to the Tenor of the Imperial Capitulation, by ging them, and taking away their Goods and ts; it is order'd thereupon, That all the faid ds and Effects pillag'd and taken away from the Conful, Merchants, or other of your Subjects, be re-deliver'd and reftor'd according to Law and ice, the Ships taken reftor'd to their Proprietors, fe that have been made Slaves, and others of your jects, fet at Liberty and reimburs'd the Damages y have fuftain'd, and the Conful reftor'd, as in Time , to his Employment, with Order to keep him m all Danger, or Apprehenfion of it; that no Fraction be made of the Imperial Capitulation, by like Attempts for the future: To which End it has en exprefsly order'd,under our Imperial Signature,to e Pafcia, Governors, Dey, Aga of the Janifaries, and ners Officers of Algiers, to render prompt Obedi ce thereunto. And this Letter of our Imperial Maty has been written, in the Hopes we have in Alighty God, that the Articles of the Capitulations anted in the Time of our Lord and Father, of gloous Memory, and of our glorious Ancestors, whofe ouls are in Repofe with the Almighty, fhall be mainin'd according to their Tenor, and in like Manner onour'd and respected for the Time to come on both ides, to the End that your Merchants, and others of our Subjects trading in our Dominions, under the Pro ection of our Imperial Majefty, going and returning n Peace and Quietnefs, may enjoy the Fruits of their Labours. And after all this thall be come to your Knowledge, we falute those who walk in the right Way. Given at Adrianople, &c.

The Sultan himself writ a circular Letter to the three Republicks of Algier, Tunis, and Tripoli, on the Subject of their renewing the Treaty of Peace with the States-General, which is on the Point of expiring. The Copy of this Letter was brought to the Hague in Auguft laft by the Secretary of Mr. Collier, their High-Mightineffes Embassador at the Porte, and is as follows.

E&c. are credibly inform'd, that you make Difficulty of prolonging the Peace which you have with the moft high and mighty Lords the States of Holland, whofe boundlefs Government

extends thro' fo many vaft and confiderable States, which being fo rich and formidable, have not their Equal either by Sea or Land. It is therefore that we,

c. exprefsly will and ordain, That you renew and confirm without Delay, with thofe moft high and mighty Lords, the Peace, in fuch a Manner as may be convenient to them, upon Pain, in Cafe of Failure, of our Indignation. And in cafe you thall refufe to follow our Example towards thofe mighty Lords, with whom we have concluded a perpetual Peace, we fhall be oblig'd to look upon you as an Enemy of our moft high Friends, who poffefs fuch vaft and diftant Dominions. For thefe Caufes we promife our felves, that you are difpos'd to preferve conjointly with us, the Friendship of those high Lords, &c.

In our former Regifters we took Notice of the Mifunderstanding between the Elector of Cologn and the States-General of the United Provinces, concerning the Demolition of the Fortifications of Bon, Huy, and the Citadel of Liege. The Emperor interpos'd to reconcile this Difference; and the Baron de Heems, his Imperial Majesty's Envoy at the Hague, having had many Conferences with the Deputies of their HighMightineffes, at length brought that Affair to an amicable Conclufion; the chief Articles of which were, 1. That his Electoral Highnefs fhould write a Letter to the States-General, to excufe the Affront offer'd them by the Ufage given to their Troops that were in Garrifon at Bon. 2. That the States fhould be oblig'd to withdraw their Garrifons from the Citadels of Huy and Liege; and that the Fortifications of thofe Places thould be demolilh'd. 3. That the Elector of Cologn, as Bifhop of Liege, thould renounce all Pretenfions to the Fort of St. Peter before Maeftricht, and that all the Fortifications of this laft Place fhould remain intire. In Confideration of which, the Elector,on his Part, thould not be oblig'd to demolith the Works of the City of Bon.

We will conclude the Affairs of this Country with a remarkable Piece of Justice done by the Czar of Mofcovy, in regard to Great Britain. The Cafe was as follows. A Ruffian Man of War being Convoy to fome Merchant Ships coming from Copenhagen, having met in the North Sea, a Scotch Ship of 150 Tuns, nam'd the Concord, coming from Gottemberg, and going

to

ngland, feiz'd the faid Veffel, and brought her ine Texel, on Pretence that the had double Bills of ng, one of which was for Count Gyllenborg, who, e Ruffian Captain pretended, had fent her from and laden with Corn, to Gortemberg, from whence was now returning with a Cargo of Iron. As, 1 as the British Minifter Mr. Whitworth was inn'd of this Affair by the Mafter of the Scotch fel, he prefented a Memorial to the States-General, ring them to cause the faid Ship to be releas'd. Ruffian Captain, on the other Hand, infifted that was good Prize, in regard that he went to carry n to Sweden without Permiffion of the Admiralty Great Britain, and only with the Paffport of on Gortz. To all which the Scotch Mafte reply'd,, at it was not true that he had double Bills of Laand as to the Paffport of Baron Gortz, he took, rom Count Gyllenborg when he came from England, fecure himself from being expos'd to the Swedish ivateers. The States General, fearing to give Ofce to either Party, referr'd Mr. Whitworth's MemoI to the States of the Province of Holland; but bere they had determin'd it, the Czar himself took ognizance of the Matter, and not only order'd e Ruffian Captain to release the Ship, but, by Way = Satisfaction, to convoy her fafe to the Coast of ngland.

It may perhaps be expected that we should fay fomeing of the Hoftilities begun by the King of Spain gainst the Emperor, by attacking the Ifland of Sarnia, but we being ftill in the Dark as to that Affair, urpofely omit it 'till we can speak of it with greater Certainty.

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GREAT BRITAIN.

NE of the most remarkable of this prefent. Year's domeftick Occurrences, which therefore we muft not wholly pass over in Silence, was what hap pen'd in Relation to the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Bangor, who having publish'd a fmall Treatife which he call'd, 4 Prefervative against the Principles and Practices of the Nonjurors, both in Church and State; and preach'd a Sermon before the King at the Royal Chapel at St. James's on the 31ft of March, intitled, The Nature of the Kingdom or Church of Chrift, the Lower House of Convocation took fo great Offence, and were fo highly fcandaliz'd, at fome of the Doctrines advanc'd by that Prelate in those two Difcourfes, that they unanimously appointed a Committee of fix of their Members, who were Dr. Mofs, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. Friend, Dr. Sprat, Dr. Cannon, and Dr. Bifs, to draw up a Reprefentation to be laid before the Archbishop and Bishops of the Province of Canterbury, against the faid Poftions and Doctrines; which the Committee having accordingly done, it was read in the Lower House on the roth of May, anded, nemine contradicente, to be receiv'd and enter'd in the Books of the faid Houfe? This Representation is as follows.

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