" From the time when the rebuilding of the city was finished, or the 40th of Artaxerxes, to the 13th year of our Lord, according to the true æra, when he came as a ruler to his temple, 62 weeks, or 434 years. Here the 77 weeks in the prophecy terminate From the 13th year of the Meffiah to the flaughter of the Jews by Geffius Florus, governor of Judea, and the fiege laid to Jerufalem by Co. ftius Gallus, in order to curb and quell the rebellion raised by them, after which the Jews enjoyed no quiet, till their city and government were utterly deftroyed, 8 weeks, or 5.6 years Thefe eight weeks, and the 62 immediately before, make up the 72 weeks in the beginning of the prophecy. From the flaughter of the Jews by Florus, "and the fiege of Jerufalem by Ceftius Gallus, to the finiling of the war, weck, or 7 years.In all 86 weeks, or 602 years, An authentic account of the reduction of Louifburg in June and July 1758. By a fpecta tor. ts. W. 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Parallel of the conduct of the Kings of France and England 674. Of the beginning of hoftilities 675. Of the treaties of Weftminster ib. and Verfailles 676. Of letters between the Kings of Pruffia and England 677. Endeavours ufed for inftigating the Proteflants against France 678. Of a neutrality propofed for Hanover 679. Motives for agreeing to the convention 680. Heads of it 681. Explications propofed by France 682. Of the difarming-propofal ib. That pretext removed 684. The Duke of Brunswic forcibly hindered to execute the convention 685. The reafons alledged by the Hanoverians for breaking the convention 686. The answers 687. Conclufion of the Parallel 689. Titles of vouchers 690. Letters between the Duke of Brunswic and Pr. Ferdinand 691. SMOLLET's characters of K. William 695. Q to the Marriages, Deaths, Preferments, &c to the Plates LETTER from Bp Keith to Marshal Keith, and CORRECTIONS and ADDITIONS. the ANSWER 692. Death and character of M. KEITH 693*. TITLE-PAGE, and General CONTENTS. the falfe imputations advanced against the King in feveral pieces of the King of England, Elector of Hanover: but whilft it was in the prefs, fome hopes appearing of a reconciliation, which would have haftened the return of the tranquillity of the empire, it was feared to multiply obftacles, by publishing truths, which could have no other ef fect than to irritate, as neceflarily affecting the reputation of the infractors of the treaty. But the appearances of an accommodation are now totally vanished; not only because the King of England, Elector of Hanover, and the King of Prudia, in the convention figned at Lon5 C don a Extract from the Parallel. re: don April 11, 1758 [206.], have en- try, and that of an abolished grievance if tered into a formal engagement to re- he would make a fubfifting grievance. double their efforts for continuing in: Germany that, unjust war which the pri vate views of their ambition have kin dled in that country; but likewife, be aufe their Britannic and Pruffian Majefties have, in the preamble of that convention, attacked the King perfonally, pretending that it is the King who has; invaded the empire, whilft nothing can be more manifeft, than that the prefent war, and all its confequent evils, are wholly their work. 1 This part of the work relates chiefly to the Landgrave of Heffe; let what follows Suffice from it. Whereas the Landgrave complains of the attempts of the French general for introducing into his country the fimultaneous or common exercife of the two religions; it is here with truth averred, that the only abuse of this kind in the Landgrave's dominions which has come to the King's. knowledge, is the order given by the Count de Vauban, major-general, to the magiftrates of the town of Marburg, to furnish materials for building a wooden Catholic chapel for the fick of the army; that, on his Majesty's being informed of it, he fent notice to the Marshal de Richelieu, that the Count de Vauban having therein acted against his intentions, and thofe of the Empress Queen, and against his quality of guarantee of the treaty of Weftphalia, and the declarations made by him to the whole empire, he fhould, with all expedition, lend orders to hinder the exe cution of that of the Count de Vauban; and that the Landgrave's minifter, in his letter of O&, 10. 