Sample Pages From The Unpublished Letters of Henry ST John, First Viscount Bolingbroke

640. TO: SIR EDWARD NORTHEY, ATTORNEY GENERAL. Whitehall. 30 December 1712. [Contemporary copy in unidentified hand.
] Text: MS, National Archives, London, SP 44/114, fol. 93.

Whitehall 30th Decr 1712 M. Attorney Gen. Sir The Ministers of the Czar of Muscovy, of the King of Denmark and of King Augustus having made complaint of a Paragraph in the Post Boy of the 4th ins.t reflecting upon their respective Masters by her Maj:tys Command I send you here enclosed1 the said Post Boy & desire that you will prosecute the Author of it as far as the Law will allow. I am Sir Your most humble Serv.t Bolingbroke
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Post Boy, 2741 (24 December 1712) comments on the financial mismanagement of the Northern Confederates in the war against France. Informations were ordered against Abel Roper for his seditious Reflections in his Libel the Post-Boy, upon the Tsar of Muscovy, the King of Denmark. Flying Post or the Post Master, 3319 (36 January 1713).
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641. TO: LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF TRADE. Whitehall. 2 January 1712. [In a secretarys hand but signed by B.] Text: MS, National Archives, London, CO 388/15, fols 999v.
Lds Comm: of Trade &c My Lords By ye Queens command I transmit to your Lordships a Representation1 drawn up by ye Brittish Merchants in Flanders, relating to ye commerce between that Country, Britain, & Ireland; which you will please to consider of, & make such observations thereupon as you shall judge proper.2 I am my Lords. yr Lordsps most humble
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The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 3
and most obedient servant Bolingbroke

1. Enclosed: Project [containing twelve articles] for re-establishing Commerce betwixt G.t Britain, Ireland & Flanders, presented to the R.t Hon:ble my L.d Orrery Plenipotentiary to Her Maty the Queen of G.t Britain & Ireland, at Brussells by the English Merchants of Bruges & Ostend January 1712/13. Signed by J. Hudson, Edmund Custis, And.[rew] Browne, and Thomas Ray. This demanded that all English woollen products imported to Ostend pay half the duties currently charged under the tarif (or book of rates) of 1680; the projectors also complained that tobacco imported from England was charged at an excessively high rate, and asked that this rate be reduced by one half. They also recommended that Ostends harbour and quay be put in good condition before it became innavigable. Similarly, for the benefit of commerce, the projectors suggested that the river or canal between Ostend and Bruges should be cleared and made as deep as it was fifteen years before, and that great regard be shown to English subjects living in these countries who depended on freedom of transit to transport their goods to the conquered Barrier towns. (Contemporary copy in unidentified hand. NA, CO 388/15, fols 1001.) Remainder of letter in B.s hand.
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642. TO: BENJAMIN WAIDE, MAYOR OF HULL. Whitehall. 2 January 1712/13. [Contemporary copy in unidentified hand.] Text: MS, National Archives, London, SP 44/114, fol. 93.
Whitehall 2 January 1712/13
I thank you for your letter of the last of December, which came this day to my hands & for the dispatch you gave to the Count de Saaros w:ch was very much to her Majties satisfaction. I heartily joyn with you in wishing that you may soon have an opportunity of making the Proclamation you desire, & am1 S.r Yo:r most humble and Obed:t Servant Bolingbroke
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643. TO: SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM. Whitehall. 2 January 1712/13. [Contemporary copy in unidentified hand.] Text: MS, National Archives, London, SP 44/114, fols 989.
Whitehall 2.d January 1712/13 Secretary at Warr. S.r Upon my laying some time ago before the Queen a Report from the then Secretary at Warr on the Petition of Cap.t Matthews whereof I enclose a Copy,1 her Ma.ty in consideration of this Gentlemans services, and of the hardships he has suffered, was pleasd to approve of his being placd on the Establishment of half pay in Ireland, til he could be provided for according to his Rank in the Army as is proposd in the aforesaid Report. And I was accordingly directed to speak to the Duke of Ormonde upon it, but His Grace going for Flanders before I had an Opportunity of mentioning this matter to him, it is still in suspence. You will therefore please to acquaint the Duke of Ormonde with Her Maj.tys intentions concerning Cap.t Matthews, and to take the proper measures for procuring to him the full benefit of them. I am S.r Your Obed.t humble servant Bolingbroke.
1. Enclosed: Report, signed by George Granville, and dated Whitehall, 19 September 1711. This regards Captain William Matthews, late of Major-General Peppers regiment of dragoons, with twenty years of service. Being the eldest Captain in the regiment, he was taken prisoner at Elche (the petition does not indicate when) in Spain and carried into France. The majors post falling vacant whilst he was prisoner, the Earl of Gallway appointed a younger captain-major instead of Matthews. Granville recommended Matthews to the Duke of Argyle and the Earl of Portmore asking them to restore him to the post of major of dragoons as soon as a vacancy became available. NA, SP 44/114, fols 99101.
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644. TO: LORDS PLENIPOTENTIARIES: JOHN ROBINSON, BISHOP OF BRISTOL, and THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1st EARL of STRAFFORD and 3rd BARON RABY. Whitehall. 3 January 1712/13. [In a secretarys hand but signed by B.] Text: MS, BL Add. 37273, fols 19v.1
Whitehall 3.d Janry 1712/3 R. H. Lds plenipot. My Lords I have now before me your Lo:ps letters of the 27th & 30th December, and of the 3d and 6th of January N. S. which I am to acknowledge. Your Lo:ps letter of the 30th of Dec:r gives an account of several points which were discussed in a Conference with the French Ministers relating to the Treaty of Peace, and that of Commerce.2 As I find by your letter of the 6th of Janry that your Lo:ps had received mine of the 20th Decr, and as I doubt not but my letter of the 24th will have come to your hands since, I shall be very short in my observations upon those particulars, because the differences mentioned, are either answerd in those two letters, or suspended till we hear from the Duke of Shrewsbury what success he has met with in his Negociations upon the most essential matters. As to the French selling their immovable Estates in all the places which they quit, your Lo.ps think it most unreasonable in respect to Hudsons Bay,3 but seem to have no objection as to other places except as to to the time to be allowed for selling them. You have her Matys sense amply expressed in my letter of the 20th Dec:r concerning the absurdity of this pretension; and if the French talk of positive orders to insist upon it, your Lo:ps are as positively to reject it. By the additions in the 10th Article,4 I hope your Lo:ps mean the generall clause of a reciprocal redress of grievances, which was added by the French to the first project. for as to the additions in their Counter-project, her Maty thinks they enter too much into particulars. 5 Exceptis Formentis &c in the 12th Art[icle] your Lo:ps say you have admitted agreably to former directions. what I remember to have writ most distinctly upon that matter was contained in my letter of the 26th of Augt,6 the meaning of which was to make use of that demand to facilitate other matters; & to be easy on condition that the French showed the same spirit. As to the season of fishing to be prescribed to the French on the Coast of Newfoundland,7 I find by letters which I lately received from Mr Pryor that the Court of France is uneasy at such a restriction, & makes several objections to it.8 your Lops will have seen that her Maty has no thoughts of insisting upon that matter. But we are hopefull that the Duke of Shrewsbury acording to his Instructions will be able to give quite a new turn to the most material point of our differences, which will set aside all these other little difficultys.
