r of Hanover with the infraction of articles? or what respect
to good faith and humanity did the duke de Richelieu observe, in the
order issued from Zell, towards the end of the year, importing, that as
the treaty made with the country of Hanover had been rendered void by
the violation of the articles signed at Closter-Seven, all the effects
belonging to the officers, or others, employed in the Hanoverian army,
should be confiscated for the use of his most christian majesty?

The landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, being desirous of averting a like storm
from his dominions, not only promised to renounce all connexion with
the kings of Great Britain and Prussia, but even solicited the court of
France to receive him among the number of its dependents; for, on
the eighteenth day of October, the minister of the duke de Deuxponts,
delivered at Versailles, in the name of the landgrave, the plan of a
treaty founded on the following conditions: The landgrave, after having
expressed an ardent desire of attaching himself wholly to France,
proposed these articles--That he should enter into no engagement against
the king and his allies; and give no assistance, directly or indirectly,
to the enemies of his majesty and his allies: that he should never give
his vote, in the general or particular assemblies of the empire, against
his majesty's interest; but, on the contrary, employ his interest,
jointly with France, to quiet the troubles of the empire: that, for this
end, his troops, which had served in the Hanoverian army, should engage
in the service of France, on condition that they should not act in the
present war against his Britannic majesty: that, immediately after the
ratification of the treaty, his most christian majesty should restore
the dominions of the landgrave in the same condition they were in when
subdued by the French forces: that these dominions should be exempted
from all further contributions, either in money, corn, forage, wood, or
cattle, though already imposed on the subjects of Hesse; and the French
troops pay for all the provisions with which they might be supplied;
in which case the landgrave should exact no toll for warlike stores,
provisions, or other articles of that nature, which might pass through
his dominions: that the king of France should guarantee all his estates,
all the rights of the house of Hesse-Cassel, particularly the act of
assurance signed by his son, the hereditary prince, with regard to
religion;