Hijiorical Chronicle. 



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him. The refolution which 

 you have made in his favour is 

 worthy of your courage and of 

 your mr-snanimity, and worthy 

 of the fuccefTor of the great 

 Guftavus. For the fake of 

 peace, I have made fome im- 

 portant facrifices ; and I fhould 

 be willing to make much grea- 

 ter, in bringing effedtually to 

 bear your glorious undertak- 

 ing. I fhall conlider the day 

 on which I hear that Louis 

 has recovered his authority and 

 his prerogatives, and has for- 

 given his enemies, as the hap- 

 pieft of my life." 



The Emprefs of Ruffia has 

 ifTucd orders for difbanding the 

 major part of her Afiatic for- 

 ces, and for fending them home. 

 Each man, exclufive of his 

 pay, is to have a certain 

 quantity of agricultural imple- 

 ments, by which means it is 

 hoped that the at prefent bar- 

 ren dcfarts of Siberia will be 

 cultivated on the return of the 

 peafantry, who have been in 

 ibme degree civilized, by vifit- 

 ing the more wellern and fou- 

 thern climes. 



Their Imperial Majefties din- 

 ed on the 31ft of Augult at 

 Liebau, a fhort diftance from 

 Prague ; and afterwards made 

 their entry, being attended by 

 S9 ftate-caachcs, 550 horfes, 

 and 800 fcrvants and officers 

 in gala-liveries, where he was 

 crowned King of Bohemia. 



His Imperial Majcfty has re- 

 eftablifhed the government of 

 the Auftriari low countries, on 

 the fame footingasit was con- 

 dudted in the time of his mo- 

 ther, the En?prefs Maria Thc- 

 rcfa. ' 



The King of Pruffia has con 

 chided a commercial treaty be- 

 tween Pruffia and the United 

 States of x\mcrica, and M. Pa- 

 lelke, a refp-'(flab!e merchant 

 at Philadelphia, is appointed 

 his Mnjefty's Conful General. 

 It is laid that he is to nropofe a 

 treaty of alliarice between the 

 two countries, fothat the Pruf- 

 fian manufa(ftures maybe im- 

 ported into America under 

 great advantages. 



The following was proclaim- 

 ed at Madrid, on Saturday the 

 27th ult. by the Supreme Coun- 

 cil of War, in all the fquares 

 and public places of that capi- 

 tal : 



Declaration of War by the 

 King of Spain againfl the 

 Emperor of Morocco. 



The good harmony in which, 

 tlie King, my father, of glori- 

 ous memory, .lived with the 

 late King of Morocco, Muley 

 Mohamet, during his reign, is 

 notorious, more efpecially fince 

 1780, w^hen that Monarch fent 

 an Ambaflador to Madrid, to 

 confirm and renew the peace 

 which had been broken in 1774, 

 without any fault on the part 

 of Spain. 



It is equally notorious, that 

 I myfelf preserved the fame 

 harmony with that Prince un- 

 til! his death ; nor is it lefs 

 public, that his fucceflor, Mu- 

 ley Eliazit, at his advancement 

 to the throne, teftified his de- 

 fire to fign a treaty of peace 

 with me, &c. 



After the above preamble, 

 the following are alligneJ as 

 the fpecitic caufes of the war : 



I. The eftablijhments of 

 troops as the advanced pofts 