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Your Lo:ps took a very right turn in respect to the Barrier of the Duke of Savoy, when the French for his security offered never to quarter any Troops in the valleys on the side towards Exilles and Fenestrelles. for by that concession France does really acknowledge the necessity of the Barrier which his Royal Highness asks, & the danger he is exposed to without it. I am hopefull still that the French, notwithstanding all their backwardness, will yield this point at last. at least we must insist upon it to the utmost. 10 The alarms concerning Sicily which your Lops mention in several of your letters, may be industriously given by the French for the purposes which you observe. however her Maty has for the present thought fit to give some orders towards preventing the dangers apprehended, as your Lo:ps will see by the Copy of the Earl of Dartmouths letter to Sr John Jennings,11 which I send inclosed. you will please to communicate to the Ministers of Savoy the directions which the Queen sends to her Admiral. And if there are any more particular Informations concerning designs upon that Island, by transporting of Troops, raising seditions, or any other way to disturb the possession intended for the Duke of Savoy; or if your Lops have any proposals suggested to you of what else may be proper for her Majty to do in order to frustrate such attempts, you will please to apprize me of what comes to your knowledge that I may receive the Queens Commands upon the whole. 12 As to the Elector of Bavaria, if the French think his case hard; the Imperialists, and other her Matys Allys are of opinion that it is too much favoured. and I doubt there will be great contestations, and very many difficultys still raised before even that which is now designd for him, can be obtained. Upon this I must observe to your Lo:ps that it little becomes the French to complain of what is asked for the Duke of Savoy, & to term a Barrier, which they seem to own to be necessary, une demande offenante;13 when at the same time they make such pretensions in behalf of the Elector of Bavaria, and are complaining that enough is not done for him. 14 I find that Mr Watkins, who is Commissioned by her Maty to inspect the accounts relating to foreign Troops, has already examined the demands of the Country of Liege for Forrage furnished to the Prussians in her Matys pay, and has settled them as farr as relates to him. I shall put the papers given your Lops by the Resident of Liege into the Secretary at Warr Sr William Wyndhams hands, who is the proper Officer to receive her Matys Orders, and give an answer upon those matters. Her Maty approves of the answer, mentioned in your letter of ye 3d Janry,15 which your Lops gave to the plenipotentiarys of the States, when they pressed you to enter immediately into a discussion of matters, alth they had laid them before the Queen & desired new Instructions to be sent to you. Her Maty thinks your Lops conduct in this whole affair has been very right, and that the Dutch
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Ministers had no ground for the surprize which they showed on this occasion. Monsr van Borsele had an audience of the Queen on tuesday the 30th of Decr, and presented to her Maty the letter from his Masters the States General. on thursday he had a Conference with the Lords of the Committee at the Cockpit, and communicated to their Lops the Remarks made in Holland on the Project of a Treaty of Succession & Barrier,16 and on the propositions relating to peace made at the Hague by the Earl of Strafford. the Letter from the States to her Maty will very soon be answerd. an answer will likewise be returned to the Remarks, which, by the best that I can judge of her Matys intentions, will be a very short one. I dont see in the Overtures of the States, which I have received from Monr Van Borsele, that there is much relating to France. they seem calculated to take more from their allys, than from their Enemys. however I shall not fail to instruct the D.[uke] of Shrewsbury of the whole, when the Queen shall have taken her Resolution upon them. 17 I am not instructed to speak particularly upon the Interests of Portugal. I am however hopefull that means will be at last found to settle them in a very good manner. But whatever Bargain is made for them Spain must be a party to it; and therefore the admitting of the Spanish Ministers18 to the Congress must be a preliminary step to the doing any thing at all upon this subject. As to the Representation of the Ministers of the associated Circles,19 th I cannot observe any thing disrespectfull, yet there are some insinuations in it that have an invidious air. however I believe your Lo:ps would have had orders to give an answer in form to it, & that a very kind one too. but the Queen finding it to be printed in the Dutch news-papers, and a factious use to be made of that here, her Maty does not think fit to direct any particular notice to be taken from her of this Representation. your Lops may from your selves however very truly and very justly say, that there is nothing which the Queen could have more heartily desired, then to have been able to have done more for them. but they are too reasonable to imagine that after so long an opposition to the Queens measures by all her allys, and after the advantages which France in consequence of this has gained, her Maty should remain able to do all that She could wish to do, or all that formerly perhaps She was in a condition to do. 20 I have writ to my Lord Treasurer to put him in mind of paying the 200ll as her Matys Bounty to Mor Behrendorff. I believe nothing but his Lo:ps Indisposition, which does not permit him to go abroad, or to do business, can have hindered it. and I suppose the money will very soon be remitted. 21 We never had any knowledge here of an accord supposed to have been made among the allys for the Repartition of prisoners taken from the French during this Warr. neither can I find by Mr Cardonnel, who was Secretary to the Duke of Marlborough when he had the sole direction of those affaires, that there were ever any steps made in that matter. the Queen wishes she could make it easy
