desired to take notice, &c.

_On the 22nd of June._ We invite and desire that the nobility,
archbishops, bishops, abbeys, convents, seignories, magistrates, and
inhabitants of the republic of Poland, on the road to Posnania, and
beyond it, would repair in person or by deputies, in the course of this
week, or as soon after as possible, to the Prussian head-quarters, there
to treat with the commander-in-chief, or the commissary at war, for the
delivery of forage and provisions for the subsistence of the army, to be
paid for with ready money.

We promise and assure ourselves that no person in Poland will attempt to
seduce the Prussian troops to desert; that no assistance will be given
them in such perfidious practices; that they will neither be sheltered,
concealed, nor lodged; which would be followed by very disagreeable
consequences: we expect, on the contrary, that persons of all ranks and
conditions will stop any runaway or deserter, and deliver him up at the
first advanced post, or at the head-quarters; and all expenses attending
the same shall be paid, and a reasonable gratification superadded.

If any one hath inclination to enter into the king of Prussia's service,
with an intention to behave well and faithfully, he may apply to the
head-quarters, and be assured of a capitulation for three or four years.

If any prince or member of the republic of Poland be disposed to
assemble a body of men, and to join in a troop or in a company of
the Prussian army, to make a common cause with it, he may depend on a
gracious reception, and that due regard will be shown to his merit, &c.]

[Footnote 526: Note 4 E, p. 526. The obstinacy of the powers in
opposition to Great Britain and Prussia appeared still more remarkable
in their slighting the following declaration, which duke Louis of
Brunswick delivered to their ministers at the Hague, in the month of
December, after Quebec was reduced, and the fleet of France totally
defeated:

"Their Britannic and Prussian majesties, moved with compassion at the
mischief which the war that has been kindled for some years has already
occasioned, and must necessarily produce, would think themselves wanting
to the duties of humanity, and particularly to their tender concern
for the preservation and well-being of their respective kingdoms and
subjects, if they neglected the proper means to put a stop to
the progress of so severe a calamity, and to contribute to the
re-establishment of p