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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Prussian envoy Baron Knyphausen delivered an offensive memorial to Lord Halifax protesting Britain's separate peace, violating the 1756 Convention by not restoring Prussian Lower Rhine provinces and allowing Austrian control.
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London: It is assured, that the Baron Knyphausen, the King of Prussia's Envoy, has, within these few days delivered to Lord Halifax, Secretary of State, a memorial, couched in terms that have given offence to the Court. It is pretended the Prussian minister sets forth in it, That the King his Master, and the late K. George II having bound themselves by the Convention of 1756, to make no peace nor truce, but in concert, his Prussian Majesty was surprised that the British Ministry should act contrary to this engagement; that he was the more surprised, as the Convention aforesaid has been renewed more than once during the present war, that England, in the separate peace he has made: instead of insisting that the provinces on the Lower Rhine, belonging to his Prussian Majesty, should be restored to him, had consented that they should be put into the hands of the Austrians, &c.
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memorial couched in terms that have given offence to the court
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Baron Knyphausen, the King of Prussia's Envoy, delivered a memorial to Lord Halifax, Secretary of State, setting forth surprise at the British Ministry's separate peace contrary to the Convention of 1756, which bound the King of Prussia and late King George II to make no peace or truce without concert, renewed during the present war; instead of insisting on restoration of Prussian provinces on the Lower Rhine, England consented to their handover to the Austrians.