to the French, who must own themselves that it is not in her power. all that lay in her to do in regard to prisoners She has already done; and her Maty hopes that the prospect of peace is now so near, that it is less necessary to press this point. 22 As to the Representations in behalf of the protestants in the Empire, Silesia and Hungary I believe your Lops former orders will carry you to exert her Matys authority, and to use her name in all that is required by those papers. and your Lops may be assured that you can not do a more acceptable service to the Queen, than in supporting the Interest of the protestants to the utmost of your power on all occasions. 23 I must not let slip those paragraphs in your Lo:ps letter of the 27th of Decr which relate to King Augustus, and the affairs in the North. I enclose to your Lo:ps a Copy of that Princes24 letter to the Queen; and th it is indeed fuller, as Mr. Scott observes, than the answer given to his Memorial, yet I doubt your Lo:ps will find it neither so full, nor so clear as the case requires, and has [sic] her Matys Interposition deserves. The late turn of affairs25 puts King Augustus into such a condition, as will be in all probability irretrievable without the hearty and united Efforts of all his protestant friends, and particularly of the Queen. this consideration may perhaps quicken the return of the Prince Electoral, and the misfortunes of the Father may prove the salvation of the son according to the wise and secret dispositions of providence. The Queens good offices are, and have been at all times ready to compose the troubles in the North; and since in this conjuncture they are likely to be accepted, your Lo:ps will do well again to offer them to all the partys concerned. I confess I much doubt whether they can be yet a while employed effectually since the King of Sweden hitherto insists on a preliminary which the Queen cannot think in her present circumstances of making good to him, I mean the full effect of the Treatys of Travendahl and Alt-Randstadt; and I hardly believe the Northern Allys are brought low enough by the victory of the Swedes and the Rupture of the Turks to submit to such terms, and at once to renounce all those flattering hopes which they have so long indulged. 26 I must before I conclude say something to your Lo:ps upon that part of your Letter of the 6th which relates to the Evacuation of Catalonia, and to the new turn which the Councills of the Emperor seem to take. Monr Hoffman27 had entertained me yesterday upon this head, and by Turner28 the Messenger, who arrived a few hours ago I received your Lops dispatch of the 10th, part whereof relates to the same subject. After I shall have reported on monday to her Maty in Councill the propositions which the Imperial Resident has made I shall be able to send your Lo:ps very ample Instructions not only as to the Evacuation of Catalonia, but likewise as to the other points which the Imperialists press. at present I can only say that the Duke of Argylls return does indeed create a very great dif-
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ficulty;29 but that I believe the very odd answer which the Marshall Staremberg thought fit to give to his Grace, when he first made the proposition in pursuance of his Instructions of evacuating Catalonia, was the principle motive which induced the Duke to hasten home. Means will I hope be found by instructing Sr John Jennings, or some other way to overcome the difficulty. but surely the first step must be settling that Convention, which your Lops have indeed on your parts very rightly promoted, and which I am somewhat surprized to hear the French Ministers are not instructed about. I take it for granted the reason of this must be that the Court of France imagined the whole would have been adjusted in Spain. As to the Transport I am afraid her Matys Engagements both by Treaty and by verbal promises do amount to what the Imperial Ministers say.30 As to the general Amnesty and Restitution of honour and Estates the Spaniards will certainly not agree to it, unless it be reciprocal, neither has the Emperor on any other foot a pretence to demand it. to facilitate the Evacuation the Amnesty for the Catalans would I believe be granted even now.31 In a Negociation of so great length, so wide an Extent, and so much perplexity, it is not to be wondered at if mistakes sometimes happen, and propositions are sometimes misunderstood. for my own part I am particularly unknowing in matters of Trade,32 and may therefore not only have ill comprehended your Lo:ps sense, but perhaps ill explained her Matys, for which I hope to be excused. your Lo:ps last letter sets the great point in dispute in so clear a light that I think it is impossible for me to err, and I confess freely to your Lo:ps I had not the same Idea of it before.33 as my next dispatch will probably be none of the shortest, tis high time to give yr Lordsps some rest, by concluding this with my most sincere assurances that I am My Lords yr Lordsps most faithful and most humble servant Bolingbroke34
P. S. Since my writing this letter I have lookd over the last dispatch which I received from Mr Pryor, wherein I find a paper given him by Monr de Torcy relating to the Articles of Commerce, of which I send your Lo:ps a Copy. It is plain by this that the French aim at reducing the Dutys payable in England to a proportion with the Tarif of 1664, as I took their design to be in my letter of the 24th Decr; and I am still afraid that the turn your Lo:ps give it in your letter of the 10th of Janry is not the real meaning of France, and therefore it ought to be explained so clearly as not to admit of any farther difficulty.36 Bolingbroke Endorsement (in ?Robinsons hand): Lord Bolinbroke/Janry 3. 1712/13.37
