Tranflation of the Memorial relative to Spain, prefented by M. de Buffy to the Court of London.

Thefe are, 1. The reftitution of fome prizes made, during the prefent war, un every thing which may happen to interder the Spanish flag.

2, Liberty to the Spanish nation of fin nations; and the king entreats his Briing on the bank of Newfoundland.

M. Bully's Note to Mr. Pitt.

SINCE the memorial of the propofitions parate peace with England, but upon two

king of Great Britain, neither in his capacity of king or elector, shall afford any fuccour, either in troops, or of any kind whatever, to the king of Pruffia; and that his Britannic majefty will undertake that the Hanoverian, Heffian, Brunfwickian, and the other auxiliaries in alliance with Hanover, fhall not join the forces of the king of Pruffia, in like.

manner as France fhall engage on her part, not to yield fuccour of any kind to the empress queen, nor her allies.

Both the conditions appear fo natural and equitable in themfelves, that his majefty could not do otherwife than ac quiesce in them; and he hopes that the king of Great Britain will be ready to adopt them.

Mr. Pitt's Letter, in Answer to the foregoing, 24th July 1761.

SIR,

Having explained myfelf, in our con

ference yesterday, with refpect to certain engagements of France with Spain, relative to the difputes of the latter crown with Great-Britain, of which your court never informed us, but at the very instant of making, as fhe has done, her first propofitions for the feparate peace of the two crowns, and as you have defired, for the fake of greater punctuality, to take a note of what paffed between us upon fo weighty a fubject, I here repeat, Sir, by his majesty's order, the fame declaration, word for word, which I made to you yesterday, and again anticipate you with refpect to the most fincere fentiments of friendship, and real regard on the part of his majesty towards the Catholic king, in every particular confiftent with reason and juftice. It is my duty to declare farther to you in plain terms, in the name of his majesty, That he will not fuffer the difputes with Spain to be blend-" ed, in any manner whatever, in the nego

ciation of peace between the two crowns ; to which I muft add, That it will be confidered as an affront to his majesty's dignity, and as a thing incompatible with the fincerity of the negotiation, to make farther mention of fuch a circumftance.

Moreover, it is expected that France will not, at any time, prefume a right of intermeddling in fuch difputes between Great Britain and Spain.

These confiderations, so just and indifpenfible, have determined his majesty to order me to return you the memorial which occafions this, as wholly inadmiffible.

I likewife return you, Sir, as totally inadmiffible, the memorial relative to the king of Pruffia, as implying an attempt upon the honour of Great-Britain, and the fidelity with which his majesty will always fulfil his engagements with his allies. I have the honour to be, &c. Signed,

PITT.

Life and Adventures of Sir Lanncelot Greaves. Briti jea, who, tho' every other motive should be overlooked, ought to intereft himself in my cafe as a common concern, and concur with all your power towards the punishment of those who dare commit fuch outrages against the liberty of your country."

The knight's eyes lightning-with indignation," I am now convinced, (cried he) that you are accomplice in the villainy which has been prac tifed upon me, that you are a for

every tenderness of nature, and every Y virtue of humanity. That these qualities are centered in you, doctor, would willingly believe but it will be fufficient for my purpose, that you are possessed of common Integrity. To whofe concern. I am indebted for your visits, you best know; but if you understand the The doctor feemed to be a little art of medicine, you must be fenfible difconcerted; but after fome recol by this time, that with respect to lection, refumed his air of fufficiency me your preferiptions are altogether and importance, and affured our adunneceflary-come, Sir, you cannot venturer he would do him all the you don't believe that my intel- fervice in his power; but, in the lecis are difordered. Yet, granting mean time, advised him to take the me to be really under the influence potion he had prescribed. no of that deplorable malady, no perfon has a right to treat me as a lupatie, or to lure out a commiflion, but my nearest kindred. That you may not plead ignorance of my name and family, you shall under-did wretch,without principle or feeltand that I am Sire Launcelot Graves, of the county of York, baToner; and that any neareft relation is SirReginald Meadows, of Chefire, the eldeft fon of my mother's Sifter that gentleman, I am fure, had no concern in feducing me by false pretences under the clouds of night into the fields, where I was surprised, overpowered, and kidnapped by armed rutians. Had he really believed he infane, he would have proceeded according to the dictates of honour, humanity, and the laws of his country Situated asolamy I have a right, by making application to the lord chancellor, to be tried by a jury of homeit men-But of that: Light, I cannot avail myself, while I remain at the mercy of a brutal, milcreant, in wholethouse 1 am indofed, unless you contribute your affittance. Your alhitance, therefore, I demand, as you are a gentleman, a christian and a fellow-fub

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ing, a difgrace to the faculty and a reproach to human nature yes, firrab, you are the most perfidious of all affaffins you are the hireling minifter of the worst of all villains, who from motives even bafer than malice, envy, and revenge, robothe innocent of all the comforts of life, brand them with the imputation of madness, the most cruel fpecies of flander, and wantonly protract their mifery, by leaving them in the melt fhocking confinement, a prey to reflections infinitely more bitter than death-but I will be calm do me juftice at your peril. I demand the protection of the legislature if I am refused,-remember, a day of reckoning will come--you and the reft of the mifcreants who have combined againit me, must, in order to cloak your treachery, have recourse to murder; an expedient which I believe you very capable of embrac ing, or a man of my rank and cha

