The LONDON MAGAZINE:

Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer.

For JANUARY,

To be Continued. (Price Six-Pence each Moatn.)

Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than ary Monthly Book of the fame Price.)

With a new and correct Map of WESTMORELAND, and the HEADS of Sir FRANCIS BACON and Archbishop TILLOTSON, both beautifully engraved by eminent Hands. MULTUM IN PARVO.

LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, jun. at the Rofe in Pater-Notter-Row. Of whom may be had, compleat Sets from the Beginning to this Time, neatly Bound, or Stitch'd, or any fingle Month to compleat Sets.

CONTENT

Obfervations on the time for keeping Objections to a folution of a mathemati

The Propofal for making an effectual Provifion for the Poor: By Henry Fielding Efq; fall be confidered in our next. Our Poetical and other Correfpendents are defired to fend their Pieces as early in the Month as poffible, in order to their being inferted in Time.

In January was Publifhed,

N APPENDIX to the LONDON MAGAZINE for 1752, with A a Beautiful FRONTISPIECE, a General TITLE curiously engraved, Compleat INDEXES, and feveral other Things, neceflary to be bound up with the

THE

LONDON MAGAZINE.

JANUARY, 1753.

language then ufed upon fuch occafions; Can envoy, but thou haft brought me a

D

4

A remarkable SPEECH of Queen ELIZABETH. Jan.

legation of his majesty the king of Pruffia, is obliged to remind your excellency of the preffing follicitations employed by himfelf and predeceffor, at feveral times, for obtaining from the equity, and thro the juftice of the miniftry of this court, the fatisfaction which the Pruffian merchants have demanded, of being indemnied for the violences and depredations they have fuftained from fome of the English privateers, during the laft war. Your excellency will remember, that thefe merchants had fome their fhips taken from them, fome their effects forced away, others had them detained; and altho' it was evidently made appear, that B none of them dealt in contraband trade, they have not hitherto been able to obtain any redrefs, neither from the English tribunals to whom they applied, nor from the government, before which they laid their complaints: And that, by a fingularly ftrange contradiction, when even thofe tribunals found no fpecious pretext for confifcating their fhips and effects, and confequently difcovered the injustice of the prize, they nevertheless did not fail to condemn the proprietors in cofts, to the behoof of the privateers, and leviable upon the capture.

proper among fovereigus, and which his
ancestors have always obferved towards
os, and his fucceffors from henceforth
As to what relates to
probably will.
thyfelf, thou feemeft to have read many
books, but never to have looked into the
book of princes, nor to understand what
is decent among fovereigns. But fince A
thou talkeft of the law of nature and
nations, know, that when war breaketh
out between two kings, they are, each
of them, warranted by the law of na-
ture and nations, to intercept all supplies
brought to the other, let them come from
whence they will, and to take care that no
fuch fupplies may be made ufe of against
themielves. Know this to be the law of
nature and of nations. Where again thou
talkeft of the houfe of Auftria, which
thou now buildeft fo much on, thou art
not ignorant, that there was not wanting
of that houfe, one who defigned to in-
tercept from thy king the kingdom of
Poland. As to the reft, being nume-
rous and fuch as must be particularly
confidered, they are not proper for this
time of place: The refolutions of the
commiffioners appointed for this purpose
fhall be communicated to thee. In the
mean time fare thee well, and be quiet.

Thus did that great princefs answer a powerful king, who only talked in a manner which the thought infolent, and D it is remarkable, that this fpirited anfwer was made by her when she was old; when the was involved in a war with Spain, then the most potent monarchy in Europe; when he had been deserted by her ally, Henry IV. of France, who had made a feparate peace with Spain; and when there was a dangerous rebellion in Ireland, headed by the famous Ter-Owen, and fupported by Spain.

The laws of equity ought incontestably to be the fame for all nations; and an Englishman ought to expect the finding a fanctuary at Berlin, in the juftice of its tribunais, against the violence of their fubjects, the fame as a Pruffian ought to find it at London, against any illegal procedure of theirs. It is upon this principle, that good faith and mutual commerce ftand established between nation and nation: It is alfo upon this very E principle, that the merchants of Europe traffick with their neighbours, and that the English nation carries on fo advanAll countries look tageous a commerce.

And speed, who gives us this anecdote, tells us, that having ended her oration, the lion like rifing. daunted the malapert orator no lefs with her fately port and majeftick departure, than with the tartnefs of her princely checks: And turning to the train of her attendants, faid, F "God's death, my lords, I have been forced this day to four up my old Latin that hath long lain rufty.'

In our Magazine for laft Year, p. 603, rue gave the Subftance of what the King of Proffa calls an Expofition of his Motives for detaining Part of the Silefia Lean, by Way of Compenfation for the Da mage done to his Subjects in the last War by our Privateers. And now we fall give Copy of the Memorial prefented by Lis Miafter bere upon that Subject, as follows, viz. T is by order of the king his mafter, that the undersigned fecretary to the

I

a

G

on thefe ties of equity as facred and inviolable, and they respect them at home, that they may receive the benefit of them abroad, whenever the neceffity comes to exift of their having recourfe to them.