1. A contemporary copy of this letter is preserved in BL Add. 22206, fols 817.
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See a letter from the Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., dated Utrecht, 30 December n.s. 1712, for discussion of the remaining differences in the projects of peace and commerce following a conference on 29th n.s. between the French and British Plenipotentiaries. NA, SP 84/244, fols 6404. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Treaty of Peace & Commerce. 3. The French Plenipotentiaries refused to change the words cedendis and restituendis in Article 9 of the project of a Treaty of Peace, and insisted that French subjects should be permitted to sell their immovable property in all places given up by France. With so much at stake in the negotiations, the British and French were sometimes over-cautious: stiff because in the dark, neither side knowing whether the subject of our dispute be of great or little or any importance at all. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 December n.s. 1712. NA, SP 84/244, fol. 641. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: French not to sell their immovables in the places to be yeilded. 4. The Lords Plenipotentiaries agreed to let stand French additions to Article 10 of the project of a Treaty of Peace. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 December n.s. 1712. NA, SP 84/244, fol. 641. MS note written in unidentified hand beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206: 10 Article of the Treaty of peace. 5. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: 12 Article. 6. Letter 548. 7. MS note written beside this passage in BL Add. 22206 in same hand as body of letter: French fishing on Newfoundland. 8. Prior to B., Versailles, 17/28 December 1712, enclosing several documents and letters including a proposal by Torcy demanding the preservation of French fishing rights on Newfoundland. On 8/19 January 1713, Prior sent B. a Memoir by Torcy, dated 14 and 17 January n.s. 1713, concerning Newfoundland. B. Corres., vol. 3, pp. 2389; 2978. 9. In conference with Robinson and Strafford, the French refused to yield to the Duke of Savoy the valleys near Exilles and Fenestrelles, and merely offered not to quarter troops there. However, the Lords Plenipotentiaries, who were committed to upholding the Dukes interests, insisted that France cede these places to Victor Amadeus. NA, SP 84/244, fol. 642v. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Barriere of Savoy. See Mellardes Memorial concerning the Duke of Savoys Barrier. n.p. 19 December 1712. Dpartment Des Affaires trangres, Paris. Correspondence Politique. I. Angletterre. Vol. 240 (Supplment), fols 26971v. 10. The French claimed that the Sicilians were opposed to Victor Amadeus, and that the Spanish troops employed there would be unwilling to keep the peace. However, Robinson and Strafford suspected this was only urgd as an argument for dispatching our work here. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 December n.s. 1712. NA, SP 84/244, fol. 642v. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Sicily. 11. This may refer to a letter from Dartmouth to Sir John Jennings, dated Whitehall, 19 July 1712, which concerns the suspension of arms by sea, and contains orders for not attacking a French Levant fleet of corn ships. New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division. Montague Collection of Historical Autographs, Box 10. Unfoliated. 12. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Elector of Bavaria. The French protested, on behalf of Max Emanuel, that if the Dutch
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The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 3 garrisoned Luxemburg, Namur and Charleroi, and if the Emperor refused to make peace, the Elector would be left in exile. SP 84/244, fol. 643. MS note written beside this passage in B.s hand: I think they deserve to be told que cest un refus offencant. The Resident of Liege handed the Lords Plenipotentiaries a paper for B. concerning the payment of arrears. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 December n.s. 1712. NA, SP 84/244, fol. 643v. Henry Watkins was agent for James Brydges, Paymaster-General of the British forces. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Liege. MS note written beside this passage in B.s hand: The Dutch. At a conference between the British and Dutch Plenipotentiaries on 31 December n.s., the Dutch Plenipotentiaries delivered a copy of a letter from the States-General to Queen Anne, dated 30 n.s., together with remarks upon the Treaty of Barrier and Succession. When pressed by the Dutch plenipotentiaries to enter immediately into discussion of the Barrier Treaty, the British declined: if they had made direct application to us, we should have been under no difficulty to act according to our Instructions; and as they could not but remember, the Earl of Strafford told them at the Hague, the Proposals we made there were her Majestys ultimate, our work would accordingly have been pretty short. But they having laid the whole before ... [the Queen], & prayed that new Instructions may be sent us, we thought it our Duty to wait the return. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 3 January n.s. 1713. NA, SP 84/246, fols 11v. On 3 January n.s. 1713, the Dutch informed Robinson and Strafford they had powers to sign the Barrier Treaty as soon as they had received the Queens reply to their letter. Coombs, Conduct, p. 336; for the States-Generals letter to the Queen, delivered by Borssele, see Coombs, p. 366. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Portugal. The Portuguese ministers at Utrecht gave Robinson and Strafford a copy of a letter from the King of Portugal to Queen Anne, dated 6 December n.s. 1712, offering to leave Portuguese interests to the Queens disposal. In order to make their demands more acceptable to the Queen, the Portuguese said they were prepared to renounce all their interests except in Brazil, Alburquerque, Badajoz, the port of Vigo, and the castle of Guarda. SP 84/246, fol. 2. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Spanish Ministers. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Associated Circles. The Lords Plenipotentiaries sent B. a representation from the four circles, dated Utrecht 30 December n.s. 1712, promoting their interests at the peace talks. When pressed by the ministers of the Circles, the Lords Plenipotentiaries answered vaguely that the Merits of the Circles were well enough known as to render any words of ours needless. NA, SP 84/246, fols 3, 57. A copy of Article 8 and 9 of the Accession of the Circles of the Electoral Rhine, Franconia, Suabia and the Upper Rhine to the Grand Alliance of 7 September 1701, signed at Nordlingen, 22 March 1702 (ratified by Queen Anne 20 June 1702), was enclosed in a letter from the Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 3 January n.s. 1713. The Articles are preserved in NA, SP 84/246, fols 910. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: M.r Berendorff. On 2 January n.s. 1713, Buys showed Robinson an Ordinance of the States-General offering to pay the Hungarian agent, Bierensdorff , 1,000 Gilders (then
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The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 3 sentence, is preserved in the Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/JO/10/6/239/3069, fols 1422v. This is endorsed by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford: reade in ye House/2d Aprill 1714 (referring to extracts of B.s letters to the Lords Plenipotentiaries: 19 September 1712; 24 September 1712; 3 January 1712/13; 7 January 1712/13; 13 February 1712/13; 25 April 1713). MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Trade. Remainder of paragraph including signature in B.s hand; the postscript is in the same hand as the rest of the letter but is signed by B. See Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 6 January n.s. 1713, enclosing proposals for evacuating Catalonia. NA, SP fols 1723. MS note written beside this passage in an unidentified hand: vertu. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand: Trade. Signature in B.s hand. For Torcys proposal about the Tariff of 1664, see B. Corres., vol. 3, p. 262; and for the Lords Plenipotentiaries comments on the Tariff, see their letter to B., Utrecht, 10 January n.s. 1713, NA, SP 84/246, fols 256. Endorsement (in BL Add. 22206 in unidentified hand): Lord Bolingbroke to/the Lords Plenip:ys/3.d Jan:ry 1712/13 O. S. [O.S. inserted in Straffords hand]. A second endorsement BL Add. 22206 in Straffords hand: L.ds Plenipos Letters of the 27th & 30th/Dec.r & 3.d & 6th Jan:ry N. S. acknowledgd./ab.[ou]t the Differences in ye Treatys of/Peace & Commerce with France./ab.[ou]t the Barrier of Savoy./ab.[ou]t Sicily./ab.[ou]t the Elector of Bavaria./Monsr. Van Borseles audience of/the Queen &c./the pretentions of Portugal./ Those of the associated Circles./ab.[ou]t Mr Berensdorff./ab.[ou]t the Exchange of Prisoners./ab.[ou]t ye protestants [sic] in ye Empire &c./The Prince of Saxonys Religion./affairs of the north./ab.[ou]t the Evacuation of Catalonia/ab.[ou]t Commerce with France.
