hed his office, in order
to act by virtue of powers from one John Faidy, to whom the French king
granted the direction, receipt, and administration of all the duties
and revenues of the electorate. This director was, by a decree of
the council of state, empowered to receive the reveiraes, not only of
Hanover, but also of all other countries that should be subjected to
his most christian majesty in the course of the campaign; to remove the
receivers who had been employed in any part of the direction, receipt,
and administration of the duties and revenues of Hanover, and appoint
others in their room. The French king, by the same decree, ordained,
that all persons who had been intrusted under the preceding government,
with titles, papers, accounts, registers, or estimates, relating to the
administration of the revenues, should communicate them to John Faidy,
or his attorneys; that the magistrates of the towns, districts, and
commonalties, as well as those who directed the administration of
particular states and provinces, should deliver to the said John Faidy,
or his attorneys, the produce of six years of the duties and revenues
belonging to the said towns, districts, and provinces, reckoning
from the first of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and
fifty-one, together with an authentic account of the sums they had
paid during that term to the preceding sovereign, and of the charges
necessarily incurred. It appears from the nature of this decree, which
was dated on the eighteenth day of October, that immediately after the
conventions of Closter-Seven and Bremenworden,* the court of Versailles
had determined to change the government and system of the electorate,
contrary to an express article of the capitulation granted to the city
of Hanover, when it surrendered on the ninth day of August; and that the
crown of France intended to take advantage of the cessation of arms,
in seizing places and provinces which were not yet subdued; for, by the
decree above-mentioned, the administration of John Faidy extended to the
countries which might hereafter be conquered.

* Six days after the convention was signed at Closter-Seven,
another act of accommodation was concluded at Bremenworden,
between the generals Sporcken and Villemur, relating to the
release of prisoners, and some other points omitted in the
convention.

With what regard to justice, then, could the French government charge
the electo