His majefty believed, that, with a nation fo full of noble fentiments, fo gene1ous as the Englith, it would be no ditculty to obtain for his fubjects the fatiffaction that was due to them; and your excellency will remember, that, in cafe of a refufal, the intimation was not omitted, that his majesty, the king of Pruffia, would find himfelf obliged (tho' with regret) to feize the capital funds for which the dutchy of Silefia flood mortgaged to the English, especially as his majefty had no other means of indennifying his fubjects,

The

• The archduke Maximilian of Aufiria, braiber to the emperor Riedolph 11. bad diffited

the crown with Sigifmund,

1753.

MEMORIAL of the Pruffian MINISTER.

The intentions of the king my mafter are pure: His majefty was determined to fulfil, with all integrity, the engagements he has contracted with the English nation, and acquit the debts incumbent on him; but he is determined at the fame time to make good to his fubjects the protection which he owes them.

That his majesty might precipitate nothing in an affair of this nature, and in order to afford the English government tie enough for reflection, his majesty continued difcharging the Silefia loan until payment of the laft term; but when his majefty faw that neither the equity of his demands, that neither time, reafons, nor repeated importunities, produced any effect, in favour of the Pruffian merchants, the king thought himself obliged to have recourfe to the laft measure that remained in his power, that of deducting from the money due to the English the fum which his fubjects demanded for their indemnification.

A

5

jects, upon that of each merchant feparately; whence it refults, that of 239,850 crowns, which thofe merchants reckoned due to them, the commiffion has adjudged to them no more than 159,486 crowns, 20 gr. principal, and 33,283 crowns intereft, at the rate of 6 per cent.

Tho' his majesty has all the reason to be perfuaded, that the faid commiflion has proceeded according to the forms of the most impartial juftice, his majesty has, nevertheless, ordered the underfigner to declare, in the prefent memorial, that his majesty is difpofed to have any contefted facts examined afresh by the faid commiffion, if any officers, or B English privateers, who fhall believe themfelves wronged thereby, think proper to interfere therein, and to get the judgment altered, in cafe the allegations of the party, fo complaining, fhould be found valid.

The fame law that obliges us to the fair C dealing of paying our debts, authorizes us to exact the fame measure of justice from our debtors. What a fingularly ftrange fort of law would that be, that should regulate all in favour of one fide, and nothing in favour of the other? In this affair, however, the point in agitation is not even what is owing from the English to the Pruffians, but what is forcibly with-held from them. If it is but just to pay one's debts, it is yet more fo to repair the damages one has occafioned by one's own fault, and with premeditated defign.

The king fixes, for the exhibition of thefe allegations, the term of three months, reckoning from the day of this declaration. As the lift of the fever al captures annexed to this memorial contains the names of thofe who made them, his majefty refers it to the good pleasure of the British government, in what manner it shall be proper to inform the parties of the judgment pronounced, that they may enter their complaint against it acD cording to law. If, nevertheless, the faid term lapfes without any one's interpofing in his own vindication, his majesty will abide by the decree of his council, and in purfuance thereof, will order the deduction of the fum adjudged to his fubjects, including the intereft thereon at 6 per cent. until the roth of July of the current year; which faid deduction, so ordered from the money due to the English, amounts to 194,725 Brandenburg crowns, 4 gr. and 5 deniers, and is to be applied to the indemnification of the Pruffian merchants. His majesty at the fame time declares, that he is ready to order a remittance to be made to the commiffioners of the Silefia loan, of the refidue of what is owing upon that claim, both on account of the capital, and of the intereft growing thereon, at the rate of 7 per cent. to the tenth of July of this prefent year. Always provided, that the faid commiffioners fhall produce an authentick release for the faid principal and interest.

After reafons fo ftrong, after having, in vain, demanded reparation from those who alone could make it, is there any colour whatever for pretending, that the E king fhould give up his own subjects? And could he do it, even if he would? He owes the laft term to the English; he ftops it, and, after having acquainted the British government upon all occafions, of the measures his majesty could not but indifpenfably take, he appointed a commiffion to judge, with impartiality, and with a rigid exactnefs, the pretenfions of the Pruffian merchants. At the head of this commiffion too his majefty placed a man, whom to name, fuffices to fanctify the whole procedure. The then high chancellor (Cocceii) three minifters of ftate, and feveral counfellors of juftice, have examined the claims of the merchants, and liquidated their juft amount.

This commiffion having terminated this G affair, the under-figner has the honour to prefent, enclosed herewith, to your execilency, copies of the decrees given upon the different claims of the Pruffian fab.

In cafe that, againft all expectation, they fhall in England refufe to come into

this fo equitable a regulation, I am to declare to your excellency, that the king will order the faid fum to be judicially delivered to his chamber of juftice in Berlin, there to remain in depofite, til it fhall

pleafe