been pleased to offer his
mediation in the war which had subsisted for some years between France
and England; and this war having besides nothing in common with that
which the two empresses, with their allies, have likewise carried on for
some years against the king of Prussia;

"His most Christian majesty is ready to treat of his particular peace
with England, through the good offices of his Catholic majesty, whose
mediation he has a pleasure in accepting;

"As to the war which regards directly his Prussian majesty, their
majesties, the empress queen of Hungary and Bohemia, the empress of all
the Russias, and the most Christian king, are disposed to agree to the
appointing the congress proposed. But as, by virtue of their treaties,
they cannot enter into any engagement relating to peace but in
conjunction with their allies, it will be necessary, in order that they
may be enabled to explain themselves definitively upon that subject,
that their Britannic and Prussian majesties should previously be pleased
to cause their invitation to a congress to be made to all the powers
that are directly engaged in war against the king of Prussia; and
namely, to his majesty the king of Poland, elector of Saxony, as
likewise to his majesty the king of Sweden, who ought specifically to be
invited to the future congress."]

[Footnote 561: Note 4 O, p. 561. _Copy of a Letter from the marquis of
Granby to the earl of Holdernesse._ My Lord, It is with the greatest
satisfaction that I have the honour of acquainting your lordship of the
success of the hereditary prince yesterday morning.

General Sporcken's corps marched from the camp at Kalle to Liebenau,
about four in the afternoon of the twenty-ninth; the hereditary prince
followed the same evening with a body of troops, among which were the
two English battalions of grenadiers, the two of Highlanders, and four
squadrons of dragoons, Cope's and Conway's.

The army was under arms all day on the thirtieth, and about eleven at
night marched off, in six columns, to Liebenau. About five the next
morning, the whole army be assembled, and formed on the heights near
Corbeke. The hereditary prince was, at this time, marching in two
columns, in order to turn the enemy's left flank; which he did by
marching to Donhelbourg, leaving Klein-Eder on his left, and forming in
two lines, with the left towards Dossel, and his right near Grimbeck,
opposite to the left flank of the enemy, whose position