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the advertisement should produce an effect upon another perfon, who was no other than the hackney coachman who drove our hero to the place of his imprisonment. This fellow had been enjoined fecrecy, and indeed bribed to hold his tongue, by a confiderable gratification, which, it was fuppofed, would have been effectual, as the man was a master. coachman in good-eirenmstances, and well known to the keeper of the mad-house, by whom he had been employed on former occafions of the fame nature. Perhaps his fidelity to his employer, reinforced by the hope of many future jobbs of that kind, might have been proof against the offer of fifty pounds; but double that fum was a temptation he could not refift. He no fooner read the intimation in the Daily Advertiser, over his morning's pot at an alehoufe, than he entered into confultation with his own

racter cannot be much longer concealed Tremble, caitif, at the thoughts of my release in the mean time, begone, left my juft refentment impel me to dash out your brains upon that marble-away-" The honeft doctor was not fo firmly perfuaded of his patient's lunacy as to reject his advice, which he made what hafte he could to follow, when an unexpected accident intervened. That this may be properly introduced, we must return to the knight's brace of trufty friends, captain Crowe and lawyer Clarke, whom we left in forrowful deliberation upon the fate of their patron. Clarke's genius being rather more fruitful in refources, than that of the feaman, he suggested an advertisement, which was was accordingly inferted in the daily papers; import ing, that, "whereas a gentleman of confiderable rank and fortune had fuddenly disappeared on fucha night from his houfe, near Golden-thoughts, and having no reafon to square, in consequence of a letter delivered to him by a porter; and there is great reason to believe fome violence hath been offered to his life: any perfon capable of giving fuch information as may tend to clear up this dark transaction, shall, by applying to Mr. Thomas Clarke, attorney, at his lodgings in Upperance of his uncle depofited the moBrook-street, receive proper fecurity for the reward of one hundred guineas, to be paid to him upon his making the discovery required.”

The porter who delivered the letter appeared accordingly; but could give no other information, except that it was put into his hand with a fhilling, by a man muffled up in a great coat, who stopped him for the purpose, in his paffing through Queen-freet. It was neceffary that

doubt that this was the very fare he had conveyed, he refolved to earn the reward, and abstain from all fuch adventures in time coming. He had the precaution, however, to take an attorney along with him to Mr. Clarke, who entered into a con"ditional bond; and, with the affist

ney, to be forthcoming when the conditions should be fulfilled. Thefe previous measures being taken, the coachman declared what he knew, and discovered the house in which Sir Launcelot had been immured. He moreover accompanied our two adherents to a judge's chamber, where he made oath to the truth of his information; and a warrant was immediately granted to fearch the houfe of Bernard Shackle, and fet

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at liberty Sir. Launcelot Greaves, in the world bo the bold of any man if there found.io slowho would have thewn Sir Launcelot safe at his moorings. The knight, having made a proper return to this facere manifestation of good will, defired him to difmils that worthless fellows, meaning the doctor, who, finding himself released, withdrew with fome precipitation. p

Then our adventurer, attended by his friends, walked with a deliberate

found open, and getting into one of the coaches, was entertained by the way to his own house with adetail of every measure, which had been purfued for his releafe. In his own parlour he found Mrs. Dol

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og tid Fortified with this authority, they, engaged a conftable, with a formidable poffe, and embarking them in coaches, repaired, with all poflible expedition, to the houfe of Mr Shackle, who did not think proper to difpute their claim, but admit ted them, tho' not without betray. ing evident fymptoms of confter nation. One of the fervants direct-pace to the outward gate, which he ing them, by his master's order, to Sir Launcelot's apartment, they hur gied dup fairs in a body, occafioning fuch a noile as did not fail to alarm the physician, who had juft opened the door to retire, when he perceive ed their irruption. Capt. Crowealy Cowslip, who had been waiting conjecturing, he was guilty from with great fear and impatience for the confufion that appeared in his the flee of Mr. Clarke's adventure. Countenance, made no fcruple of She now fell upon her knees, and feizing him by the collar, as heen- bathed the knight's hand with tears deavoured to retreat; while the ten of joy; while the face of this yidang der-hearted Tom Clarke, running woman, recalling the idea of her miup to the knight with his eyes brim-rels, roused his hearttoftrong einofull of joy and affection, forgot tion, and stimulated his mind to the all the forms of diftant respect, and immediate achievement he had althrowing his arms around his neck, ready planned Ash for Crabshaw, Blubbered in his bosom, booghe was not the laft to fignify his faகாரிபொ hero did not receive this tisfaction at his master return, Afproof of his attachment unmoved. Heter having killed the hem of his garftrained him in his embrace, honoured him with the title of his de, liverer, and afked him by what miracle he had discovered the place of his confinement. The lawyer be gan to unfold the various. Ateps he had taken, with equal minutenefs and felf.complacency, when Crowe dragging the doctor ftill by the collar, fhook his old friend by the hand, protefting he was never fo overjoyed fince he got clear of a Sallee Rover on the coaft of Barbary; and that two glaffes ago he would have started all the money he had

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ment, he repaired to the table, where he communicated these tidings to his friend Gilbert, whom he saddled and bridled ; the fame office he performed for Bronzomarte: then putting on his fquire-like attire and accoutrements, he mounted one, and led the other to the knight's door, before which he paraded, uttering from time to time repeated fhouts, to the no small entertainment of the populace, until the received orders to house his companions. Thus commanded, he led them back to their ftalls, refumed his li

very,