The under-written Minifters of the King of Great-Britain, and the Lords the States General, do, by virtue of this prefent inftrument, declare, that as his faid Royal Majefty of Great-Britain, and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, are always accustomed to fulfil what they have promised, fo 'tis ftill their meaning and intention, that in the cafes aforefaid, the Spanish troops fhall be immediately withdrawn from the Duchies of Tufcany, Parma and Pla

centia.

This Declaration is to be kept fecret, but is nevertheless to be of the fame force, &c.

Separate Article.

HEREAS the treaty concluded this day between

W his Imperial Catholick Majefty, his Britannick

Majefty, and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, could not be fubfcribed or figned by the Minister of the faid States General refiding at the Imperial Court; because according to the cuftom of the republick, and the form of its government, the full powers could not be dispatched to the faid Minifter fo foon as was neceffary; it is agreed between his Imperial Majefty and his Royal Majesty of Great-Britain, that the faid States General (there being feveral conditions in the faid treaty, wherein they are particularly concerned) fhall be held and reputed as a principal contracting party, according as they are alfo named in the faid treaty, in firm hope and confidence that they would accede to it, as foon as the ufual form of their government would admit of it. And because the zeal which that republick manifefts for establishing and fecuring the publick tranquility, leaves their faid Majefties no room to doubt, that the faid Republick is defirous of becoming, as foon as may be, a principal contracting party in the faid treaty, to the end the may partake of the advantages therein ftipulated for her; both their Majefties will therefore unite their endeavours, that this treaty may be figned at the Hague on the part of the faid States General, within the fpace of three months, to be computed from the day of the figning of the present treaty, or fooner if poffible; for

it appeared neceffary both to his Imperial, and to his Royal Britannick Majefty, in order to obtain the end propofed by the prefent treaty, and for completing the publick tranquility, that the faid States General fhould enter into a part and partnership of the faid conventions.

This feparate Article fhall have the fame force, &c.

TH

A Declaration concerning East Friesland.

HE States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, having upon feveral occafions aflured his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, that how much soever they are interested in the re-establishment and prefervation of the peace in their neighbourhood, and by confequence that of the province of Eaft Friefland, it was never their intention to prejudice in the least the dependence of the faid province of Eaft Friefland, upon the Emperor and the Empire; his faid Imperial and Catholick Majesty, to give the States a fresh proof of his defire to oblige them as far as is confiftent with juftice, has been pleased to explain to them his true fentiments on that affair, and by that means to recover them from the fears they seem to have received. In order to this, no hesitation has been made to declare to them on his part by the present act, that his intention always was and ftill is.

I. That an amnesty which he has moft graciously granted to those of Embden and their adherents, fhall have its entire effect; and therefore that the feveral pains and pehalties pronounced against thofe of Embden and their adherents, upon the fcore of their renitency (refiftance) fhall not be put in execution. And as for thofe of them which have actually been executed fince the moft gracious acceptance of the fubmiffion made by the people of Embden and their adherents, the whole fhall be reftored upon the foot it ftood before the faid fubmiffion was accepted, that is to fay before the third of May, 1729, faving what is hereafter mentioned of an agreement to indemnify thofe for their loffes, who were plundered during the late troubles. II. His Imperial and Catholick Majefty, having by his refolution of the 12th of Sept. 1729, moft graciously permitted thofe of the town of Emben, and their adhe

rents,

rents, to draw up a fresh account of their grievances, or matters wherein they thought themselves aggrieved by the decrees of 1721, and the years following, concerning the ground of the affairs upon which they differed with the prince; and the faid grievances having been afterwards exhibited to the Imperial Aulick council, with all fubmiffion, the of November the fame year, his faid Majefty has already ordained by his moft gracious refolution of the 31st of Auguft, that thofe grievances fhould be examined as foon as poffible. And as it has been often declared, it has been and ftill is his conftant defire, that they should be determined and decided with all the juftice' and dispatch that is poffible, according to the agreements, ' conventions and decifions, which make the particular law of the province of East Friesland, and which are referred to in the Prince's reverfal letters, paffed and fworn to at his acceffion to the regency: Provided nevertheless, that under the denomination of thofe agreements, conventions, and decifions, none be comprehended which were abrogated and annulled by his Imperial Majefty's auguft predeceffors in the empire, or which strike at the fupreme rights of the Emperor and the Empire over the province of East Friefland. And his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, as a farther proof of his moft gracious intention to cut as fhort as juftice will admit him, the examination of the grievances of the people of Embden, and their adherents, has already ordained by his refolution of the 31ft of August last year, that as foon as the account thereof is delivered to those who are properly to take cognizance of the fame, according to the tenour of the refolution above-mentioned, they thall answer it very foon, and once for all; after which his Imperial Majefty, with the advice of his Imperial Aulick council, will redress every complaint, article by article, which fhall appear to be grounded on the agreements above-mentioned.

