a contribution of an hundred and
sixty thousand crowns in Swedish Pomerania. The Mecklenburghers, who had
joined the Swedes with six thousand of their troops, now found cause to
repent of their forwardness, being left quite exposed to the resentment
of the victors, who chastised them with the most severe exactions.
The army of the Swedes, though they did not fight a battle, was, by
sickness, desertion, and other accidents, reduced to half the number it
consisted of when they took the field. The landgrave of Hesse-Cassel,
soon after his territories were invaded by the French, in consequence of
their advantage in the affair of Hastenbeck, had applied to the king of
Sweden, as one of the guarantees of the treaty of Westphalia, desiring
him to employ his good offices with the court of France, to obtain a
more favourable treatment for his dominions; but his Swedish majesty, by
the advice of the senate, thought proper to refuse complying with this
request, alleging, that as the crown of Sweden was one of the principal
guarantees of the treaty of Westphalia, it would be highly improper to
take such a step in favour of a prince who had not only broke the laws
and constitution of the empire, in refusing to furnish his contingent,
but had even assisted, with his troops, a power known to be its
declared enemy. The Aulic council too, seeing, or pretending to see, the
behaviour of the landgrave in the same light, issued a decree against
his serene highness towards the end of this year.

MEMORIAL PRESENTED TO THE DUTCH.

The court of Great Britain, justly displeased with the Dutch, on account
of the extreme facility with which they had granted the French a free
passage through Namur and Maestricht for their provisions, ammunition,
and artillery, in the beginning of this campaign, had very properly
remonstrated against that step, before it-was absolutely resolved on,
or at least declared to be so; but in vain; a pusillanimous answer being
all the satisfaction that was obtained. The tameness and indifference
with which the states-general has since seen Os-tend and Nieuport
put into the hands of the French, drew upon their high mightinesses a
further remonstrance, which was delivered to them on the twenty-eighth
of November of this year by colonel Yorke, his Britannic majesty's
plenipotentiary at the Hague, in the following terms, well calculated to
awaken in them a due sense of their own danger, as well as to evince the
injustic