangis, late Captain of the Salisbury, was promoted to be Superintendent at Harwich. The Place of Recorder of the City of London, having,

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fome time, been vacant, by her Majesty's advan- A. C. cing Sir Salathel Lovel, to be one of the Barons of the Exchequer, the Court of Aldermen, on the 27th of July, made Choice of Peter King, Efq; a Per- "Philip fon of eminent Parts, and diftinguifh'd Merit, to King, Efq; fucceed him; on whom likewife her Majefty did, made Renot long after, beftow the Honour of Knight- corder of hood, as a particular Mark of her Royal Favour London and Efteem. July 27.

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In the Month of July, an Ambaffador from the Knighted Emperor of Fez and Morocco, arrived in Great Bri- Sept. 12. tain, with a Prefent of Six Lions for her Majefty; The Moand upon his coming to Hammersmith, a Village rocco Amabout Four Miles to the Weft of London, he was bafador put under an eafie Confinement, by Way of Repri- confined, fal, for the Reftraint put upon Captain Delaval, and foon her Majefty's Envoy, in that Country, before he after set at reach'd that Emperor's Court; which happen'd upLiberty. on a falfe Report, that fome ill Ufage had been offer'd to Ahmed Ben Ahmed Cardenafh, the late Morocco Ambaffador here: But upon better Information, the Captain was immediately releafed, as was alfo the Morocco Ambaffador. However, for what Reason is unknown, Captain Delaval did not go in biere goes Perfon to the Court of Morocco, and only fent thi- to the Court ther with her Majefty's Letter, and Prefent, Mr. of the Em Corbiere his Secretary, who was receiv'd with great peror of Demonstrations of Refpect. Morocco.

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About this Time, an Indignity offer'd in London, to Antony Artemonowitz de Matueof, the Muscovite Ambaffador, was highly refented, not only by him- Indignity felf, but likewife by all thofe who are concern'd in offer'd to the Prefervation of the Rights and Privileges of the MufAmbaffadors, and publick Ministers. Thomas Mor- covite zon, a Laceman in King's-ftreet, in the Parish of AmbassaSt. Paul, Covent-Garden, and fome other Tradefmen, dor, by to whom his Excellency ow'd fmall Sums of Mony; his PerfonArresting fcarce amounting in the whole to Three Hundred Pounds Sterling; finding he had taken his Audience of Leave, (as was before mention'd) and being foolishly apprehenfive, That he would leave the Kingdom incognito, without paying his Debts, altho' a City Merchant trading to Muscovy, had fet a Day for fatisfying most of them; held feveral Confultations together, and, at laft, imprudently

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