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645. TO: LORDS PLENIPOTENTIARIES: JOHN ROBINSON, BISHOP OF BRISTOL, and THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1st EARL of STRAFFORD and 3rd BARON RABY. Whitehall. 7 January 1712/13. [In a secretarys hand but signed by B.] Text: MS, BL Add. 37273, fols 1132.1
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My Lords. I send you herewith the Queens letter to the States General in answer to theirs of the 29th of December.2 I send your Lo:ps likewise a Copy3 of the Remarks made by the States on the project of a new Treaty of Succession and Barrier &c as they were delivered to me by Monr van Borsele. I have given a Copy of her Matys letter to that Minister; but I have not put into his hands any written answer to the Remarks, the Queen thinking it proper to communicate her sense upon those matters only to your Lo:ps. The Flying-Post of the 3d instant, which goes enclosed,4 will let your Lops see that the factious party here had communication, as soon as the Queen, of the Resolution of the States; and in looking over this
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paper you will easily observe the malicious use that they have made of it. And therefore in the beginning of your Conference with the Dutch Plenipotentiarys your Lo:ps are to take notice of it as an Affront and Indignity to the Queen, which her Maty cannot bear; and in speaking of this proceeding you will please to treat it with the severest terms, and with the utmost Indignation, as by the Queens express Command. your Lops will likewise do well to let the States know that if they renew those methods of appealing to her Ma:tys Subjects, they have nothing to expect from them but the same ill success, which they had when they tryed that way before. I mention this the rather, and dwell the longer upon it, because we have a good reason to believe that the States are running once more into that dangerous Error, which has cost them already so dear, of depending upon efforts to be made on our side of the water to disturb the Queens affairs, and that in this view they will keep us in suspence, as much as in them lyes, in expectation of what may be done in parliament to strengthen them by perplexing the Treaty. your Lo:ps will be extremely in the right to use your best endeavours to cure them of any such expectation, as this may be; and you may give them to understand that her Maty apprehends nothing from such a conduct in respect to her own service; She is only concerned for their Interest on this account. 5After this Introduction your Lo:ps may proceed to explain to the Ministers of the States the Queens sense upon the several Remarks which were made on the project of the Treaty, and on what was represented by you, my Lord Strafford, at the Hague relating to the Peace. 6 As to the Amendment desired in the preamble upon the Clause, quiq[ue], nisi emendationes aliqu ex quo adhibeantur, jam nunc injuriosi, et proinde ex ijs qu hinc olim sequi poterint, commodis, rationibusq subditorum dict su Regi Majestatis periculum allaturi videantur. The Queen thinks these words very much to the purpose, and necessary to be retained; this being one of the four reasons for making a new Treaty of Succession and Barrier; and the omission thereof not only renders the preamble lame, but also gives indirectly a pretence to say that her Maty has departed from those complaints which She made of the ill usage which her Subjects have received, and of the worse treatment which they have reason to fear from the use which the Dutch make of the places and powers given to them in order to form their Barrier. 7 The words, dictusq[ue] Tractatus Articuliq[ue] duo prfati rescinduntur jam, irritiq[ue] declarantur, which are objected to in the first article appear to us to be proper words in this case. and the Queen knows not what the States aim at by excepting against a form of expression which is usual in annulling acts of the like nature; wherefore her Maty thinks that the disputing them has made it necessary that they shoud be insisted upon. 8 As to the amendments in the 2d Article, the Title of most Excellent was used in respect to the Princess Sophia because it is the Parliamentary phrase, and employed in all the acts, Resolutions, or other proceedings relating to the Suc-
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cession. where therefore the Title of an act of Parliament, or any clause of an act is recited, it will be proper strictly to adhere to the words of the Law. in any other place the Title of most Serene may be given, which style her Ma:ty uses as well to the Princess Sophia, as to the Elector of Hanover. The amendment made by the States of adding the words ex Ill natorum after Hredum Majestatis su Regi in the clause beginning at - sin autem conti[n]gerit &c9 would have been unnecessary, if it had not been for an omission in the Transcript of the project sent to them; but it is to be observed that this amendment was equally necessary in places not taken notice of in the Remarks of the States, as in those that were. and it is a little odd that they should not think of adding those words as well in the case of mentioning the Heirs of the Princess Sophia, as in that of the Heirs of the Queen. your Lo:ps will see in the English Draught put into the hands of you, my Lord Strafford, that wherever mention is made of the Heirs either of the Queen or of the Princess Sophia in this article, of her Body, is added, which I find our Lawyers usually express by their Latin phrase de corpore suo; which words may therefore be inserted where they have been omitted. The amendment of adding prdictas [aforesaid] to Leges [laws] is unnecessary, and in some sort improper; since as there have been several Laws already made relating to the Protestant Succession, so probably there may be others hereafter. and th the Treaty can only referr to such Laws, as now exist; yet the clause of Guaranty should have relation in general to all which have been, or may be made. The amendment of adding the words ex Ill natis after the words Hredibus Ejus, is answered by what was said before. The amendment of adding the words nunc determinatam, after the words Devolutionem, Limitationem, Hreditatemve Coron ejusdem Regi,10 is of a very extraordinary nature. the Law says that no person has any Right to question or oppose any provision made by the parliament of Great Britain touching the Descent, Limitation and Inheritance of the Imperial Crown thereof; and it is made High Treason to contradict this position. now the amendment of the States either means nothing at all, or does in the recital of this very Law contradict it. for to assert that Inheritance of the Crown to be now determined, which no power or person hath any Right to question or oppose, implyes very strongly that any power or person might question or oppose any future provision of parliament touching the Descent, Limitation, and Inheritance of the Crown, which in a Subject of the Queens is, according to what is abovesaid high Treason. your Lops may observe the invidious affectation of the States in their Remarks on this Article, and you would do well to let them know how much the Queen is obliged to them for assisting her in explaining the Laws of Great Britain. but her Maty having ordered the Omission in the Transcript to be rectifyed, does not think fit to admit of the other amendments of the States.
