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4J4 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758.

The court of France faw very well that fhe could not clai -- the xight of refufing the capiiuiution of the treaty of Clofter-feven, with- out giving the fame right to his Britannic majefty. In order, there- fore, to throw a falfe glofs upon the explanation of the treaty, it pretends 'That theKingof France,

  • out of his zeal for his allies and
  • the empire, approved of the con-
  • dudl of Marflial Richelieu ; and
  • to render the capitulation more
  • folid, his majefty propofed to add
  • to it fome explanations, to fix the
  • fenfe of it in fo clear a manner,
  • as to obviate every falfe interpre-
  • tation ; explanations which the
  • court of Copenhagen and Count
  • Lynar had found conformable to
  • the true fenfe of the capitulation.'

But this tale is abfolutely con- trary to the true ftate of things. The court of France declared, that it would not acknowledge the vali- dity of the convention, unlefs the

new terms which it intended to add were agreed to, and the auxiliary troops were difarmed. This cir- cumltance, which is moft clearly related in Count de Lynar's letter, which is known to the court of Co- penhagen, and which was the caufe that the guaranty of that court was not fought, is alfo mentioned in Marfhal Richelieu's own letter, an- nexed to the Parallel. His words are as follow: * His Danifh ma-

  • jedy having offered to guaranty
  • them (the articles of the coiiven-
  • lion) the king'my mailer thinks,
  • that before he figns his accept-
  • ance of them, it will be proper
  • to obviate fome obfcurities which
  • might occafion difficulties in the
  • execution, which has been fuf-

' pended reciprocally uponwordsof

  • honour, to make no alteration in
  • their fubftance, and always to ex-
  • ecute them, when both fides have
  • cometoanunderftandingrelating
  • to any doubts that may arife.'

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