the King, who, fince the Queen's Death, has, in a very gracious Manner, been pleas'd to honour me with feyeral Marks of his Royal Favour. 'Tis with the greatest Satisfaction, that I fee the good Effects which the Union between the King, his Kingdoms, and this Republick, will have through all Europe; and as I have always done the utmost in my Power to preferve this Union, fince I have had the Honour to be employ'd as Embaffador to your High Might ineffes, fo I fhall continue to apply all my Endeavours to that End, as long as I fhall remain with you in that Quality, and even afterwards, fhall never forget the perfonal Marks of Friendship and Efteem, which I have receiv'd from the principal and most valu'd Members of this Repub lick. Hague, Aug. 30, N. S. 1714. STRAFFORD. Some Days before, the Refident of Hanover at the Hague, deliver'd the following Letter from the King to the States-General, High and Mighty Lords, moft dear Friends and Allies, HE Letter of the 15th Inftant, which your High Mightiefies have written to us, as our good Friends and Neighbours, has been deliver'd to us by an Exprefs. As nothing more agreeable could happen to us upon our Acceffion to the Throne, than to receive from your High Mightineffes fuch obliging Affurances of your good Intentions for us, and the publick Good, fo nothing is wanting in our Acknowledgment in that Refpect, and in the high Efteem we have for your High Mightineffes and your Friendship. Your High Might ineffes are to be entirely perfwaded, that feeing it has pleas'd God to call us to the Throne of Great Britain, we shall make it one of our most serious Applications, to embrace all Opportunities to acknowledge, by all poffible Means, what you have done for us on this Occafion; to contribute to the Strengthening and Increase of your Profperity and Security, and that of your Republick; to live with you in an indiffoluble Union; to concur with a Concert of Zeal and Forces to the Prefervation of the Proteftant Religion, and the Liberty of Europe; and to fupport and fecond the laudable Intentions of your High Mightineffes. Upon our Arrival in Holland, where, with the Affistance of God, we intend to be in a few. Days, we shall have the Satisfaction Satisfaction in a more ample Manner to confirm all this to your High Might ineffes by Word of Mouth. We thank you in a particular Manner for your obliging Invitation, and are much oblig'd to you for the fame. We remain, High and Mighty Lords, your affectionate for ever, &c. Hanover, Aug. 21, Sign'd, GEORGE LOUIS, R Before the Receipt of this Letter, the States General had appointed Meffieurs Van Welderen, Noordwyck, Taats van Amerongen, and Burmania, to receive his Britannick Majesty on the Frontier of their Territories; and fome Days after, the States of Holland nam'd Deputies of their own to receive his Majesty at his Entrance into that Province, and to conduct him to the Hague. On the other Hand, their High Might ineffes caus'd eight Men of War to be equipp'd with all poffible Expedition, in order to join the British Squadron appointed to convoy the King over to England. The Court of France, tho' ftunn'd by the unforeseen Accident of the Queen of Great Britain's fudden Death, yet, with great Prudence, follow'd the best Counsel, which, in the prefent Condition of their Affairs, they could take; and that was, readily to acknowledge King George. Accordingly, befides the Declarations mention'd above, Monfieur de Chateauneuf, their Embaffador at the Hague, made the Earl of Strafford the ufual Complements of Condolance upon the Death of the late Queen, and at the fame Time thofe of Congratulation upon King George's Acceflion to the Throne. Meanwhile the Pretender, who having, upon the Peace of Utrecht, been forc'd to depart the Dominions of France, was retir'd to Bar-le-duc in Lorrain, receiv'd there, on the 4th of August, the News that the Queen was either dead, or paft Recovery; upon which he inftantly took Poft for Verfailles; but the King of France having Notice of his Arrival, immediately fent the Marquefs de Torcy to him with this unwelcome Meffage, viz. That his Moft 'Chriftian Majefty was furpriz'd at his being return'd into his Dominions, knowing the Engagements he was under, in Refpect to the Succeffion of the Crown of Great Britain in the Houfe of Hanover; and therefore 4 defir'd him to quit his Territories," Upon which the Chevalier Chevalier de St. George (for that was the Title the Pretender had taken upon his Departure from France) having made a Vifit to the Queen Dowager of England at the Monaftery of Chaliot, return'd to Bar-le-due, and foon afterwards went to Luneville, where the Court of Lorrain then refided, and after that to Plombieres. About this Time, Mr. Laws, the British Minifter at Bruffels, having notify'd to the Council of State, to whom the Government of the Spanish Netherlands was then committed, the Death of the Queen of Great Britain, and the Acceffion of King George to the Crown, the faid Council, in a Body, went on the 12th of Auguft to Mr. Laws's Houfe, and made him a formal Complement of Congra tulation and Condoleance on this Occafion. The Council of Finances went likewife to his Houfe in a Body on the fame Account. We return now to England, where, on the 5th of August, the Lords of the Regency took into Confideration the Complaint of the Merchants, whofe Ships had been made Prize by the Swedes, and gave fome Directions thereupon. On the 6th their Excellencies confider'd farther of the Business that had a long Time been depending before the Privy Council, relating to the Election of a Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the City of Dublin, and determin'd it to be one of the ancient Privileges of that City to chufe their own Magiftrates. This Determination being