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I am to take notice to your Lo:ps of two small alterations which should have been made in the Latin Transcript, as being more conformable to the originall English Draught. in the beginning of this Article, the disjunctive particle vel in the period et deficiente prole ex Regina vel Rege supramemoratis oriund,11 is not agreable to the true meaning of the Law, as implying that after the Heirs either of the Queen or of the late King, the Princess Sophia should succeed. whereas it is to be taken in the conjunctive sence, after the Heirs both of the Queen, and of the late King. your Lops will find in the English Draught that the word and is used, and if in the Latin Copy atq[ue] etiam were put in the room of vel,12 the expression would be more proper in this case, & conformable to the intent of the Act. Towards the end of the Article in the clause sin autem contigerit &c if after the words Bello aperto vel Conspiratione the word proditori13 were inserted it would more exactly answer the terms of the Law; in the English your Lo:ps will see it is, Traiterous Conspiracy. But if the Dutch should think that we have any particular aim in this, you will please to treat it as an amendment very indifferent. 14 Upon the Amendments to the 4th Article your Lops may observe, That as to Cond, the Queen is not, as She expresses her self in her letter to the States, in a condition to insist on the same things for them now, as She was in the beginning of the last year. and it may be added, that neither are they very well entitled to expect the same advantages from France, and the same assistances from her Maty, after doing all that was in their power to force the Negociation out of their hands, and to break thr all the measures taken to promote a peace; after having put all the partys concerned in the warr to that Expence of Blood and Treasure, which the last Campain has cost; and after having thrown away that Superiority in the field by separating from the Queen, which they maintained as long as they continued united with her, as they might have expected had they from the first complyed with her Matys desires, and their own Interest. you my Lord Strafford was instructed to call upon them for the last time, to give them notice that the Queen could keep her Treaty no longer open, and to inform them not so much what preliminarys they might have to negociate upon, as what seemed to be the 15ultimate Resolution their delays had encouraged France to take. the substance of this answer, which is applyed to the demand of Cond,16 may likewise be applyed, as I shall observe on the 2d part of these Remarks, to the case of his Imperial Maty, of the four Circles, and others, with this addition, That her Maty, as She long ago declared in her speech to parliament, does not take upon her to determine the Interests of her Allys; that the Congress still subsists; that they may treat for themselves; and that the best offices, which they have left it in her Matys power to employ, will still be used for them. 17 As to the leaving out Dendermonde, your Lops will observe that there is a great difference between the influence which that place has, and which the Castle of Gand has with respect to the Navigation of the River. for, as your Lo:ps
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will have seen in the marginal observations on this article in the project, the Schelde not passing under the Castle of Gand, the Commerce thr that Town seems not to be so immediately commanded by the garrison in the Castle; But Dendermonde lying upon the River, which runs thr several of the works, renders the Trade of it very insecure and precarious whenever the possessors of that Town shall think fit to interrupt the passage. this distinction, however slight at the bottom it may appear, whenever there is any danger of our Commerce being obstructed, the Queen has laid hold of out of her good disposition to gratify the States in respect to the Castle of Gand, and wherever there was the least colour for it, her Maty has readily taken the advantage in their favour. Upon the demand of putting a Dutch Garrison into Fort St Mary18 in case the point of Dendermonde is not yielded; your Lops may take notice how insincere the States are in their pretences, and how much more they aim at blocking up the great Towns, and interrupting the Trade of the Netherlands, than barely at keeping a communication with their Barrier. Dendermonde indeed by its situation appears to be proper enough to keep the Communication they pretend to want. but Fort St Mary which lyes below Antwerp cannot be very usefull for that purpose, but seems rather intended to be a bridle to that city, and to strengthen their command over the commerce of the Schelde. Upon the amendment made in the first part of the 5th Article it was observed that the addition of the words vel etiam provinci Hispano Belgic,19 as it seems not lyable to objection, so neither is it of any necessity: In the 3d Article it is provided non solum ut Provinci Hispano Belgic, verum Urbes, &c firmando Ordinum Generalium Repagulo sive Barriere inserviant.20 If therefore these Countrys are made in general, as they will be by this Treaty, the Barrier of the States, to attack them will be to attack the States. The words vel ejus adhrentibus,21 will leave the Restriction too general, and will give the States an opportunity, which is what her Maty would avoid, to take possession of these provinces whenever they please, and to make use of them against whomsoever they please. the words, aperte potuerit Galliam Ipsos aggressuram esse,22 are expressive enough to answer the cases which they suppose; for let France attack them under what borrowed names, and thr what artificial canals she pleases, if France appears really to be at the bottom of the design, the States will easily apply these words aperte potuerit to secure themselves, and use the Right of doing what this Article empowers them to do. 23 Conventum ver cum sit quod provinciarum Hispano Belgicarum proprium et supremum Dominium ad Csaream suam Majestatem pertineat &c in the beginning of the 9th Article, is a supposition very proper, and a common form used in Treaty, th the matter spoke of has not been antecedently settled to the making of the Treaty. the Sovereignty of these Countrys, which are taken from France, can go to no one so properly, as to the Emperor, and her Maty does not
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care to leave the matter indefinite. the Queen indeed is at a loss to find by what Title the States pretend to have more to do in the disposal of this Sovereignty, than her self; or how they come to be better entitled than She is to ask an Equivalent for the Cession of it. It is observable that this proceeding of laying a claim to the sovereignty of the places to be yielded by France, which were not in the possession of King Charles the 2d at the time of his death, or at least to the disposal of it, as if it were their own, is not of a piece with the frequent professions made by the States that they seek not Dominion, that they only ask security. the Declarations they made in their letter to her Maty of the 19th of Feb: last 1712 (que nous navons jamais eu la pense, ni ne lavons pas encore de nous rendre maitres des pais Bas Espagnols en tout ou en partie;) and those they have newly made in their last (nous navons en vee pour notre Etat que la Conservation de nos Droits et notre Seuret, et point dautre augmentation ou aggrandissement que celuy qui nous est necessaire pour cette conservation et seuret)24 seem here not easily reconcileable with their pretending to dispute a part of the Right of Sovereignty with the Emperor, & not to yield it but conditionally. The remaining Remarks upon this Article are of such a nature, as make it impossible for her Maty, and if it were possible, unjust to agree with the States upon them without the participation of the prince to whom these Countrys are to belong. Besides which it would be a work of greater time than can now be spared to make the several distinctions and appropriations of the Revenues and other matters therein mentioned. the general words are sufficient; the Detail of these and other points must be settled by virtue of a subsequent Convention before the Emperor can be admitted into possession. and therefore as on the one hand the States run no danger, so on the other it is not reasonable that they should tye the Queen down to so blind a Bargain. 