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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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King George III of Great Britain writes a congratulatory letter to the newly elected King of Poland on October 9, 1764, praising the peaceful election and expressing friendship. Reported in London on December 8.
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Dec. 8. The following is a translation of a letter, which (as we are assured from Poland by this day's Holland mail) has been written by the King of Great-Britain to his Polish Majesty:
"SIR,
IT was with great satisfaction that I learnt by your own letter the agreeable news, that your Majesty had been elected King and possessor of the throne of Poland. An election made so peaceably and so unanimously, must one day enrich the annals of that kingdom; and your subjects have the greatest reason to promise themselves every thing from their sovereign, who, in his private travels, having seen the different courts of Europe, and made himself acquainted with them, will consequently be the better enabled as a King to conduct his subjects, to watch over their preservation, and to defend their laws and their liberties.
The pleasure I feel in recollecting the esteem which I conceived for you in private, increases that which I now have to congratulate your Majesty on your advancement to the throne; and I take this opportunity, with great fervency, to assure your Majesty of the sincere friendship with which I am, Sir your good Friend & Brother,
(Signed) GEORGE R.
St. James's 9th of October 1764."
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Poland
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9th Of October 1764
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peaceful and unanimous election of the king of poland; assurance of sincere friendship from the king of great britain.
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The King of Great Britain expresses satisfaction at the election of the Polish Majesty, praises the peaceful and unanimous nature of the election, notes the new king's familiarity with European courts from private travels, and congratulates him on his advancement to the throne while assuring sincere friendship.