immediately difpatch'd away to the Lords Juftices of Ireland, their Excellencies, on the 17th of August, fam. mon'd the nominal Lord Mayor of Dublin, and the Aldermen in Town, and propos'd to them to proceed forthwith to the Election of a Mayor and Sheriffs for the remaining Part of the Year till Michaelmas next: But the Mayor declin'd proceeding to a Choice in Conjunction with the Aldermen; whereupon the Aldermen, after the nominal Lord Mayor had refus'd either to proceed to an immediate Choice, or to name a Time when he would go upon the Election, went into a Choice without him, which by a Majority fell upon Alderman Page, for Lord Mayor for the remaining Term, and on Mr. Sommervill, a Merchant of that City, for Sheriff, with Mr. Crowder, who was formerly elected by the Aldermen, and approv'd by the Government. The nominal Mayor thereupon withdrew himself, being privately countenanc'd in his refractory Behaviour by Sir Conftantine Phipps, by whofe Influence the Privy Council declin'd approving the Choice Choice of Alderman Page, and contented themselves with fending an Account of what had pafs'd to the Lords Juftices of Great Britain, who thereupon taking into Confideration the late, and former Behaviour of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in relation to the Choice of the Magiftrates of the City of Dublin, and other Matters, which had rais'd the general Odium of the well affected to the Hanoverian Succeffion against him; their Excellencies (notwithstanding what was alledg'd in his Favour by two or three Lords) refolv'd to remove both him and the Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland, from the Station of Lords Juftices there; and appointed his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, and the Earl of Kildare, to be two of the Lords Juftices of Ireland in their Room. But before the Refolution of the Lords Regents of Great Britain reach'd Dublin, the Lords Juftices and Privy Council of Ireland, had drawn up a Representation, containing Reafons why they could not comply with the late Orders they had receiv'd from the Lords of the Regency, being in Substance, 1. Because the allowing the City of Dublin to chufe their Magiftrates, was derogatory from the Prerogative of the Crown. 2. Because the fame might prove dangerous to the Church as by Law establish'd. 3. Because they could not do it in Confcience. Thefe Reafons being tranfmitted to England, and laid before the Lords of the Regency, their Excellencies, upon mature Deliberation, refolv'd, That the fame were frivo lous, fcandalous, &c. againft which, however, two or three of the Lords Regents protefted: But the King had before entirely approv'd, by Letter, their Excellencies Conduct in that Affair, and return'd them his Thanks for it. On the 28th of August Mr. Murray arriv'd Express from Hanover, with feveral Orders from the King to the Regency and Council, particularly for the preparing a Pa tent, for creating the Prince Royal Prince of Wales; and for removing the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke from his Office of Secretary of State, which was done on the laft of Auguft with particular Marks of Difpleafure; three of the Lords of the Regency, viz. the Dukes of Shrewsbury and Somerset, and the Lord Cowper taking the Seals from him, and locking and fealing up the Doors of his Office in the Cockpit. Lee us now attend what pafs'd at the Court of the King in Germany, and first take Notice of fome remarkable Paffages at Hanover, before the News of the Queen's Death reach'd that Court. On July the 16th, the Earl of Clarendon, Envoy Extraordinary from her late Majesty, arriv'd at Hanover; but it was the 4th of August, before he was conducted in one of the King's Coaches to Herenhaufen, where he had an Audience of the King, of their Royal Highneffes the Prince and Princef, and of Duke Erneft; and, in the Afternoon, complemented the young Prince and Princeffes. One of the apparent Reasons of his Audience being put off fo many Days, was the Arrival of the King of Pruffia, who on the 19th of July came Incognito to Herenhaufen, under Pretence of condoling the Death of the late Princefs Sophia; but, in reality, to concert Measures for fecuring the Succeffion of the Crown of Great Britain, to his prefent Majefty; and who having ftaid there three Nights, return'd to Berlin on the 3d of Auguft. On the 5th of the fame Month, at Seven a-Clock in the Morning, Mr. Craggs arriv'd at Hanover, and rode directly to Herenhaufen, with the Letter the Privy Council of Great Britain wrote the Day before the Queen dy'd to his Majefty. The fame Night three other Expresses arriv'd at Hanover, two to that Court, and one to the Earl of Clarendon, with the News of the Queen's Death, which his Excellency communicated to the King at two a-Clock in the Morning; and which was confirm'd a few Hours after, by the Arrival of the Baron de Bothmar's Secretary, with the farther Account of his Majefty's being proclaim'd King of Great Britain in London and Westminster, without the leaft Disturbance, or any fhew of Oppofition, 2. On the 8th of Auguft his Majefty caus'd Te Deum to be fung in all the Churches of his Electorate, to return the Almighty folemn Thanks, for having vouchfafed to advance him to the British Throne; and Prayers to be made for the Profperity of his Reign. One of the King's first Carès, upon the Receipt of the News of Queen Anne's Death, and of his being proclaim'd, was to communicate the fame to the King of Pruffia; for which Purpose the Baron de Rhede, first Chamberlain to his Majefty, was immediately difpatch'd away to Berlin. He was withal to acquaint his Pruffian Majefty, that the King of Great Britain was defirous to have an Interview with him, before his Departure for Holland: But before |