25 As to the amendment upon the 12th Article her Maty sees no objection to the mentioning the Trade of the States General, as well as that of her own Subjects. It was only left out because they had not inserted it themselves as a condition for delivering up the Spanish Low-Countrys to the Emperor, in the Article of the first Treaty which answers to this, and because there is much less need of a provision to secure their Trade than to secure ours. But your Lo:ps will observe that the Clause Donec Commercia utilitatesq[ue] Subditorum Magn Britanni et Unitarum Belgij Provinciarum ad mentem Regi Su Majestatis et Dominorum Ordinum Generalium accommodat fuerint,26 is perplexed, and may run us into an absurdity by making the States a party to the settling of our Commerce to their satisfaction as well as the Queens, and so on the contrary her Maty would have the clauses separate Donec Commercia utilitatesq[ue] Subditorum Magn Britanni ad mentem Regi su Majestatis, itidemq[ue] Commercia atq[ue] utilitates subditorum Unitarum Belgij Provinciarum ad mentem Dominorum Ordinum Generalium accommodat fuerint.27
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The other particulars that follow after from Cterum intra spatium28 &c the Queen does not think fit to enter into at present, but takes them to be proper considerations for those Commissarys who are to meet after the Treaty, and not for the Treaty it self. Neither the Emperor nor the Spanish Netherlands need take any umbrage at her Ma:tys designs, She aims at nothing further, than the settling the Commerce of her Subjects on the foot it was in the time of King Charles the 2d,29 and the securing it from encroachments by reason of the Barrier. 30 The first part of the Observations on the 13th Article seems to be nothing but chicane. All her Maty desires, as I have said just before, is to enjoy the same as She enjoyed before the Warr, to have proper provisions made, to prevent future grievances by means of the Barrier, and to secure to her self a Right of claiming for her Subjects hereafter such privileges and advantages as the States General may by means of the power, which this Treaty gives them, obtain for theirs. It must be owned that if upon examination it shall be found that the Subjects of her Maty had any privileges in the time of King Charles the second particular to themselves, & distinct from those allowed to the Dutch, her Maty thinks She is well founded to insist upon having them continued in the same manner, and sees no reason that her Subjects should suffer in any wise, because their blood and Treasure have been so long exhausted to procure this accession of strength to the States. It may be likewise observed that an Equality in stipulation, would not very probably prove an Equality in effect, when the Dutch would have all the strong places in their power, and so many other privileges, distinct from ours, on account of their Barrier in ten provinces. If the Dutch were not to have these possessions, and this Country was not to be thrown into quite a new form of government, there would be no need of these provisions. It is their Barrier which puts our Trade in danger; therefore such precautions are necessary for us, as they have no occasion for. 31 As to the clause or Article which they desire relating to the Schelds, the Canals of the Sas, Swyn &c, It is matter of great surprize to the Queen to see that the States still insist on one of those advantages, which were in so shamefull and so imposing a manner, even against the Rule laid down by themselves, obtained from us in the first Treaty. It is true that by the Articles of the Treaty of Munster32 they got those privileges from the Crown of Spain. but let it be observed at the same time that in a little upwards of forty years after the death of Queen Elizabeth,33 that princess who so gloriously and so generously raised and supported their Republick, they procured stipulations so prejudicial to these Kingdomes, and at a time too when England was under such confusions as made her wholly unable to speak for her self. And would they now too, after we have done so great things for their aggrandizement, make us a party to this Treaty, and engage our formal consent to conditions which were got without our knowledge or approbation, and against our Interests.
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The term of 15 days for the meeting of the Commissarys may be prolonged, by making it Ratihabitione hujus Tractatus instead of subscriptione,34 which will give time enough. for all unnecessary delays are to be avoided upon this head, because there can be no settlement of the government of these provinces, neither can her Matys Troops evacuate Gand and Bruges untill the work be concluded, which these Commissarys are to meet upon. 35 The Amendments to the 14th Article are already answered in the observations on the amendments to the 2d. 36 Upon the 15th Article the Queen sees no need either of limiting the time, or of specifying any particular Invitation. What is proposed by the States for making good the Repayment of the Summs borrowed on the Revenues of the Ten Provinces for the service of the War, seems reasonable; and her Maty will no doubt joyn with the States in obtaining the Confirmations necessary of the Emperor. But they themselves give a reason in their own Remarks why the Queens guaranty is unnecessary in this case; and that is, that She her self is a party to all these agreements. 37 As to the upper quarter of Guelder, it is to be observed, 1st that the Treaty by which they claim their Right to it, gives them that Right on condition of an Equivalent only. 2ly that the Equivalent which the States now propose, is really none of their own to give; and 3dly that the argument drawn from the necessity of a communication is full as strong, if not stronger against them than for them. for it is certain that they have hitherto maintained their communication with Mastricht, th Venlo, Ruremonde, and the places on the Maes were not in their hands. And it is as certain that if they were put into their hands all Communication would be thereby cut off between the Empire and the Ten Provinces; and the latter absolutely and without interruption would be invested by the power and possessions of the Seven.38 the Queen is therefore desirous to have this Article amicably adjusted with his Imperial Maty and the Empire; and She flatters her self that the States Generall will not find fault that She shows this regard to them, to whose Representations, and to whose Interests their High Mightinesses have in the course of this year paid so much respect. 39 As to Bonn the Queen thinks there is not the least colour for insisting on it. and as to Keyserswaert their demand is new./ In relation to the 2d part of the Remarks of the States, which are on what you, my Lord Strafford, represented at your return to Holland concerning the peace;40 what is mentioned about Cond, is already answered by what has been said on the amendments to the 4th Article. The Expression of estant propos par le Comte de Strafford &c41 is to be taken notice of as not right nor proper. for they were the propositions of France which the Queen communicated to the States, but did not make her self; and therefore She would not have it mistaken, as if they were of her dictating. As to
