-1801.] 
pent of his willfulnefs in cafe he fhould 
refufe it. 
“‘Fieht or tenn days ago theNiefter over- 
flowed its banks to ee degree, that the 
king with all his followers were oblig’d 
to quit their houfes (which are now en- 
tirely ruin’d) and encamp under a village, 
which lyes balfan Buglith mile from Ben- 
der, by which it-appears that the very 
‘Turkith elements are tired of us and will 
have us fram hence.” 
“¢ SacreRegieMajefatisrefponfum ad Ii- 
bellum memorialem Armigeri et Minittri 
fereniffime regine Magne Britanniz de 
4 Jefferyes, literis fiduciariis et mandatis 
pariter inftruétia fereniffimo Romanorum 
imperatore et celfis ac prepotentibus Or- 
dinibus Generalibus Uniti Belgii, die 28 
Aprilis, A® 7:3, in cattris ad urben 
Benderam oblatum. 
i,—Quod alté memorate fumme potef- 
tates fibi curz effe oftendant pacem in Sep- 
temtrione inter partes belligerantes recon- 
ciliari, lubens percipit Saca: Reg, : Ma- 
jeftas, earumque officia ad eam rem per- 
ficiendam perquam grata fibi futura effe 
declarat : fed et juxta defiderat, ut in tam 
arduo negotio ultra verba procedatur ab 
ipfis fponhonun pactorum religione eb- 
Jigatis ad opem -fereniam  hoftesque, 
praser Czarum Moicovie ¢: cum quo nulla 
amicitia reftitui poreft, nifi qua nexu {uo 
Portum Ottomanicum fimul comprehen- 
dat:) ad equas pacis conditiones adigen- 
dos. : 
Quantacumque enim fuerint amica ip- 
forum officia in reconcilianda pace, longe 
tamen efficacior futura erit eoru.n opera, fi 
ex focderum legibus vim repre‘entare ve- 
lint cxteris hoitibus. 
ii.--Quz ad confervandam tuendamque 
Germanie tranquillitatem Hagze-cemitum 
anno fuperiore a confederatis poteftatibus 
fancita: funt, nullo quidem fibi nocendi 
propofito facta efte credit Sacra Regia 
Majeltas ; Quoniam autem decretum iftad 
mala (ipfo infcio et invito initum) ipfi 
multa, hoftibus vero plurima commoda, 
adfert: per Miniftros fuos bis, et tertia 
demum vice, {cripto Regio fua manu fig- 
nato declaravit, fe illius legibus nequa- 
quam teneri pofle aut velle. In qua fen- 
tentia Sacra Regia Majeltas perfittit. 
ii.—Quz juffu et mandato Majeftatis 
Britanniz Domine fuze clementiflime et 
Dominorum Ordinum Generalinm Uniti 
Belgii propofuerat Armiger Jeffereyes, de 
inoffenfa libertate navigandi et commer- 
candi in portubus ad Mare Balticum a 
Czaro occupatis, talia effe judicat Sacra 
Regia Majeftas ut cum tenore Trafatus 
Monruiy Mag, No. 77. 
From the Port-Felio of a Méan of Letters. 
129 
Commerciorum ac recepto apud amicas 
genies ulu haud qvaquam  conhitere 
poffunt ; atque proinde confit fereaifli- 
mam Magne: Britannie Reginam atque 
celfos -et preepoteutes Ordines Generales 
uniti Belgii, amicos et confederatos fuos, 
non amplius defideraturos rem tam nox. 
ain fibi tamque fructuofam hoftibus fuis 
quam utigue Sacra Regia Majeftas reu- 
tiquam concedere poteit, preieitim poft- 
quam per Miniftros fuos ad aulas ipforum 
refidentes notumn fecerar, mandata abs fe 
dudum data effe coll [ee aminiralitatis ut 
claffem ad omnes ifios portus ab hofte 
captes claudendos, aréléque obfidendos 
miuttat. 
Quam benevolam Sacra Regiz Majefta- 
tis mentem Armiger de Jeflereyes decen- 
ter renunciandam ‘habet ; ; cui de tero ipfa 
femper manet faventiffima. 
Dat : ad Urbem Benderam die 2 Menfis 
Maij An° 1711. Admanditum, 
H. G. DE MULLERN. 
ACADEMIC FLATTERY. 
Clermont Tonnere, bithop of Noyon, a 
man ridiculous for his attachment. te high 
birth, gave an annual prize to the French 
Academy, to be beftowed on the bef po- 
etical compofition; but the only fubjeé& 
to be treated of was the praife of Louis 
XIV. After all the ordinary topics of 
adulation had been exhauited, the Aca- 
demy propofed, for the year 1700, the fol- 
lowing text for the prize-poem: ‘* That 
the king poffeffes all the virtues in fo 
eminent a degree, that it is impoflible to 
judge by which Le - emir he is principally 
charaéterifed.”” Thdh this topic was 
fhewn to the Gee. fot his approbation, 
(for this was always -done previcufly to 
its being given out; and his Majelty, 
moreover, fat to hear the piece recited) 
enured as he was to flattery, he felt that 
it was rather too much, and put his nega- 
tive upon it. The Academy then, by ad 
vice of the bifhop, let it down a little in 
the following manner: ‘¢ That the king 
unites in his perfon fo many great quali- 
ties, that it is dificult to judge which 
forms his principal charaéter.”’ Even this 
qualified defe of incenfe proved too {trong 
for his Majefty’s relifhs The Academy 
and bifhop, almoft reduced to defpair, 
tremblingly propofed thetr third edition : 
‘* That the king is not lefs dikinguifhed 
by the virtues of a man of worth, than by 
thofe of a great prince.” This luckily 
did not dion the monarch’s modefty, 
and he fuffered it to pafs without fur- 
ther alteration. 
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