III. It having been already ordained, pursuant to his Imperial and Catholick Majefty's last resolution of the 31st of Auguft, 1730, that the people of the town of Embden, and their adherents, ought to be admitted into the af fembly of the States, which is to be called together to deliberate freely upon the affairs that le before them; his

Imperial and Catholick Majefty, will take care, that this refolution fhall have its entire effect, and that none of those who have a right to affift therein be excluded, contrary to the tenor of it.

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IV. As to the indemnification, his Imperial Majefty thinks it proper, that an account be taken of the damages, which according to the tenour of the amnefty pubin the year 1728, and of the refolution of the 12th of September, 1729, ought to be made good by the Renitents; and that the faid account be communicated to them, that they may make their objections: after which his Imperial and Catholick Majefty will cause. the difference to be amicably adjusted, or on failure of an accommodation, will, with the utmost equity, fix the fum which fhall be required to make good the damages fuftained.

V. His Imperial and Catholick Majefty perfifts in the intention he always had to take particular care of the payment of the intereft of the fums which the States of Eaft Friefland, and of the town of Embden, have borrowed of the fubjects of the United Provinces, as alfo of the reimbursement of the capital, according to the engagements entered into on that account.

Another Treaty concluded at Vienna the 22d of July, 1731, between the Emperor of Great-Britain, and Spain.,

In the Name of the moft Holy and Undivided Trinity. Amen.

Tall

O all and every one whom it doth or may concern, Be it known, That different troubles having arifen, which feemed even to threaten the publick tranquility, about the introduction of the Spanish garrifons into the ftrong places of Tufcany, Parma and Placentia, which his Catholick Majefty thinks it proper to guard with his own troops instead of Neutral, which were to have been there, pursuant to what had been agreed upon in the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance: In confequence whereof, his

Imperial and Catholick Majefty, and his Majefty the King of Great-Britain, to prevent the evils which might refult therefrom, did formerly come to an agreement by the third article of the treaty, concluded and figned at Vienna the 16th of March this prefent year, and by two declarations thereunto annexed.

Now the faid article, and the declarations thereon depending, having been communicated to his Majefty the Catholick King, according to his defire, and he having likewife feen that the faid article and declarations tended only to render more fecure to the Serene Infante Don Carlos his Son, the eventual fucceffion to the Duchies of Tufcany, Parma and Placentia: In fhort, his faid Catholick Majefty perceiving that the engagements entered into between him and his Majefty the King of Great-Britain, as they had been communicated to his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, and explained in the aforefaid declarations were entirely performed, he would not be wanting on his part, to do every thing in his power to eftablifh the publick tranquility on a furer foot.

To this end, on the part of his Sacred Imperial and Catholick Majefty, the moft High Prince and Lord, Eugene, Prince of Piedmont and Savoy, actual Privy Counfellor to his faid Imperial and Catholick Majefty, Prefident of the Aulick Council of the Netherlands, and his Lieutenant General, Major General of the Holy Roman Empire, and his Vicar General in all the kingdoms and states of Italy, Colonel of a regiment of dragoons, and Knight of the Golden Fleece: and alfo the moft illuftrious and moft excellent Lord, Philip Lewis, Hereditary Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Zinzendorf, Free Baron of Ernftbrunn, Lord of the lands of Gfol, the upper Selowitz, Porliz, Sabor, Mulzig, Lots, Zaan and Droikan, Burgrave of Reineck, Hereditary Master of the Horse, Great Cupbearer in Upper and Lower Auftria on this fide Ens, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Chamberlain to his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, actual Privy Counsellor, and firft Chancellor of the Court; together with the most illuftrious and moft excellent Lord Thomas Gundacker, Count of the Holy Empire, of Staremberg, Schaumburg and Wevemburg, Lord of the lands of Echelber,