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Luxemburg there have been some thoughts of giving it to the Duke of Lorrain as an Equivalent for the Montferrat, which he so justly demands, and which has been so solemnly promised him. If he be put in possession, it will be necessary in that case to take care of garrisoning the Town, and not leave so important a place to so weak a prince as that Duke. the Queen had not determined any thing in her own mind concerning the disposal of Luxemburg, and She will have no dispute with the States on this head. her Maty is easy & ready to negociate with the Imperialists and the Dutch, and to come into such Expedients as may be proper, which way soever this affair turns, whether it be given to the Duke of Lorrain as an Equivalent, or left to the Emperor. 42 As to the four Species which France pretends to except in granting the Tarif of 1664, it is a point in which the Queen is concerned as well as the States according to their own Remarks. therefore there is no doubt to be made but that she has done all that she could do to get these Exceptions dispensed with. But I believe at last her Maty would not think that she made an ill Bargain, if the Tarif of 1664 were effectually granted both to her and to the States, and some Expedient were found as to the four Species; such as this perhaps, the referring them to Commissioners43 to compromise the difference between France on one side, and the Queen and the States on the other. your Lo:ps will please to observe that I say at last, because her Matys opinion is that this matter should, if possible, be determined in the Treaty, and nothing left to Commissioners. 44 In relation to the Principality of Orange, and what belongs to the Succession of the late King William within the Territorys of France, the Queen does not understand that there is any dispute with the French Court about that matter, but looks upon it as a point yielded. her Maty thinks what the States propose just, of having that Succession put into their hands as Executors of the late King to be disposed of as it shall be agreed, or determined by Law. but as this is an affair which must be discussed with the King of Prussia, the Queen will readily employ her good offices in adjusting it. 45 As to the great Debts which the States pretend to be due to them from the Crown of Spain it is very reasonable they should treat for the payment of them; and when the Spanish Ministers come to the Congress they will have an opportunity of doing it themselves. 46 Upon the Terms for the allys and the restitution of Strasbourg I have nothing in Commission to say further than what has been already explained in the case of Cond, except this which I may add from my self, that I remember to have seen the time when Strasburg might have been obtained. but the Emperor, the Princes of the Empire and the States may thank themselves if that opportunity was lost. 47 The particulars mentioned in the last Article of these Remarks about the Duke of Savoy, the Elector of Bavaria &c are matters of Negociation, and the
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or great, that they have a mind to make upon the Revenues or privileges of the Spanish Netherlands. 51 Since I came thus farr I have had the Flying Post of yesterday brought to me, which I send inclosed. in it your Lo:ps will see that several articles of the project are printed, with a malicious Translation added to them. It is certain that the Copy did not come from me, and it is as certain that it could not be given by your Lo:ps, and therefore it must have been communicated by the States as other things have been before . This is such usage as the Queen can by no means submit to. if projects of solemn Treatys under dabate, if papers of the highest consequence unsigned must be given out to be published in Libels and scandalous news papers, these proceedings are not to be endured, and we must break off all correspondence with the Dutch./ 52 Notwithstanding that my dispatch is already run to so excessive a length, yet I must according to my promise run thr the heads of a Convention for evacuating Catalonia, which I received in your Lo:ps letter of the 6th. her Maty has considered them, and thinks that for the most part they are very reasonable. I shall endeavour to be as concise in the Remarks as I can; but your Lops will please to take this along with you, that wherever the Queens sense is delivered upon these matters, her Maty pretends to determine nothing, She only observes. The 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. & 6th Articles her Maty approves. As to the 7th Article which reserves the regulating what is further necessary in this business to the Generals and Admirals. Sr John Jennings will have this Commission on the Queens part, and will be ordered to supply what the Duke of Argyll should have done, in concerting the Evacuation, in taking care of the Transportation of the Troops, and in mediating between the two partys in the Execution of this whole affair.53 The 8th Art[icle] salvis addendis seems unnecessary after what is said in the th 7 [.]54 Upon the 9th Article I am to take notice, that as to a particular Amnesty for the Catalans, and the Security of their Estates and honours it suffers no difficulty, the King of Spain having already granted that in complyance with the Queens desires. But I believe, from the answer which my Lord Lexington received upon that head, if the point of privileges is insisted on it will create difficulty. Her Maty however will certainly endeavour to get for them all that can be got.55 In relation to the 10th,56 11th,57 and 12th58 Articles, which stipulate a general Amnesty and the conditions of it; It is thought too hasty to pretend to stipulate a general Amnesty here, which seems more proper to be treated of in the general peace, and if Spain should consent to it in this Convention the Emperor must think of making it reciprocal. your Lo:ps will observe that the particular Amnesty for Catalonia, before any thing reciprocal is granted on the part of the Emperor, is an advantage which we have gained from Spain. and whatever is defective in that
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several particulars in Mr Pryors Letters I am more and more confirmed, that the French intend by their Com:[missione]rs to reform intirely our books of Rates, and bring them to an equality with their Tarif of 1664.66 67 I am very glad to see by the paper inclosed in your Lo:ps letter of the 10th that the differences in our Treaty of peace are brought to so narrow a compass.68 the principal point, besides that of Cape Breton and the Fishery on Newfoundland, seems to be concerning the Clause, Et Bona sua immobilia vendendi.69 It is wondered why the French are so very stiff in that matter upon Accadie, and St Christophers,70 which we have taken from them, and are in actual possession of. the Treaty of Breda which they alledge, is a Treaty which we look upon here with shame and regret. but, if I mistake not, we were then Masters of Accadie & Nova Scotia, and the French were not well founded to pretend that we had usurped that possession of them, or had deprived any of their Subjects of their Estates; which makes a principal difference. I did not expect they would appear so easy in respect of Newfoundland.71 for th we pretend an ancient Right to all that Island, yet as to the French Colonys about Placentia I do not know that the Queens subjects ever made any settlements there, that we might complain were unjustly taken from them. 72 As to the addition in the 20th Article, we thought that those general words would have done our business, as being a tacit Repeal of the Clause of the 4th Article of the Treaty of Ryswick, and at the same time salved well enough the point of honour in France. If the protestant Ministers will be contented with less than the Queen has insisted upon her Maty cant help it; but She thinks it proper that your Lo:ps should stick to the additional Clause to the last.73 I am my Lords with much respect yr Lordsps most humble & obedient servt Bolingbroke
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M: Attorney Gen. . Sir I am, by the Queens command, to desire that you will prepare such a draught of a Proclamation as you shall judge proper, to prevent any further Impressement in pursuance of the Act passd last Sessions of Parliament, for recruiting her Maj.tys Land Forces and Marines,1 and that you will bring the same to the Councill which is ordered to meet this Evening at S.r Jamess. I am S.r Your most humble serv.t Bolingbroke.
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640. TO: SIR EDWARD NORTHEY, ATTORNEY GENERAL. Whitehall. 30 December 1712. [Contemporary copy in unidentified hand.

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The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 3

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