bly beg leave to throw themselves a your majesty' feet, to renew tteir oath of allegiance, and to implore your royal protection.

Thefe fubjects, given you by the hand of victory, and destined to transmit by their offspring, to lateft pofterity, the glory of your majefty's arms, blefs the God of hofts for having placed them under your majefty's dominion, fince fate was to remove them from that of the prince under whose power they were born. They glory in being able, from the foot of your throne, to admire in their new mafter the fovereign of the feas, the conqueror of the age, the pacifer of Europe, and the illuftrious object of the love of the most illuftrious of all nations.

What may not thefe happy Britons promise themselves from the fequel of a reign fo illuftrious in its beginning! and how flattering is it to your fubjects of Grenada, to be intitled to partake, in time to come, of the fplendor and glory which your majefty gives to Great Britain, and the name of British fubjects!

If the valour and ftrength of your majefty's arms are proved (as in effect they are) by a rapidity of conqueft, of which the astonished universe scarcely finds any example in hiftory; your treaties with your enemies render equally memorable your benevolence for all mankind, the greatnefs of your foul, and the profound wisdom of your

councils.

Your majefty, in giving peace to Europe, has acquired as much glory as advantage; and your goodness to the inhabitants of your conquefts, in granting them the free exercise of their religion,

and, as far as the laws will permit, the privileges of Britons, proves to the world, that your majefty defires only to reign over happy fubjects.

There is indeed nothing wanting to make them completely happy, but the favour they hope your majesty will grant them, of enjoying, without diftinction, every advantage of a British subject.

What may they not hope from your majefty's goodness, after the proof given this colony of Gre nada, of your paternal tenderness in appointing her a governor, who, after having diftinguished himself by his valour in the neighbouring islands, is, by his abilities, and the goodness of his heart, become the object of the admiration, the confidence and affection of the conquered people, and that in a manner as honourable to himself, as advantageous to his country.

We befeech your majefty to permit us to affure you, that your majefty has no fubjects more faithful and thankful; more jealous of the fupport and increase of your glory; none in whofe hearts you reign more fovereignly, and are more warmly difpofed to ferve their new country, with their lives and fortunes, than your fubjects of Grenada.

May it please the Sovereign who protects kings, and fearches hearts, to watch inceffantly on the prefervation of your majefty, to complete your glory, and atteft the fincerity of our fentiments and

VOWS.

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Extract from his moft Chriftian majefty's letter to M. d'Abbadie, director general and commandant for his majefty in Louisiana, ordering him to deliver up to his Catholic majefty all the French poffeffions in North America not already ceded to Great-Britain; from the original, printed by Denis Braud, printer to the king at New Orleans, in October 1764, and circulated amongst the French inhabitants there.

Monf. D'Abbadie,

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Y a special act, done at Fontainebleau, Nov. 3, 1762, of my own will ard mere motion, having ceded to my very dear and best beloved coufin the king of Spain, and to his fucceffors, in full property, purely and fimply, and without any exceptions, the whole country known by the name of Louisiana, together with New Orleans, and the island in which the faid city is fituated; and by another act done at the Efcurial Nov. 13, in the fame year, his Catholic majefty having accepted the ceffion of the faid country of Louifiana, and the city and island of New Orleans, agreeable to the copies of the faid acts, which you will find hereunto annexed; I write you this letter to inform you, that my intention is, that on receipt of these prefents, whether they come to your hands by the officers of his Catholic majesty, or directly by fuch French veffels as may be charged with the fame, you are to deliver up to the governor, or officer appointed for that purpose by the king of Spain, the faid country and colony of Louifiana, and the posts thereon depend

ing, likewife the city and ifland of New Orleans, in fuch ftate and condition as they fhall be found to be in on the day of the faid ceffion, willing that in all time to come they fhall belong to his Catholic majefty, to be governed and adminiftered by his governors and officers, and as poffeffed by him in full property without any exceptions.

At the fame time, I hope for the profperity and peace of the inhabitants of the colony of Louifiana, and promise myfelf, from the friendship and affection of his Catholic majefty, that he will be pleafed to give orders to his governor, and all other officers employed in his fervice in the faid colony, and in the city of New Orleans, that the ecclefiaftics and religious houfes which have the care of the parishes and of the miffions, may continue to exercise their functions, and enjoy the rights, privileges and immunities, granted by their feveral charters of establishment; that the ordinary judges do continue, together with the fuperior council, to adminifter justice according to the laws, forms, and ufages of the colonies; that the inhabitants be preferved and maintained in their poffeffions; that they be confirmed in the poffeffion of their eftates, according to the grants which have been made by the governors and directors of the colony, and that all the grants be holden and taken as confirmed by his Catholic majefty, even though not as yet confirmed by me.

