ho supported this representation by the
guarantee of his Danish majesty, gives his consent; and his royal
highness the duke of Cumberland engages to cause fifteen battalions and
six squadrons to pass the Elbe, and the whole body of hunters, and the
remaining ten battalions and twenty-eight squadrons shall be placed
in the town of Stade, and the places nearest to it that are within the
line, which shall be marked by posts from the mouth of the Liche in the
Elbe, to the mouth of the Elmerbeck in the river Oste; provided always,
that the said ten battalions and twenty-eight squadrons shall be
quartered there as they are at the time of signing this convention, and
shall not be recruited under any pretext, or augmented in any case; and
this clause is particularly guaranteed by the count de Lynar in the name
of his Danish majesty.

III. Upon the representation of his royal highness the duke of
Cumberland, that the army and the detached corps cannot both retire
under Stade in eight-and-forty hours, agreeable to the convention, his
excellency the mareschal duke de Richelieu hath signified, that he will
grant them proper time, provided the corps encamped at Buck Schantz, as
well as the army encamped at Bremen-worden, begin their inarch to
retire in four-and-twenty hours after signing the convention. The time
necessary for other arrangements, and the execution of the
articles concerning the respective limits, shall be settled between
lieutenant-general Sporcken, and the marquis de Villemar, first
lieutenant-general of the king's army. Done, &c]

[Footnote 433: Note 3 L, p. 433. The letter, which was written in
French, we have translated for the reader's satisfaction:--"I am
informed that the design of a treaty of neutrality for the electorate of
Hanover is not yet laid aside. Is it possible that your majesty can
have so little fortitude and constancy, as to be dispirited by a small
reverse of fortune? Are affairs so ruinous that they cannot be repaired?
I hope your majesty will consider the step you have made me hazard,
and remember that you are the sole cause of these misfortunes that
now impend over my head. I should never have abandoned the alliance of
France, but for your flattering assurances. I do not now repent of the
treaty I have concluded with your majesty: but I expect you will not
ingloriously leave me at the mercy of my enemies, after having brought
upon me all the force of Europe. I depend upon your adhering to y