xpected."

{GEORGE II. 1727-1760}

THE KING OF ENGLAND'S MEMORIAL.

We have already hinted at a decree of the Aulic council of the empire,
published in the month of August, enjoining all directors of circles,
all imperial towns, and the noblesse of the empire, to transmit to
Vienna an exact list of all those who had disobeyed the avocatoria
of the empire, and adhered to the rebellion raised by the elector of
Brandenburgh; that their revenues might be sequestered, and themselves
punished in their honours, persons, and effects. As the elector of
Hanover was plainly pointed out, and, indeed, expressly mentioned in
this decree, the king of Great Britain, by the hands of baron Gemmegen,
his electoral minister, presented a memorial to the diet of the empire
in the month of November, enumerating the instances in which he
exerted himself, and even exposed his life, for the preservation and
aggrandizement of the house of Austria. In return for these important
services, he observed, that the empress-queen had refused him the
assistance stipulated in treaties against an invasion planned by
France, whose hatred he had drawn upon himself by his friendship to
that princess; and his imperial majesty even denied him the dictatorial
letters which he solicited; that the court of Vienna had signed a treaty
with the crown of France, in which it was stipulated that the French
troops should pass the Weser, and invade the electorate of Hanover,
where they were joined by the troops of the empress-queen, who ravaged
his Britannic majesty's dominions with greater cruelty than even the
French had practised; and the same duke of Cumberland, who had been
wounded at Dettingen in the defence of her imperial majesty, was obliged
to fight at Hastenbeck against the troops of that very princess,
in defence of his father's dominions; that she sent commissaries to
Hanover, who shared with the crown of France the contributions extorted
from that electorate; rejected all proposals of peace, and dismissed
from her court the minister of Brunswick-Lunenbourg; that his imperial
majesty, who had sworn to protect the empire, and oppose the entrance
of foreign troops destined to oppress any of the states of Germany,
afterwards required the king of England to withdraw his troops from the
countries which they occupied, that the French army might again have
free passage into his German dominions; that the emperor had recalled
these troops, released them from