1757, to M. de Packelbel, appointed to correfpond with him, fays, that "his Moft Serene High nefs bad, with great pleasure, under ftood by his accounts, that there had been no order from court for building a chapel at Marburg, and that it had put a ftop to the French commandant's procedure on that head." Hereby it is clearly feen, that the Landgrave has wrongfully imputed to France the defign of introducing the fimultaneous exercife of the two religions in his coun It is known to all the world, that th capitulations or military conventions betwixt generals of armies have ever been refpected by fovereigns, in all the heat of the most animated wars; and that to violate acts fo facred, is to break the very ties of humanity. If ever capitulation ought to have been fecured from fuch an attempt, it was, furely, that concluded at Clofter Seven last September, being fought by the Duke of Cumberland, general of the Hanoverians, as the only means for faving the treafure of the King his father, and for preferving his troopsy together with thofe of his allies, from total destruction); feconded by the met diation and the engagement of the g ranty of a power in alliance with the King, whom the Duke had employed only to procure to himself that confi dence, which, from the rejection of his former propofals, the found heshould not obtain without a foreign allistance generously granted by the Maral de Richelieu at the inftant he was ready to deftroy the Elector of Hanover's any and that of his allies, and corroborated by the word of honour of the French general, and by that of the Hanoverin general, to which the quality of fou to the King of England imparted an addi tional dignity. In this capitulation were concentred fo many fecurities, and of fuch weight, that it seemed above any violation, axit xm Yet, in contempt of fo many reper table circumftances, the Hanoveriang have, under frivolous pretences, cluded the execution of it; and as foon as they conceived it could be done with impu nity, they openly broke it. Nay, fut ther, they have engaged the ethan to follow their example, and hindered the Brunfwie troops from performing the capitulation, agreeably they were preparing to return home they have imprisoned their general, by force of arms compelled his troops to march with thofe of Hanover, and all thefe butrages were not fufficient, Hanoverians have detained the he itary Prince of Brunfwic, though eatedly claimed by the Duke his faer, and contrary to the orders he had t him to repair to Holland; and this ung prince they keep as an hostage in furing the concurrence of the Brunfastroops with their unjust and per ious designs,aut quiz, 5. kovoda i As it is chiefly from the King's al nce with the Emprefs-Queen, that e King of England, Elector of Ha ver, has fought to take advantage for rring up the states of Germany against eir Moft Chriftian and Imperial Majeies, the first thing must be, to defeat et falle impreffions intended by him to e made on the public. 111 It is manifeft, that on the first hostili esvind North America by the King of England against the French, the King ormed the defign of confining himself o his own defence against the English, norder, were it poflible, to preferve o Europe in general, and the empire in particular, the advantages of peace, of which he found himfelf deprived by the injuftice and ambition of his enemies. But very different were the thoughts of other powers. The King of Pruffia, dazzled, as he himself owns, by the King of England's glittering promiles, quitted the alliance of France; and fud denly came to light a particular treaty betwixt the courts of London and Berlin, containing the most dangerous views, and which, among other objects, impofed laws on the princes of Germa By, interdicting them the liberty of foreign fuccours, which is referved to them by the Germanic conftitutions, in cale of their being attacked. rations of war, at a time when he had no enemies to fight, it was easy to judge, that the real fcope of a claufe fo con trary to the Germanie conftitutions, was to hinder any oppofition coming from without Germany to the war which thofe two princes had determined to kindle within, if they should not find the court of Vienna favourable to the project of exciting a general war, in which France might be implicated. If the infertion of this claufe drew a fufpicion on their views, they were en-" tirely laid open by the omiffion of an other; that is, by their affectation of not inferting into the treaty of Wests minfter the neutrality of the Low Coun tries, in favour of the Emprefs-Queen, at the same time as that of Germany. The public foon faw into this artifice. The King of England having, to no purpofe, ufed all his endeavours with that princefs for drawing her into the fcheme of the general war which he was concerned and refolved to bring on the continent, their Britannic and Pruffian' Majefties contrived the expédient of leaving expofed the Low Countries, then very thin of troops, and by this bait to incline France to attack them. The drift of these two princes in the fuppofi tion of fuch an event, was to reap a double