Hoping, above all, that his Catholic majefty will be pleased to beftow on his new colony of Louifiana the fame marks of protection

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and good will, which they enjoy ed while under my dominion, and of which the misfortunes of war alone have prevented their experiencing greater effects, I command you to caufe my prefent let ter to be recorded in the fuperior Council of New Orleans, to the end that the feveral eftates of the colony may be informed of its con tents, and may have recourse there to when neceffary. And the prefent being for no other purpofes, I pray God, monf. d'Abbadie, to have you in his holy keeping.

with that monarch, falls upon her alone; her imperial and royal majefty has refolved, for the welfare of her faithful fubjects, to ease herself from a part of the heavy burthen, by nominating equally to the fame co-regency, her auguft and moft dear eldeft fon, the prefent emperor of the Romans, and her future heir and fucceffor, as well in virtue of his natural right, as in confequence of the pragmatic fanction.The love of this auguft prince for his auguft mother and the people, as well as the eminent qualities he inherits from his auguft father of moft glorious memory, juftify and confirm the confidence with which her majefty the empress queen has nominated him co-regent, without deviating however in any thing from the indivifible fovereignty the intends to preserve over all her states, and without being of the leaft prejudice to it, conformably to the faid pragmatic fanction. And his majefty, the emperor, being thus entrusted with the co-regency, has notified it to all the departments of the court, and the other departments and tribunals, fuperior and inferior, of the different ftates of his imperial and royal Apoftolic majefty.

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Memoirs of his late royal highness William Auguftus duke of Cumberland.

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HE actions of the great are viewed through fo falfe a medium, that they feldom receive their juft proportion either of applaufe or cenfure, till a long fucceffion of events has removed the influence of prejudice. A bufy train of fawning flatterers, or envious rivals, like the different extremes of a telescope, always exhibit them either dwarfs or giants; and, when events happen in which the interefts of nations are involved, the public are too eager about the confequences, impartially to examine the fprings, in forming their fentiments of the perfons concerned in effecting them; but, juft as the complexion of the time directs, the wildfire of applaufe or reproach is let off at the authors, in an undiftinguishing blaze. In what light pofterity will view the actions of the late duke of Cumberland, requires no depth of penetration to afcertain; his fervices àre too ftrongly felt by Englishmen, for the remembrance of them to die away from their minds, and be bu ried with his ashes.

His royal highnefs William Auguftus, third fon of our late moft gracious fovereign king George II, was born the 15th of April 1721, VAL. VIII.

and chriftened on the 2d of May following at Leicefter-house, the king and queen of Pruffia, with the duke of York, brother of king George I. being fponfors by their reprefentatives.

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On the first inftitution of the moft honourable order of knights of the bath, by king George I. his royal highnefs was, on the 17th of June 1725, inftalled the first knight-companion of the bath; and the year after was, by letters patent, bearing date the July 1726, 12 George I. created baron of the isle of Alderney, vifcount of Trematon, in the county of Cornwall, earl of Kennington, in the county of Surry, marquis of Berkhamstead, in the county of Hertford, and duke of the county of Cumberland. On the of May 1730, his royal highnefs was elected a knight of the most noble order of the garter, and inftalled at Windfor, on the 18th of June following, with great folemnity.

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fions. He closely applied himself to the military fervice, and affiduoufly attended the feveral reviews of the forces with his majesty, under whom, confidering the experience of the mafter, the eagernefs of the scholar, and the talents of both, it is no way furprifing, that his royal highnefs made the most rapid progrefs. On the 24th of June 1739, his majefty gave the royal affent to an act to enable him to fettle an annuity of 15,000l. on his royal highness, and the heirs of his body; and, on the 25th of April 1740, appointed his royal highness colonel of the fecond regiment of foot guards, in the room of Richard earl of Scarborough, deceased.

The expediency of fuch an ap pointment was foon perceived, by the vaft improvements, in point of difcipline, made by his royal high nefs. And the frict obfervation of duty and exercife required by him from that hitherto, too much neglected corps, was foon follow ed by a moft remarkable refor mation of morals; fo that his royal highnefs, in his progreffion to the command of the first regiment of foot-guards, rendered the whole of that body an ornament and a fafeguard, instead of being, what they had too often been before, a nuifance and a terror to the places of royal refidence.,

On the ceremony of the efpou fals between the princefs Mary and the prefent landgrave of HeffeCaffel, on the 8th of May following, his royal highness acted as proxy for his moft ferene highnefs. Soon after, the Spaniards having broken the peace between the two kingdoms, and a fleet under fir John Norris being ordered to cruife

On the 20th of February 174142, his royal highness was appointed colone! of the first regiment of foot-guards, then vacant by the deceafe of Sir Charles Wills; and, on the 17th of May following, was, by his majey's command, introduced into the privy council, by the earl of Harrington, lord prefident, where he took his place at the upper end of the board, on his majesty's left hand.

On the 26th of Febr. 1742:3 his royal highnefs was conftituted major-general of his majesty's forces. The king being upon a vifit the fame year to his German dominions, and having had ad vice there that the French army, commanded by marfhal de Noailles, was in motion to attack the forces under the earl of Stair, his majefty fet out from Hanover, on the 16th, of June, with his royal highness, to join his army. Cer tain intelligence being foon after received, that the marshal intend ed to prevent the junction of the Hanoverian and Hefian troops with the main body of our army, the king fent orders to thefe corps to halt at Hanau, and determined to march the main body to them, This brought on the battle of Dettingen on the 27th, in which his royal highnefs, commanding with great bravery as major-ge neral, at the head of the firft line of foot, received a mufket

ball,