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world, that whatever sacrifices the 
precent circumstances may induce 
him to make with respect to his 
own territories, he will not set the 
dreadful example of indemnifying 
himself at the expence of a thivd 
party, whose sentiments and con- 
‘duct towards his Prussian majesty 
and his subjeéts, have been uniform- 
ly friendly and pacific. 
Downing-street, March 17, 1806. 
(Translation of No. IV.—Note 
Verbale. 
Until the explosion of the last 
eontinental war, his Prussian ma- 
jesty had no other object in view, 
than to secure the tranquillity of 
his monarchy, and that of theneigh- 
bouring states. 
He was then able to effect this 
upon terms which met the entire 
approbation of every court. He 
has been desirous of doing the same 
since the breaking out of the pre- 
sent war. But the choice of the 
means has no longer been in his 
power. © France has considered 
Hanover as her conquest, and her 
troops were on the point of entering 
it, for the purpose of disposing of 
it definitively, according to the 
pleasure of the French emperor, 
without the possibility of his Bri- 
tannic majesty preventing it. © 
The ocenpation of that country by 
his Prussian majesty,and the shutting 
of the ports in the German Seas, and 
that of Lubeck, against the British 
flag (as was the case during the pos- 
session of Hanover by the French) 
were the indispensible conditions of 
an arrangement by which the coun- 
try is secured against the entry of 
* See No. [V.in the preceding Article. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
foreign troops, and the quiet of the 
north of Germany preserved. 
This has not been obtained with- 
out painful sacrifices on his majes- 
ty’s part. ‘Those of the house of 
Hanover are in no degree to be at- 
tributed to the king’s measures, but 
are the inevitable consequences of 
a war, Which his conciliating policy 
has eudeavoured in vain to prevent. 
This war might have produced still 
more serious consequences. ‘The 
treaty between Prussia and France, 
at least protects the northern states 
from farther evils, and could every 
power but duly appreciate how 
much they are indebted to the sys- 
tem he has adopted, the king would 
with justice obtain the gratitude of 
all. ‘ 
No. V.—Proclamation of Count 
Schulenburg, announcing the shut- 
ting of the Ports of the North 
Sea, against the British Ships and | 
Trade, dated Hanover, the 28th 
of March, 1806, 
Declaration. 
George the Third, by the grace of 
God, of the united kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, king, 
defender of the faith, duke of 
Brunswick and  Lunenburgh, 
arch-treasurer and elector of the 
holy Roman empire, &c. &c. 
The court of Prussia has avowed 
those ‘hostile designs, which she 
thought to conceal by her friendly 
professions, ‘ 
The Note Verbale *, delivered on 
the 4th of April by the Prussian 
envoy, baron Jacobi Kloest, to the 
British 