advantage from it; to alienate the Dutch from the neutrality, and to join the Emprefs-Queen to their meafures by the neceflity of defending herself. The good faith of the King and the Emprefs-Queen fruftrated this deceptive project: the King did not think it juft to fall on the Low Countries, because the English made war on him; the Emprefs held it unworthy of her to join in the defign of kindling a general war, tO ferve the exceffive ambition of England, at the expence of France, agamit whom she had no cause of complaint, and to the prejudice of the quiet and fafety of the empire. In thefe circumftances, the King and the Empress, abandoned at the fame time by their principal allies, could no longer remain under an uncertainty of their respective defigns. The Emprefs's) territories territories lay open towards France, »as likewife towards the King of Pruffia, and the King of England, Elector of Hanover: his Majefty, on his fide, might fear, that this critical conjuncture would at length oblige the Empress to yield to the folicitations and menaces of the King of England. The fimilarity of their Moft Chriftian and Imperial Majefties fituation, their zeal for the general tranquillity, the mutual fentiments of efteem with which they had long before inspired each othery made them open their eyes. They at length perceived, that the private ambition of princes continually inftigating one: a. gainst the other, was the main caufe of their differences, and of the wars which had fo long defolated Europe, and efpecially Germany and, in order to detroy the very root of the evil, their Majefties united together in a treaty of friendship, purely defenfive, and in a convention of neutrality for the Low Countries, and their refpective domi nions. The difference of the conduâ offe King from that of the Kings of Engla and Pruffia, need but be confidem, know the difference of their intenúm His Majefty bas omitted nothing to h der the American disturbances reaching the continent of Europe whilft their Britannic and Proffin jefties left no stone unturned for davi the war into the empire, and fubw its laws, his Majefty was intent on lag ing off the conflagration, and prefer thofe laws from utter destruction. It is with this motive, that, by m of the convention of neutrality the King has concluded, with the prefs-Queen for the Low Countrin of the declaration given him by the States General of the United Provi he has fecured peace in that pari ob rope, which had hitherto been maku posed to the flameof, war; which lai generally, if not always, commen it to Germany; and which by Britannic and Pruffian Majefties had ber left to the difcretion of France. Thus had the Kings of England and It is likewife with the fame motis, Pruffia the art of bringing about, by that the King and the Emprefi their conduct, what, for feveral centu- made known to all Europe, that ries paft, all the efforts of policy had in principal object of their unions vain been labouring at, and what, for maintenance of the laws and conti the tranquillity of the empire, the best- tion of Germany that in confequent inclined part of Germany had always thereof the two courts have taken fr defired. Thus their ambition and perfi- the basis of the treaty of Veriailles dy proved both the natural and neceflary peace of Weftphalia, which is the fu caufe of the union of the courts of barrier of the Germanic liberty; France and Vienna; there, and there that his Majefty, together with Swede, only, is it to be fought for. joint guarantee of this peace, has decir All the illufory fufpicions, all the i-red to all the empire, that he would 'maginary fears, which the Kings of Pruffia and England have endeavoured to infufe into the public againft the union of thofe two powers, as compre. hending the defign of injuring the rights of the princes of the empire, and of exalting the Roman Catholic religion on the ruin of the Proteftant, are mere chimeras, forged by the difappointment of not having been able to arm the courts of France and Vienna against each o. ther as formerly, and by ftrong im patience to remedy that difappointment, by ftirring up the Proteftant princes against thofe courts, under the mafk of religion. his utmost efforts for maintaining the rights of the ftates, and particularly the three religions established in Ge many. The ill fuccefs of the unjuff and sp lent enterprifes of the King of England against France, both in America Europe, having changed the bril expectations with which that prices minifters had flattered the Brith ar tion, into real loffes for the prefent, apprehenfions for the future, they e been forced to have recourfe to fidha pedients for allaying the refentment that nation, and especially for geting |