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Minifter of the Elector of Brunfwick Luneburg, 

 and in whom the Senate of Aiigfburg has only 

 acknowledged that title in its decree of the 11th 

 of March i794> which is here fubjoined. 



*■ You have then done wrong to afTume the 

 quality of Minifter of his Britannic Majefty, as 

 in the get done at Augfburg the nth of Decem- 

 ber 1793, of which I fend you a faithful extract. 

 It is not then by this title that you can have any 

 authority over me. 



" Was it as being authorized by his Britan- 

 nic Majefty ? But how could you have the im- 

 pudence to make the aflertion ? When you know 

 that the real Minifter of the Court of Great 

 Britain, at Ratift^on, has declared that his Court 

 has not demanded my arreftation, and that the 

 King has no fubject of complaint againrt me. 



** 2dly. Suppofing you to have been invefted 

 with all the titles which you have had the pre- 

 fumption to arrogate to yourfelf, did my con- 

 duct merit fuch hard treatment on your part? 

 The flattering teftimonials and honourable em- 

 ployment which have been beftowed on me by 

 the Princes, under whofe ftandards I have fer- 

 ved, fufficiently vindicate my actions. 



*' I will not here fpeak of my campaigns in the 

 fervice of Ruftia, nor of thofe I made in Ame- 

 rica, in the army of his Britannic Majefty, my 

 Sovereign ; but I fpeak of the manner in which I 



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