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the resolution of not carrying it 

 into effect. 



The undersigned would not, how- 

 ever, think he had executed his 

 duty, should he neglect to represent 

 to his excellency the lively alarms 

 which necessarily result from the 

 uncertainty in which the afl'air 

 remains. The reiterated assurances 

 which the undersigned has received 

 from his excellency of the friendship 

 and good wishes of his Prussian 

 majesty towards the king of Great 

 Britain, do not allow him to believe 

 that any misunderstanding can arise 

 between the two courts; but he 

 cannot avoid thinking that the 

 enemies of humanity and of public 

 tranquillity will endeavour to turn 

 to their purposes the alarm which 



I is generally diffused, in order to 

 scatter discord among the powers, 

 who should all unite to maintain 



I the safety and independence of 



\ Europe at large. 



(Signed) Carysfort. 



Answer of Count Havgwitz. 



The undersigned minister of state, 

 and of the cabinet, is suthorised, 

 by the orders of the king, to tran- 

 quillize completely the anxieties and 

 apprehensions which my lord Carys- 

 fort, envoy extraordinary and mi- 

 nister plenipotentiary of his Britan- 

 nic majesty, expressed to him in his 

 two notes of the l6th and 18th of 

 November. The Prussian vessel, 

 the Triton, has, it is true, been re- 

 stored to its owner ; but the mode 

 of release was in every respect as 

 irregular as the proceedings which 

 had previously taken place with re- 

 spect to it; and after an examination 

 t)f all the circumstances relative to 

 the incident which forms the sub- 

 ject of complaint, there appears 



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throughout the whole a manifest 

 infraction of the principles of the 

 neutrality of the north of Germany. 

 It is this superior consideration, 

 added to the unjust 'refusal of the 

 magistracy of Hamburgh, which 

 dictated to the king the resolution 

 of causing a body of his troops to 

 occupy the port of Cuxhaven and 

 the bailiwick of Ritzebuttel. This 

 measure was executed the moment 

 it was determined upon, and it is 

 no longer capable of being re- 

 voked; the example of what has 

 taken place imposing on his ma- 

 jesty the necessity of effectually 

 watching over the maintenance of 

 that neutrality which he has gua- 

 ranteed to his co-estates. The king 

 cannot imagine that his Britannic 

 majesty, after participating, in his 

 character of elector of HanoVer, in 

 the advantages and benefits of this 

 happy neutrality, can conceive the 

 smallest alarm at seeing a Prussian 



farrison enter into the port which 

 England has fixed on as her point 

 of communication with the north 

 of Germany. Being thus placed 

 under the immediate guarantee of 

 the king, it will be the more effec- 

 tually put out of the reach of all 

 violation, and the troops of his 

 majesty will have no other duty 

 to perform than that of causing the 

 laws of good order and equality to 

 be respected. The utmost confi- 

 dence may be placed in the pru- 

 dent dispositions of the reigning 

 duke of Brunswick, who is invested 

 with the command of the line of 

 demarcation. 



But if more particular assurances 

 be requisite upon this subject, the 

 king feels a pleasure in giving them 

 by the present communication to 

 his Britannic majesty, and in de- 

 claring to him, in express and posi- 

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